I just had to share the bounty- fiber score of my life.


20 alpaca fleeces, and 10 baby alpaca fleeces, all clean and no pesticides used and the best part is that they are LOCAL and I made a friend with the farmer lady, and 85 year old woman who is an inspiration.
She hasn't spun since '89 after the earthquake broke her wheel. I am going to go back up there and spin with her and bring my Louet and do some art yarns..... she was over the moon.

What a wonderful birthday present from my mom....


My car swimming in a sea of fluffy love:





I spun up a yarn with the natural black ( my favorite fiber ever!) baby alpaca tonight....it was way softer than the softest merino....le sigh

Back to my wheel! We had a major storm and power outage that got me off my computer and back on my wheel.
I decided to work with the pounds of raw fleece from the Monterey Fleece Auction that I attended (and overspent at) this summer. White is easier to see in the dark.....

So here is what I carded up...

Soft white Romney locks, these were especially soft for Romney and provide a nice base to the batt when mixed with the shorter fibers of Targhee. The Targhee was a dirty little fleece when I got it, but is was the only one so I put in the elbow grease to get it scoured. It turned out really nice after 3 washings. I carded these two fleeces with some organic bamboo that I scored locally.

For fun I did a couple batts with some Champion Black Merino that won all the awards at the show, was the most expensive fleece per pound, but I couldn't let those old ladies have it!! Auctions can be scary....you forget what is going on and are just determined to win. But this fleece is SUPER soft, and I split the poundage with my aunt so it cut down on the price, which I will not repeat outloud.....lol!

I also snuck in some brown alpaca from a dear female alpaca that died this summer. Sad story, she died and then her son died. Her name was Nutmeg and her son was Hank... :(
Now that you know the details of this fleece you can see why it is so much more fun to process your own and buy locally from people who treat their animals well and don't use chemical. Plus it costs SO much less. I love it.

So I then spun two singles from these handcarded batts with some tailspun locks of romney and some polka dot bows spun, not tied into the single. I then plyed it onto itself and voila, we have Parisian Twist.

This yarn is for sale at my shop:

http://www.atomHEART.etsy.com

and was submitted to the Yarn Museum's Current White Show... check them out!

http://yarnmuseum.com/gallery_shows_changing/white_gallery.html