As part of tour de fleece, I'm spinning some of the little sample floofs I've picked up through the years. I wanted to put down some of my thoughts about them separately from my tour postings.
#1 a natural grey Dorset/Polypay blend from fiberculture.
It's very fluffy and lofty as fiber and had some little tweedy clumps in it. It did end up a bit thick and thin, but it plied up into the thinnest yarn I've ever been able to get on my wheel. Drafted very smoothly with my preferred short, forward draw and didn't require a lot of the fiber to bind together.
A lovely variegated grey, with darker hairs mixed in with the almost white ones to form a medium grey tone. The fiber looked more brownish grey before being spun, and more silvery grey after. I used an andean ply to ply it back on itself. I managed to get roughly 336 inches or just barely 9 yards of 2 ply yarn.
Took me about an hour to go from fluff to yarn. Weighs about 6 ish grams of finished yarn, and has a little fuzzy halo. It is slightly rough, more outwear than next to skin.
