Completed crochet beetroot bag.

This is my biggest spin yet! She’s 8 oz of Merino wool turned into a 348 yard, 11 WPI masterpiece! She has a few pig tails in her skein but I’m working with a drop spindle and nothing else at the moment so I’m incredibly proud of this yarn.

The mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is common in wetlands and urban areas and are known for their dabbling feeding style. The male, or drake, is striking with a glossy green head, white neck ring, chestnut-brown breast, blue wing markings, and yellow bill.

This is part of the British Birds on British Bluefaced Leicester limited edition series. These are the final four colourways, making 24 in all. I have enough yarn left to re-dye four only so please don’t miss out!

My first finished yarn from the first raw fleece I've processed! I spun this up while reading Morning Glory's Milking Farm. I'm a bit late to reading that one but I've been busy reading some really meh romantasy and wanting to get those books off my KU shelf. I'm bored with shadow daddies, honestly. 🥱 Or maybe I'm bored with the FMCs that come with shadow daddies.

Anyway...

50g of 2-ply Dorset (the sheep's name is Sadie), 526 yards. It was about 35wpi-ish before I fulled it, not sure if it's changed. Lasso'd and then dried under tension because it wanted to crinkle a little (can still see some of that in the photo) I have another 30g already combed and on the wheel.

I have 3lbs+ more to comb so I'll probably be spinning this paticular fleece the rest of my life. :P

My WPI wrapping skills are bad. So bad. This is 35 wraps, but I think I could have done more?

I'm used to Dorset that is very matte, but this fleece has an almost pearly sheen to it. It's hard to photograph, but it's so pretty when the light hits it.

I would have liked to spin it finer, and the wool would have gone for it, but the wheel I used has hooks on the opposite sides of the flyer arms, so cross-lacing requires wrapping around the flyer arms. The arms arn't rounded off. So anything finer than this simply snapped no matter what I did.

I think the next batch I'm going to blend it with 15% mulberry silk to increase luster, drape, and maybe strength so I can spin it finer without it snapping.