It’s been a while since I’ve done a Fiber Friday so here we go. First up are some scrappy coils that I spun last Friday but never posted. This is different wools, Llama, Alpaca, Mohair, Nylon, Soy Silk, I don’t even know what else. This was a bunch of waste from using my hackle (fibers that are very short or too tangled to be pulled off the tines) that I carded and spun thick and thin and then coiled on some crochet cotton. I think there’s five or six yards here, coils take a ton of fiber but I love the way they look.
And this is the white corn fiber (plus a gray cat hair that I didn’t notice until I was editing the picture). You can kind of see in the picture how fuzzy this stuff is, it sheds everywhere, but it has a touch of sheen and is a nice bright white. I did try to blend this with some wool but it just clumped up and was too hard to spin. Spinning it alone is a chore with it shedding and breaking, that short staple length takes a bit of getting used to, but I think I’ve got the hang of it now. I’m pulling clumps of fiber out of my bag and spinning long draw, treadling the wheel pretty fast and putting a ton of twist in it. I’m close to filling my second bobbin now and there’s still about three quarters of the first bag left, each bag is about ten ounces.
I’ve got a serious case of wanderlust lately. My evenings have been spent plugging the names of random cities into Priceline and seeing how much a short vacation would cost. I had no idea plane tickets were so high, I haven’t flown in about eight years, I think. I did find that I can fly to Ireland cheaper than I can fly to Washington, DC, which is a little fucked up, and I can fly to Peru cheaper than Toronto. Of course, I can’t afford to fly anywhere right now (I’d have to wait to get a passport anyway, I’ve been out of the country but I never needed one before) and I would just jump in the car and head out for a weekend or so, if I had a car. I hate this feeling that I’m stuck here but I am, at least I’m being honest with myself. This stuck feeling is really contributing, if not the cause, of this funk that I’m in. It will pass soon enough, it always does.
