Saturday, July 9, 2011

Tour de Fleece Day 8: On to the cashmere!

Now that the alpaca is spun and finished, on to two ounces of cashmere, raised locally at Goat Knoll Farm:


This will be a 2-ply, and I'm aiming for laceweight. We'll see if I hit it. The fiber is so short and fluffy that I'm using what I think is long draw, and it's harder for me to spin very fine that way.

1 comment:

Mereknits said...

I can feel the softness from here, beautiful.
Meredith

 

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