Fleece to Wool
April 16th 2008 04:26
I’m looking for a spinner. Someone who likes to take the lovely soft fleece from my alpacas and turn it into beautiful, hand-spun wool to be knitted into comfy, warm things to wear in the winter time.
I’ve tried spinning and I’m hopeless. I simply don’t have the skills or the patience to learn it. If I do persevere long enough, I just end up with knobbly lengths of string with thick bits and extraordinarily thin bits and lots of lumps and bumps in-between.
My Mum spins, knits, sews, crochets, felts, you name it. She tried to teach me to knit when I was young, but I could never get the hang of that either. Sewing class at school was diabolical (the same girls got to use the few sewing machines each week – and I wasn’t one of those girls).
I still have a few fleeces here from shearing last November. My Mum takes the ones she wants to spin herself and I’ve sold some of them.
I get lots of people who don’t spin, but want to buy alpaca wool to knit, so it would be good to find someone who can spin the fleeces up. Mum doesn’t think her spinning is good enough – I do – but I think she also wants to just do a bit of spinning here and there, not to feel like she has to do it, which is fair enough, she’s trying to retire.
A while ago, I sent a lot of fleece off to be commercially spun and it’s lovely, but I’d like some hand-spun wool because it is different and so much nicer than the mass produced stuff.
Perhaps there’s someone out there who likes to spin. I could provide the fleece, they could provide the skill and we’ll go halves in the lovely wool. It would have to be someone local though, it costs a fortune to post anything these days and alpaca fleeces are pretty bulky too. I might post an ad on the notice board up at the shop. See what happens.
From pacas...
I’ve tried spinning and I’m hopeless. I simply don’t have the skills or the patience to learn it. If I do persevere long enough, I just end up with knobbly lengths of string with thick bits and extraordinarily thin bits and lots of lumps and bumps in-between.
My Mum spins, knits, sews, crochets, felts, you name it. She tried to teach me to knit when I was young, but I could never get the hang of that either. Sewing class at school was diabolical (the same girls got to use the few sewing machines each week – and I wasn’t one of those girls).
to fleece ...
I still have a few fleeces here from shearing last November. My Mum takes the ones she wants to spin herself and I’ve sold some of them.
I get lots of people who don’t spin, but want to buy alpaca wool to knit, so it would be good to find someone who can spin the fleeces up. Mum doesn’t think her spinning is good enough – I do – but I think she also wants to just do a bit of spinning here and there, not to feel like she has to do it, which is fair enough, she’s trying to retire.
to wool ...
A while ago, I sent a lot of fleece off to be commercially spun and it’s lovely, but I’d like some hand-spun wool because it is different and so much nicer than the mass produced stuff.
Perhaps there’s someone out there who likes to spin. I could provide the fleece, they could provide the skill and we’ll go halves in the lovely wool. It would have to be someone local though, it costs a fortune to post anything these days and alpaca fleeces are pretty bulky too. I might post an ad on the notice board up at the shop. See what happens.
to nice, warm clothes.
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Just took my paca doona to the drycleaners so it's ready for winter. Now all I need are some winter paca woollies and I'll be set.