Easing into TdF 26 with #1 of World of Wool’s Golden Fleece – A Spinning Mystery! I still have one bobbin to clear to have a full set free, but whaddever.
For your delectation, I just have pics of the stash I’m hoping to spin (big basket) and some extras in case I blitz right through that (small basket). Sorry the fibre is mostly bagged up but it’s monsoon season here in Darkest Ireland…
On the top layer of the picnic basket, we have World of Wool’s TdF offering, Golden Fleece – a Spinning Mystery (unopened black boxes), and about 150g of WoW Something Fishy (Corrie/Sari) from their 2025 Advent Calendar. There’s also 50g of Something Fishy already spun up beforehand.
This is a bit of a departure for me. Normally, I just spin the fibre as it comes, and end up with fairly fine singles. But this blend of pink Corriedale and beige sari silk absolutely would not cooperate. The result is that the fine Corriedale single is interrupted by lumps and clots of sari. I’m surprisingly okay with this. I am thinking of breaking out the drum carder to blend the remaining 150g better. Maybe one run-through for the first 50g, 2 for the second, and 3 for the third, so I have a gradation?? I also found a John Arbon Knit By Numbers shade, KBN017, which is identical:
I might attempt a texture fade (rather than a colour fade) with this and the KBN. I’ll think more on that.
Then, to the bottom layer. Here we have John Arbon Knit By Numbers 74 ‘Burgundy’ (Merino, 200g) and
Devonia ‘Furbelows’, a mix of black and green (50% Exmoor Blueface / 30% Bluefaced Leicester / 20% Romney, 200g); World of Wool’s Indulgent collection, Apple Pie (white with bits of green), Rhubarb Crumble (coral), Eton Mess (red), and Tart (pinkish purple and blue) (Polwarth with nepps, 200g ea); and as palate cleansers, 50g each of WoW Irish top in black, and Polwarth tops in white and grey. I spun up some WoW Indulgent Spotted Dick earlier this year (not pictured) and absolutely loved it so I had to get the rest.
The backpack basket contains the fibre I might get to if I spin REALLY fast, otherwise it’s scheduled for the Tour Des Femmes and/or La Vuelta. 800g of World of Wool ‘Cover Girl’ (37.5% Merino / 37.5% Bamboo / 12.5% Red Eri Silk/ 12.5% Wool & Viscose Nepps), a peachy-pinky blend with touches of green that just scream “summer top”;
and 4 space-dyed braids from Steph’s Crafty Bits on Etsy AGAIN, after she persuaded me to buy a blue (bleurgh!) braid last year. There’s a lovely purple and green 100% Polwarth braid that reminds me of crocuses, another in shades of green, an autumnal green and yellow 100% Falkland Merino braid, and another Polwarth braid in reds and blues (bleurgh!). I don’t know how she does it…
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