Here is the tropical bird from Knit a Square, Make a Toy in Nature Spun sport weight. Flattening him on the scanner didn't really do him justice so I'll get an actual photo soon. I changed his feet so he could be easily attached to something and he is now perched on my spinning wheel.

Three more ounces finished and only three more to go. I'll be glad to finally finish as I've lugged around the box containing the wool on two out-of-state moves so far. I haven't quite decided what I'm going to do with all the rainbow yarn yet.

Blogger is acting up today so photos will have to wait.



I only had some yarn to show anyway. Lately I'm doing more ripping than knitting but I assume this too will pass.

The core spinning experiment was a complete disaster. Then I consulted Diane Varney's Spinning Designer Yarns. "To prevent overtwist, spin the core yarn in the opposite direction to that in which it was originally spun (singles) or plied." DUH! That would have made much more sense. Well you live and you learn.







Steph sent me a really kind gift certificate from Adagio Teas as my Fiber Random Act of Kindness gift for the day. I urge everyone with a blog to join FiberRAOK - it really is fun to send out little surprises to others. That reminds me that I have a few knitting patterns on my desk I want to send out this week. And thanks again Steph!



I'll be back Sunday with a knitting project to show barring any further disasters.

I am blissed out spinning all this angora. One of the reasons I love rabbits is because of their softness so getting to handle all this bunny fur is really wonderful. I found two helpful articles online on spinning angora HERE and HERE. I am putting in more twist than normal and I do think I'll shock the skeins when I'm done. I also plan to try core spinning some of it.



The fur shown from foster rabbits Windy & Cloudy is just a tiny percentage of all the angora I now have. The scarf shown here is two yarns doubled - some Cascade Lana d'Oro wool/alpaca and some multi-colored roving blended with short hair bunny fur. It is shedding quite a bit so I may try to felt the scarf a bit to keep all the bunny fur from working its way loose.

I purchased some merino in various colors from Halcyon to blend with the bunny fur. So far my most successful effort involves spinning the angora as a single and the merino as a single and plying them together. (See purple yarn photo from yesterday). I'm re-thinking using their short hair bunny fur for spinning though - I can spin it but the fur doesn't stay in the yarn. Tomorrow I'll show you a scarf using the short hair blend.









I put a bunch of cardboard boxes under the bed to keep Peaches from going there. This of course has just created greater enthusiasm for her to go there and loudly rip up boxes usually at around 6 am. Here's the big brown rodent getting into mischief.

Here are two skeins of angora rabbit fur blended with wool spun using my spinning wheel. The skein on the left used fur from two foster rabbits, Windy & Cloudy. Apparently they find it difficult to adopt out angoras because of the extra care involved in grooming them. The Colorado HRS is going to sell these skeins in their Bunny Boutique at the Broomfield shelter.