I must admit to being extremely thankful for the technology that brings together like-minded souls via the Internet and e-mail lists. Thanks to the Yahoo group "traditionalknitting" I have a source for North Ronaldsay roving - from a woman who lives in Orkney. SWEET! And she has reasonable prices - given that the North Ronaldsay is not a world-wide ( Read more... )

Well, this past weekend was a bit of a blur - at least on Saturday ( Read more... )

Well, I had an interesting weekend ( Read more... )

Wheee! Ok, now that's out of the way....
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Anyone know of a source for Soay wool that would be willing to send me a sample?

For some information on the Soay breed.

Ok, so to please Cori ;) I actually took some pictures of my 'mystery fiber' that Mom gave me. As I said before, I'm getting the suspicion that this is actually mohair, but I'm not sure.

So yeah, anyway...the pictures of "the pretty!"

In the beginning was "The Umbilical Roving" (it's still there, just less of it by a little bit)...

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So, I started spinning the umbilical roving - in lace weight no less. This is using the smallest whorl on my wheel, which gives me a ratio of I *think* 20 or 23:1. And it looks gorgeous!!!! I'm so pleased with it so far. At the moment, I only have about half a bobbin full, but part of that is because I keep stopping every so often (ok, when I have ( Read more... )

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