This year I resolve to branch out and try new fibers.
As much as I love Shetland and Romney and Border Leicester,,, I feel as though I should probably try my hand at some other spinnables.
Does that mean I will be forsaking wool and spinning things like cotton (eeks!) and silk (gasp!) ?
Heck no.
I will be seeking out fleeces from different breeds of sheep that I haven’t worked with yet. I’m most interested in trying out wool from sheep raised right here in Western Washington. I have leads on the following already:
California Variegated Mutant (CVM),
Sounds good so far, eh?
Others I’d like to try out probably won’t find locally include Cormo, Polwarth and Tarhee.
Anybody got contacts for those?
The Man has agreed to go to Eugene, OR with me this summer for the Blacksheep Gathering (making Denise a Very Happy Girl), so I’m sure that will open up all sorts of possibilities!