we may have a lot of irons in the fire here at notsoswift.com, but we don't leave many things unfinished.
remember akuta, my adopted cotswold sheep? his fleece arrived here weeks ago, and i sent it out again for processing. it returned once again, and i have been spinning it.
i love it! i love the feel of it -- it's sort of dry and coarse, but in a good way.
because i love the look of organic matter stuck in wool -- bits of leaves and whatnot -- i have been spinning in noodles of this natural silk stuff i had lying around. it was impossible to knit with, i had plied it with a bunch of stuff already, so now i've just made noodles out of it. i also think it give the effect of, you know, asymmetrical owl feathers. hence "owl noodles".
i did this on my wheel! i am getting better at that -- but then again, this stuff was easy for the wheel. there would have been no real point in trying the drop spindle with this.
i'm going to have a lot of it!