Four skeins of freshly spun and plied alpaca fleece. Each one from the bags of fluffiness I received just over a week ago.
What these need now is a good long soak to clean off the dust and debris and they will be transformed. When that's been done, I shall be making something special for the owner of the alpacas.
But timing is everything. Our lives on a narrowboat are generally dictated by how much water we have (our boat teen will sometimes run the tap for a bit longer than really necessary as a passive aggressive act of protest).
It's been two weeks since we last filled up and we are definitely getting low (the boat sits higher in the water and our pump starts to make a distinctive flapping noise).
The yarn bath is not considered a VITAL use of a precious and diminishing supply (some may disagree) so for now is going to have to wait. We can't boat move today as Storm Brian is blowing a hooligan through the valley. I shall exercise some patience.
Until then I shall carry on with this...
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| Blended alpaca. |
There's always something of a woolly nature to keep me occupied :-)
Coming up...it's half term week so I'm looking forward to a week of spinning, chilling and pottering about on NB Mercy. By this time next week I will have hosted another Woollycraft Heal Yourself with Wool workshop. So looking forward to introding more lovely people to the wonder of wool .
TTFN x x x
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