First Handspun Silk Samples

[vaneramos]

djjo and I attended the Ontario Handspinning Seminar on the weekend. It was my first. The theme this year was silk, so I took the workshop focusing on an introduction to spinning with silk. These are my samples. The one on the right is an 80/20 wool/silk blend from Wellington Fibres. On the left is a blend I made on the hand carders, mostly dyed tussa silk with just a little natural black wool. Much fun was had.

Comments

[bellakara.livejournal.com]

Are you going to knit something with it next? It must be great to be able to spin and then knit something with it!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

There isn't enough here to knit much of anything. I might weave them into something or just keep them as mementoes. I have only recently started spinning, so I plan to practise some more before starting any big projects. But yes, the goal is to spin yarn I can use for knitting and weaving.