Fibrefest

At our Guild Meeting on Saturday I took part in a silk spinning workshop - it's amazing how many different forms of silk fibre - all based on some format of silk waste or by product - that there is available to spin from.  Cocoons, throwster's waste, tops to name but a few.  We had the opportunity to spin direct from cocoons, blend silk with other wool fibres.


I bought two lots of Janet's dyed silk tops for myself.  Once I got them home I pulled them out of the bag and looked closely at the colour/s then split them into 4 lots.


I hope the photo shows the lustre of the fibre - it is just delicious.

My next thoughts were what do I blend these with and what colours will I use - there was no merino superwash fibre left - the only thing I had was some white baby alpaca.  


Sunday became a play day - the fibre was split into 5 lots and dyes blended - some of the colours aren't quite what I was after, but not to worry they will be used.  The only other problem is that in my haste to dye the fibre I didn't remove any of the debris (grass, seed heads etc), so I'll have to do a little fibre preparation when it's dry before blending with the chosen silk/s.