Mohair!

Ceri has asked for pictures of my mohair adventures thus far, and so:

Today’s dye experiment: a soft lilac (it was supposed to be a pale plum, but purples are tricksy dyes)

Mohair laceweight (or what will be laceweight once I ply it) [IT WANTS TO BE LACEWEIGHT, I swear; it drafts so beautifully in a semi-woolen draw into a thread-thin yarn]:

Yesterday’s two-ply worsted weight (the large skein) and a mohair singles yarn (sport/DK weight, I suspect):

In non-spinning news, I am slogging through another epic fantasy project (I am definitely taking this genre off the list of genres I’ll accept from now on), and I roasted pork and made pork-onion soup today. Also, yesterday Gryff pelted down the hall into the living room, jumped on the wooden chest, and slid right off into the window. You know, the window that HRH sealed with plastic last week? Yes. One large cat-shaped hole in the plastic. HRH was *not* be pleased. (It was hilarious to me, too, until HRH came home.) He patched it with a spare bit of plastic, but there was much grr in the atmosphere. Not so fun. And then the boy brought a deck of cards into the kitchen and enthusiastically proposed that we all play Go Fish, and all was well.

And bloody hell, our phone battery is dying. It holds a charge for about a half-hour. This makes my weekly hour-long chats with my mum somewhat challenging. So tomorrow I’ll head over to Angrignon and buy a new one. (We’ve had the phone for about eight years, and the battery seems to last almost exactly four years, so not so bad.)

9 thoughts on “Mohair!

  1. Ceri

    Oooh. Lots of blue in the lilac, looks like (or is that just the picture?) I love the halo on the single (Amazing how it looks like the two-ply tones it down. Because of the extra twist, I expect.)

  2. Autumn Post author

    It is very blue. There are pinks in different places, so spinning it up should yield a subtle colour change throughout. It will be my reward for handing in my assignment today.

  3. Leslie

    Beautiful spinning. I’m also working with mohair right now, with the end result of a similar weight but a different purpose (embroidery thread rather than lace). Got to get up a blog post about that…

  4. jan

    I am following your mohair spinning and dyeing experiments very closely, so that I’ll have some idea of what I want you to do with the pound I bought, when we get around to discussing it (at this rate, not until next year).

  5. Autumn Post author

    Holy cats, Leslie — mohair embroidery thread? I knew you were testing alpaca, but wow. I’ll be watching for that post; it will be interesting to see how it handles when used for crewel work.

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