In which trillium remembers that she has this fiber blog thing

So last summer at the Black Sheep festival I bought my first fleece.

It was a lovely small jacob, with the typical dual colored dark brown and ivory coat.

On and off (okay mostly off) all year I've been combing it and spinning it up.

I started with the dark wool, then did some combo and finished with the light fleece so as to have a nice gradation of finished yarn. It's all approximately worsted weight, and navajo plied.


Today I took the plunge and dyed it up a lovely jeweled purple, which gave me just the effect I was going for. There's slightly more difference between the light purple and the deep deep burgundy than shows in this picture, but it's pretty close.


Now I just need to let it dry and knit it up into a lovely cabled wrap I've had my eye on for a while.