I got to thinking, what is the ultimate fiber stash?
For me it is 5 lb of each of the following:
For me it is 5 lb of each of the following:
- Long wool/40 count (Cotswold or Romney)
- Medium fine /56 count (Shetland or Jacob)
- Downy / 56 count (Suffolk)
- Fine / 76 count (Rambouillet, Merino, Cormo)
It is large enough that I can spin almost any project from stash, but small enough that I can spin the whole thing in a few weeks. It is about what is on hand right now, but more is on order.
In fact, today is a sort and clean day in hopes of finding enough bobbins to warp the loom using the sectional beam. I did find enough bobbins even before getting to the big box of weft on bobbins. With that weft on pirns, I will have a surplus of bobbins- perhaps for the first time in my spinning life I do not believe it.
I have not found a way to wind off from the spinning wheel to a pirn, so I end up winding off onto a storage bobbin, and then from the storage bobbin to a pirn. I like my wood lath as a pirn winder. It is fast.
I have not found a way to wind off from the spinning wheel to a pirn, so I end up winding off onto a storage bobbin, and then from the storage bobbin to a pirn. I like my wood lath as a pirn winder. It is fast.
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