The blue definitely is 😁 I don't usually do blue but this is lovely.

ps will post finished garment if i don't die of old age first 🤣

Thanks! It's the rip, shit and bust approach 😒 Sometimes it even works.

And now dyed

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Boomer here.
I hope not. What a farce they were 🙄

Dye day!
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Oh fabulous! She is so talented 🥳

Photo of several hanks of cream handspun Polwarth fleece.

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320 grams of 3-4 ply handspun Polwarth. A bit uneven in some places but it's lovely and soft. We're very lucky in Aotearoa New Zealand to have access to beautiful fleece. This came from a small farm in North Auckland. It's getting dyed tomorrow. Watch this space.
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I've finished the floof mountain and have discovered each floof ball takes about 1.5 hours to spin. There's several dozen of them 😳 See y'all next month 🤣🤣

Great work. Love the colours 😻

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Go grab one. Cute and handy.

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He wasn't getting the love on FB this morning, at least not until the bots piled in.

Photo of two rolls of handcombed white wollen fibre.

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Combed wool from a cream Polwarth fleece. I've done this the hard way: combed the locks, washed them, combed again and dizzed off a hackle. This ensures the fibres are parallel and lie the same way. Very time-consuming but the finished product is superb.

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Good yarn is everything. Nice work!

#HappyNewYear to all the #handspinning and #handknitting peeps. All the best for your 2026 crafting ♥️🧶🪡🧵

Happy birthday, Raccoons!!
Thanks for being our internet weaving and spinning friend. Hope you have a good one 🥂

Reposting this since it's Sunday and someone might feel the love. Or need a Christmas gift.
Thanks, peeps.
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They are. And the black especially is very fine. I just love it 🐑🐑

Photo of two natural wool locks. One is cream and the other is black.

I have a bunch of cream fleece and a bunch of black fleece. I think I'll try my hand at spinning them and knitting a brioche shawl with the contrasting colours. Both fleeces are fine Polwarth so greasy but lovely to work with (I always wash Polwarth before spinning).
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Just be aware they're really messy and much noisier than you expect. Easy to keep alive. In an urban environment the biggest hazards are dogs and cars. All the best 🐓🐓

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Black & white Polwarth fleece. We are so lucky in AoNZ we don't even realise how lucky we are sometimes. This gorgeousness is as fine as Merino and from a small farm in north Auckland where the sheep have names 😻😻
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Photo of a pile of soft fluffy wollen fibre that has been washed and combed by hand. It looks like quite a big pile but barely weighs 300g 🙄 It's a labour of love, I tell ya.

After hours - and I do mean hours - of combing and dizzing the black Polwarth, I now have slightly less than 300g (yes, you read that correctly) of soft fluffy floofballs with blue/green angelina highlights. I ♥️ sparklies. Hoping to turn it into a fine lace because it's suxh a fine, soft fibre.

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Thanks 😸

Yep. Murky. Possibly an acquired taste 😹

Thank you 😸

Dyed. The different colours in the natural wool pick the dye up differently. Which is cool. If you want uniformity go to Glassons. As hoped the dark colour makes the beads pop out.
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hope so. my dyeing is pretty much guesswork 😹