My wheel and some skeins I spun
The wheel is a double treadle Louet ( from Holland) A small section of the yarns I spin are on the table. The white and blue one is a Romney sheep wool and shredded bluejeans ( cotton) The pure white skein is Cormo sheep, baby soft wool.
I am more interested in spinning the different sheep wools ( there are 350 types of sheep) I like combining wool and hair ( from Alpaca or Musk ox or Mohair goats)
One dau I will have to stop spinning and start knitting or weaving.
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sandyw1952
Level 6
Feb 16, 2018
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Wheel or wool? Or both?
Those are gorgeous.
chicagojcb
Level 7
Feb 16, 2018
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Thank you, Chicagojcb
I had a friend that did that with dog hair.
JoeMastle
Level 7
Feb 16, 2018
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Some years ago, I spun a whole shopping bag of Malamute fur for a woman in a barter affair. DOg hair is like any hair, very, very warm because of the hollow shaft inside the fiber. Also, it smelled like wet dog, no matter how often we washed the yarn. I combined it with a bit of Romney wool to make it easier to spin and knit. The Finnish people spijn a lot of dog hair for their outerware.
I have my own wool. 
Fifty inches of fairy locks. My own personal ropes. (I actually found a 63 inch hair in my bed not too long ago.)
I’m kinda jealous you have such amounts of amazing yarns. Kinda, because if I had it, I’d have to make stuff. Lol.
Annaleda
Level 8
Feb 16, 2018
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Annaleda,
I am not so much driven to make stuff from my fiber as how different sheep breeds and other fibers spin up into yarn. For example, I have a large bag of East Friesian Milksheep fleece, still dirty. I grew up on the milk of those sheep, having an allegy to cow's milk.e I have processed the fleece ( washed, carded and spun, I'll probably put it away until inspiration hits me. My big old house it full of wool in all stages of preparation. I consider it insulation against the cold New York weather!
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