It takes about three passes thru the Fancicard to make these well-blended batts.They are so soft and silky...all will be used for lace projects.
The lighter coloured batts are fawn alpaca and seasilk (60% seacell and 40%silk). I picked up the seasilk from the Black Lamb a couple weeks ago.
The brown colour batts are a blend of the golden suri (shown in my previous post), chocolate brown huacaya cria and silk.
The silk and the suri are so flyaway and sticky! I found a way to help blend them tho. I put flyaway fibres underneath the layer of huacaya or wool when I feed it into the drumcarder.
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Beautiful, Beautiful.
I love the color of the fawn blend.
When I blend merino, alpaca and silk the fibers fly all over the place. All over my face, nose. Drives me nuts. I may go back to adding BFL to that concoction. It's less fly away. But not as soft.
Oh, what beautiful batts! I agree about carding fine fibers - I sandwich them in between others and it works better.
yummy. they look like they have a pretty sheen to them too.
That Fancicard looks to be doing a wonderful job! (but we all know that the operator deserves all the credit!)
Beautiful blending, Jody! Going to be wonderful stuff all spun up, which btw the photos make me want to jump in and get going!
Oh I want to spin your batts, they're gorgeous. I'm glad you are enjoying your fancicard, I love my Pat green carder too.
Beatiful colours.
Love alpaca.
I am carding alpaca and silk outside as the fibers stick to everything...
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