I've finished the flax and it looks like an ape spun it.... actually that's an insult to the ape. It looks more like an elephant had at it with it's trunk! But I don't care at this point. I'm finished and the tips of my fingers are raw to prove it. 6 skeins of line flax and the worst time I've ever had spinning anything. After watching YouTube videos on how to spin flax and reading and trying, and reading and trying again, I'm putting the flax away and never looking at it from this day forward, that is, if I can get away with it. It was horrible... it is horrible. It looks like rope and rough rope at that. I'm likely to get very little in the way of marks but that's fine by me.
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| These are my line flax samples and if you click on the photo you will get an enlarged version and you will also see how coarse and ropey it looks. |
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| By comparison my tow flax sample look positively soft!! |
So now I have to boil up these babies and finish processing them and one of them has to be bleached.... and while I'm doing that I'll be washing wool for Lopi and working on worsted and woollen samples.... and relishing spinning something I love.
I also decided that I just couldn't live with that godawful pink background anymore so while I'm trying to be satisfied with some pink, I think the black is a good background.
Oh yeah... I'm still waiting for lambs... and spring... neither is on the horizon yet... just one blasted moose still yomping away at the hay.
2 comments:
Looking at the flax that you spin would be great for the country dollies.Ah now that would be cool. So sorry to hear how hard on your hands.Missed you tonight V. and I where there. Not the same without you. Pray feeling ok.Just love all the different yarns maded. top on of moring to you. x
Hi Linde,
Had a breakdown with one of the Daughters and felt my place was to help with cheering her up... teenage stuff you understand. She is having a mental health day today, to pull her out of her doledrums. Will see you all next week again.
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