This is another of the monthly fibres that I used to subscribe to and I have almost spun up all of the ready-to-spin braids that I have left from this supplier, just a few more to go. I still have bits and bobs in my "ingredients cupboard" for when I make my own blends, but that is a different matter.
This one is from October 2019 and was based on some Indian cloth called Khadi that was championed by Mahatma Ghandi.
The fibre looks like its got some different neutral colours in there but this doesn't seem to show in the finished yarn. It was a very simple, straight-forward spin of splitting it in half, pre-draft the fibre and spin it and then ply the two singles together.
I had intended to spin this to a thickness that would work with another yarn in my stash but I seem to have missed this by a mile and it has bloomed on washing as well. Oh, well, plenty more wool on the sheep in the field. This one has spun up to double-knit weight and I have 102g/274m and the fibre content is 50% Merino, 25% Polwarth, 25% Tussah Silk.
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