Stashed

A friend has just acquired a *large* amount of wool from a textile research lab. So much, she's been giving it away to her knitting friends by the bag full.

Wow is all I can say, what a wholelotta wool!

Its all on cones so she kindly lent me her niddy noddy to hank it up. Some of it will need washed before use so I'm skeining to make it easier.

Have you used a niddy noddy before? What a great little thing!! Makes skeining SO easy.

Heres last nights efforts


Looks like a lot of wool eh? Hmmm hardly made a dent in the haul she gave me



And the stuff I took hardly made a dent in my friends "collection"!!!

Its going to be fab to have so much cream wool on hand for dyeing. I've made a couple of 100g skeins ready for my yarn swap packages and the rest I've been doing in 200g lots. My Mum wants some and I'll probably end up giving some of this away as there is just so much.

Its not labelled but feels 8ply-ish. Some of it is hand spun like in appearance, some is more tightly spun, some is quite waxy and will need a good wash or 2, some is silky and smooth. Its really interesting that cream wool can look the same at a glance but actually all has different 'anatomy'.

The scratchier stuff is earmarked for felted bags and some of the softer stuff will be fine for clothing. I'm never going to have to worry about stuffing up the dyeing as I imagine I have enough cream wool for a life time now lol.

Thanks Erin!!