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At our first spin-in, Julia gave me a few handfuls of fiber from her stash to sample. I'd mentioned that mine was in fact pitiful (some 3 pounds of various fibers, plus a sampler box) and she came to the rescue, along with Andrea. For a while I just petted my handfuls, gushed over the texture to BF, and pretty much bundled them away. I thought I'd keep them as part of my samples, but how would I find out if I really liked them? Besides, I could always get more, right?

So I spun the lot. (Also? I accidentally washed a red hallway rug with our bedroom rugs. *sniffle*) A little Hue/Saturation, an overlay, and tada! Bedroom rug back to normal. Long live Photoshop!

Fiber: Bamboo, white
Yield: 4 yards
Notes: Long staple, and quite shiny. Spun worsted; short-draw. Feels a bit stiff. Mm. I don't think I like bamboo very much.

Fiber: Pygora (Pygmy/Angora goat cross), brownish gray
Yield: 5 yards
Notes: A mix of silky guard hair and finer fleece. Spun woollen; short draw. Surprisingly easy to spin, but easy to overtwist. I do like this interesting mix of fiber.

Fiber: Spunky Eclectic Blue-Face Leicester in Tahiti (see Julia's handspun here" and here) and natural-colored tussah silk sliver from my stash
Yield: 74.5 yards
Notes: I planned on a marled yarn to extend Tahiti's vibrant colors. The neutrality of the ecru silk made it a good match. The BFL was easy to spin, but the silk. Boy. It was fine, wispy, and kept separating all over my pants. After plying, I had leftover silk singles, so I joined it to the end of the BFL and kept on plying. BFL spun woollen, long-draw; silk spun woollen, from the fold. I do like the BFL; I'll have to do more with the silk.

PS: Wendy noted in Friday's comments that browser Firefox's latest version comes with a spell-checker. Nice.

Okay, so apparently "segue" has been misspelled "segway" quite a few times even before the product ever came out. Huh. Whoddathunk.