Well, actually, it’s the wool I’d forgotten to take a picture of in August. The Fine Wool fibre was from Freyalyn, “Shallows” at the top and “California” below. Both at 14wpi, they were the first test of thicker yarn plied using my new flyer on my Timber Top wheel.
The first yarn I did with it was this:
Again, Fine Wool from Freyalyn, “Rose”. This was beautiful to spin and turned out at 25wpi. All seemed fine, but when I came to wind it, it was underplied. A re-ply solved this easily enough, but I was worried why it hadn’t plied properly in the first place. Eventually we worked out that the new bobbins were being marginally slowed by the (old) whorl on the flyer, which was the original one with a fitting exactly right for the old flyer but which was not quite right for the new one. In next day’s post was a new whorl from amazing James (who made the wheel in 1977) and all has been fine since! Meanwhile, the tension handle has been falling off the wheel quite often, so I sent it off to James who rang as soon as it arrived to say it wasn’t the original one for the wheel & it wasn’t anything he’d ever made! Goodness knows where that came from, but it might explain a lot! James is sending a proper handle and gradually we’ll get this dear old wheel back in proper order. Meanwhile, the Cringoch Blue-faced Leicester from Artis-Anne is waiting for the handle to appear and then it can be plied. I can’t wait to see what it turns out like. Saturday was a bit like a birthday, post-wise, with more fibre from Artis-Anne arriving and some Knitpicks which Amber is lending me to try.