I love this yarn so much I decided to share. It started with this Merino/Romney/Mooritt blend I bought from a farm on Madeline Island on Lake Superior (in Wisconsin). It's a blend of fiber from sheep with names like Twill, Tweed, Tattersall and Tapestry. That was reason enough for me but when I received the package and opened it... It smelled like a ghost town... really. Now, that might have turned some people away right there but to me it was like catnip to a cat. I want to roll in it! Seriously! Indeed, you can find me with my face buried in it, breathing it in.
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| Merino/Romney wool and silk noil |
But what to do with it? Well, I had this bag of natural silk noil laying around just waiting for a project and I couldn't see dyeing either perfect ingredients so... blend them! Silk noil, if you're not familiar with it are the left-overs from the carding process. They're nits and nubbins and bits of papery cocoons that are basically undesirable to the fine silk fabric industry - great for spinners though. So I carded them together and got this soft pillowy blanket of smell-good fluff. Yay!
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| The batts of Ghost Town, ready to spin |
Spinning was delightful as it simply slipped through my fingers. I plied it, a rather thick yarn for my antique machine. It is absolutely beautiful and soft and has that smell... like an old restored building, a hundred years, thousands of memories, humanity and decay. I can't really describe how much it affects me, words seem trivial and I wonder if I'll be able to sell it.
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| The finished yarn. |
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