Tour de Fleece - Trying My New Dealgan

The one challenge I did during the Tour de Fleece was to try out my Dealgan spindle.  It was purchased over a year ago at The Yarn Barn in Kansas.  My intention was to work with it last year for the Tour de Fleece.  That didn't happen.  But this year, I started a cob on it after watching a video.  Which means, I learned how to start a leader from my roving.

 This is the result after a couple times working with it.  My rule was once it dropped 3 times in a session, I was done.

I worked on it 3 times.  And have this photo with the rest of what I did for Tour de Fleece 2019.  

There is a chance it will spend more time being a nostipinne than a spindle.  I haven't gotten it to stop wobbling.

Tour de Fleece - Cheyenne Aplaca

The fiber for my other Tour de Fleece 2019 project has been in my stash pile for years.  Let's not talk about that.  Instead, I am going to show a few pictures and report how much yarn I produced.

 The starting fiber was in a nice plastic bag with a label.  The Crescent Peak Alpaca who supplied the fiber was Cheyenne.

 While spinning, I found some fiber and dirt fell out.  It was a quick spin using the 12 to 1 ratio. This photo probably is the closest to the real color.

The fiber still has a bit of energy after plying.  The final result was 297 yards of two ply light worsted.

Aplaca Silk -TdF 2019

The first Tour de Fleece 2019 project was some Alpaca Silk.  My parents sent it to me for Christmas years ago.  Pretty sure, Dad picked it out.  He asked if I had done anything with it.  I think he want to see it spun up.  That didn't happen because he died last year.  Or maybe it did.  For whatever reason, I lost my spinning energy when Dad died just before Tour de Fleece 2018.

Starting out I split the 8 ounces in to 3 piles for three singles and decided to use my Ackerwork bobbins.

Starting the third bobbin for the singles using the 16:1 drive ratio.  I did loose the end once that was a fun 3 hours getting the end back and patching the single back together.  Tape never works for me.

Here is a bobbin with the 3 ply on it with the two ply scrap in the background. 716 yards 3 ply and 12 yards 2 ply with a reasonable balance to the yarn.  A little energy was left in the skeins.