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.