
with an equal amount of 70% merino/30% silk dyed mostly yellow with bits of red and blue

Here's the alpaca going in to the carder (electric carders - you gotta love 'em!)

followed by the merino/silk. I ran each batt through three times to get a good mix of the alpaca/merino/silk.

Of course, the cat helped through the entire process . . . .

I ended up with eight 1-oz batts. I'm shooting for two 4-oz 2-ply skeins. When I first pulled them out of the carder I was a little under-whelmed.


But this is how it's spinning up and I'm absolutely loving it!

NEXT: The journey from alpaca to yarn!