Recently I was asked by the Warkworth Spinners and Weavers to come to a guild meeting and teach them about making different coloured yarns from natural coloured sheep fleeces. Since I had done my last project on this during my Ontario Handspinners Certificate course I was really excited to show them my stuff. It’s all about learning and passing that knowledge on that is so rewarding especially if you have an excited group like I did. My goal was to show them samples of different coloured yarns you could make from just using 3 natural coloured fleece. A black, a grey and a white fleece . By using different blending , spinning or plying techniques you can achieve this . I had 15 samples to show them. The goal was to make you think and make your own colour blends instead of searching for that one colour of say “brown” fleece. You may be able to make that colour from your stash . We had a lot of fun and I hope they enjoyed it and will look at their stash in a different way.
Starting with a white, black and grey fleece.
Warkworth Spinners and Weavers
Some of the yarns you can create.
My Fairilse sweater I spun and made from 4 different coloured natural fleeces.
This is my sample blanket I have ongoing since I started spinning. It is made from all the different natural coloured fleece that I have spun over the years to show just how many beautiful natural colours sheep can be.
My rug that I hooked using natural colours for the sheep to show the blends you can make.
A big thank you to Jill for taking the photos for me.
