Having converted all the dyed locks in the house into carded batts, the question is: What to do with the beautiful wool rejected by the drum carder? (Short or tangled fibers stay on the feed roll rather than going onto the drum to be part of a batt.)
Instead of discarding this "waste fiber," I put it in a box so it can be admired!
Here is a perfect example of the weaver's-eyes-are-bigger-than-her_stomach dilema. Delicious colors. Plenty of imagination to picture finished yarns and fabric you could make with the colors. Never mind that one has ten times more great ideas than time in which to execute them. The colors are irresistible...
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| Carder waste made into roving for spinning, with previous experiment shown above |
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| The irresistible question: How will this stuff look once it's spun? |
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| A box of fleece that wouldn't go through the drum carder -- hence the hand cards! |
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