The farm where I bought the roving I've used is no longer going to produce any. I can't say I blame them - I find it unbelievable that there are so few opportunities in Australia to get small batch processing done. Even the ones that are left are all closing down. I don't think any of our commercial wool is processed here either - most of that goes to China and then comes back again. Why???? Anyway. There are two colours here and I decided that if I combine them in a 3-ply there will be enough for one last jumper. The lower two bobbins are a mid brown and the top one on the flyer is oatmeal. The tatty looking one on the right is thanks to my cat. I accidentally left it on the floor over night and she had a great deal of fun with it. As it is true roving (not top) I've tried to maintain the fluffy light woollen nature of it although there were more noils than I would normally want. The two brown singles were spun "S" and the oatmeal is "Z...
Spinning yarns for the family