Her Stash Lives On....................

January spin-in brings lots of good memories for future years--it also brings many different fibers to add to your stash!  How do we accumulate so much fiber?  Why can't we keep up with the spinning required to make that yarn we need for weaving or knitting?  Sometimes Life gets in the way while we are living each day..............................................

Two days before we arrived at Spin-in, we received a call from a family member who had some fiber to donate to spinners who would appreciate it.  Okay, we'll accepted it and it give it as door prizes, which is a big thing each day for registrants--needless to say, we did not expect what we received----27, yes 27 TUBS!!  Yes TUBS!! of fiber--all good fiber--most processed.  We felt sad for this person who had to move to assisted living facility--there was no way she could take it with her--
I'm sorry I didn't get photos of all the tubs--it was hard to believe that someone could have so much lovely fiber--

 This was one of the dyed rovings--Corriedale fiber--she seemed to like this breed of sheep as there was many tubs with processed white fleeces

 She also liked Merino, 80's count;  lovely roving--spinning quality right to the wheel.  There were so many different fleeces--Alpaca, wool, Jacob, etc.  We asked those members who had study groups if they would be interested in these fleeces--there were also soy silk bags, mohair rovings--raw fiber too.  And Silk!  yes, lots of silk.

The photo above is merino--it would be great for felting as well as spinning.

The fiber to the left is 50/50 merino/mohair--

 There wasn't much dyed fiber rovings, like the one on the right--if she did the dyeing, she did a good job--fiber wasn't felted or matted.

 Most of the bins had the price tag and merchant she purchased from--most from 2002-2004.  There was no cotton fiber but lots of synthetic, that could be used for stuffing (in my opinion)   There was also lots of tencel--which a study group wanted to study.  Don't think I'd want to spin it, but some of the attendees were happy to accept for their study.

Photo to the right is bleached tussah silk, almost a pound--Pollywogs  lovely stuff!  Her stash will keep many spinning for many years to come.

Several of us decided right then, we were going home and spin up our stash!  No one wants to leave so much fiber without a home--

She had very little hand spun yarn in her stash--there was one woven shawl with her

handspun--that shawl was delivered with our charity "Helping Hands" hats and gloves.

The above fiber is 50/50 wool and tencel--Her skeins were lovely--

these are in my stash now--I want to make something that would

showcase her spinning--maybe, return it to her someday.

Needless to say, I didn't purchase much fiber-usually don't.

A vendor graciously gave me this bag of Acadian grown brown cotton--

I'll add it to my stash!!