I have been reminded that I did a project on spinning and knitting up an alpaca fleece and I said that I would post the results of this exercise as it was the first time I’d spun this type of fleece.
The fleece was a joy to spin; flowed freely through my fingers and it was soft and easy to get a nice even size.
Unfortunately I was too eager to knit up the fleece before I found out how much I had in that colour and so I didn’t have enough to complete a jacket (started here).
So I unpicked the entire back, two fronts and one and half sleeves.
After smoothing out the yarn I reknitted it into a hat and booties. These turned out well although the hat took some changes to the pattern as the hat was too wide across the brim and was not going to sit on the head of the baby but fall off, so I knitted a further six rows at the base of the hat instead to increase the size of the hat.
I think if I was to knit this again I’d use a rib on the brim to keep in tighter. Not really sure this pattern is the best for baby heads, but since this was my first project in alpaca I will be interested to see how it wears (when the baby arrives – November soon).
Good knitting folks and I will chat about my beautiful Gotland fleece shortly. Bye for now.
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