Yak, Jacob, and a small rant

Found a great spindle box for my Tudor Rose spindle and started spinning some grey yak down.

The box is a birch wine bottle box with a leather tie, it holds the spindle and a good lump of fibre.  The yak is from Crown Mountain Farms, very soft and fluffy, but lacking in structure.  It feels similar to the camel down I just finished.

I'm also spinning undyed Jacob roving on Chorlton, my Louet S10 wheel.  It's not as soft as BFL or Merino, but it feels good.  I'm aiming for a sport weight Navajo ply with stripes of chocolate and vanilla.  It smells sheepy, there are occasional bits of vegetable matter in the roving, and I love it!  Spun a foot of each colour Thursday night to my favourite movie (Pitch Black - "You said it was clear!" "I said it looked clear."  "Well, how does it look now?" "Looks clear.").

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It bugs me when people dismiss Louet wheels as only capable of thick singles and bulky yarn.  I spun fingering to lace weight 2 ply silk on it last year, and I'm easily getting light sport weight to fingering weight from it.

I like the big 6oz bobbins, the "designed by IKEA" look, and the fact that assembly was just putting in three bolts and tightening them (unlike the Ashford Kiwi, which was a jigsaw puzzle).  If someone gave me a Schacht Matchless or a Majacraft Rose, I'd take it in a heartbeat, but they're outside my budget and Chorlton spins very well.  Give Louet a chance!

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