Fiddlehead Mittens
The Hello Yarn Fiddlehead project is done! Hooray!
The fibre - Hello Yarn Fibre Club January 2009 - "Norway" BFL: 
The fibre was separated into colours and blended into heathery batts. I dyed extra silver BFL and blended it with a titch of navy BFL to give it a lift and to coordinate better with the heathered colours.
The BFL batts were spun semi-worsted into a 3-ply worsted weight yarn. I usually get around 160 metres of 3-ply worsted weight from 115 grams (4 oz) of BFL, so I carded 115 grams (4 oz) of the main colour and 30 grams (1 oz) of each of the contrasts. This turned out to be sufficient with some leftovers. Singles were spun at around 26 - 29 wpi. Finished yarn is 11 - 12 wpi (fairly loosely plied).
The lining - natural Polwarth blended with Possum fur (70/30 blend) - woollen spun 2-ply sport weight. Singles spun at 32 wpi. Finished yarn was 14 wpi.
And done! 
April 21st, 2009 at 8:32 am
Those are amazing! Beautiful work.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:29 am
I LOVE these. I can’t believe you spun up all that yarn and made such beautiful mittens with it! Here’s quite an embarrassing tale for you - I’ve been reading your blog for quite a while and I’ve been very impressed and I just now discovered that you are “David” over on Ravelry. I had no idea!! (I had to go hunt you down so I could fave these mittens…)
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:22 am
Fabulous results!
I’m loving the fiber I ordered from you.
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I love all the pictures and details - and the mittens, of course.
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:38 pm
OMGosh! I love these!!!!! I have been coveting that mitten pattern but haven’t tried them yet. The colors you dyed and spun up (SWOON!) are absolutely perfect!!!!!
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Wow! the whole process from fleece to fingers…… as a beginning spinner (sometimes) I’m in awe - they are gorgeous.
May 28th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
That looks seriously beautiful!!!!
June 7th, 2009 at 4:35 am
I never thought to separate roving and blend it into batts! You’re quite the inspiration David! Looks fab!
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 am
This is so brilliant. So well done - and I am a bit jealous at your abilities - you are so good at what you do.
/Julia
October 5th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
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