In February 2013 I made a small glass baseball style cap from glass clay and painted it with pearlescent powder before firing it in my kiln. It is a very wee object, measuring at less than an inch in length.
Throwback Thursday: glass hat
Starting seedlings
I have used little peat pellets this year to start my basil and pepper seeds. Maybe they will actually make it outside this year.
I’m very thankful for farmers, since I can only occasionally grow basil and peppers, and bomb out on everything else.
Cable ply
I did decide to cable ply my angora hand spun yarn to go from a two ply to a four ply.
I am going to let time set the twist, so wrapped the final yarn into a center pull ball. This is yarn spun from raw angora rabbit fur, not carded not combed, not washed. I’ll created my swatches for my fiber book before water touches the fibers, just to see what happens.
Plying angora
I’ve two plied the angora yarn I spun.
The yarn is still quite thin, so I think I will ply it again to make a four ply cable yarn. The bumpy texture of cable plied yarn will complement the fluffy nature of the yarn, I think.
Angora rabbit fur
I finished spinning the angora rabbit fur I purchased from a Texas rabbit farmer. I didn’t wash, card, or comb the fiber, just took it out of the bag and started spinning, which resulted in a more uneven spin, but was worth the experiment.
The next step is to ply the yarn. In preparation, I wrapped the yarn into a center pull ball.
Critters and Craft 