I have finished my Clun Forest hand work samples and mounted them on a page in my fiber book. I made swatches by knitting, crochet, nålbinding, and weaving.

I would not make a garment out of this yarn, a rug, yes, or basket maybe. I think though that I overspun the singles. This article talks about how Clun Forest is the best for hand-spinning and produces a “very soft yarn”. My yarn sneers at “very soft” with its fists up. Perhaps on a spinning wheel with low twist some loft would be obtained, but my drop spindle spinning produced a sturdy single. Sturdy, not soft. Hm.

Nålbinding produced the squishiest swatch, and with a liner would produce a respectable hat which could potentially deflect plummeting white acorns. I just noticed that I mounted my nålbinding round wrong-side up. Hm. Easy to fix with the brads. Easier than taking a new picture. Ha.

My Clun Forest yarn is done! Here is more information on Clun Forest sheep.

This is the coarsest wool I have spun so far, although the Livestock Conservancy rates the wool as medium. I probably over spun the singles as well, which makes the finished yarn rougher. I purchased 4.4 ounces of wool batt, and ended up with 4.13 ounces of yarn. There were nepps in the preparation; some evened mostly out in the spinning, some stuck out. The bits that didn’t incorporate I pulled out, which explains the weight loss. I’m going to make samples for my fiber page, then the rest of the yarn will be used for a basket or bag. It is definitely not next to skin soft, but seems sturdy enough for housewares.

Now the conundrum is where I put the passport sticker. Hm. It isn’t where I thought it was, and I didn’t put in on the page in the passport (I don’t know why). I suppose I will have to break down and actually clean up my craft room. Hm.