I received some roving from a friend of a friend to spin up. She had traveled to a B&B in KY, MapleHillManor , which is also an Alpaca Farm. A knitter but not a spinner, she found me and wanted me to spin up her 4 oz. of very nice alpaca. I spun up two bobbins, and S plied it. It was nice to spin with and has gotten me back into using my wheel. Below is the plied yarn. She wanted to knit a scarf with the yarn. The result is 190 yds. of nice alpaca yarn. I hope this is enough for her to make what she had in mind. I did weigh the fiber and it was actually 3.6 oz. of fiber. There was 4 oz. if you include the weight of the bag and labels it was packaged with, or maybe she had removed some. I have found when I spin up 4 oz. my yield is an ave of 220-240 yds. of two ply yarn. It takes quite a bit of fluff to make yarn. LOL Below is a rough estimate I found online of amount of fiber to get the yards you desire. Lace = 2600+ yards per pound Fingering = 1900 to 2400 yards per po
I have yarn and a spinning wheel. Ready to handle anything as long as I have my fiber along for the ride. Contact me at: knittingdragonflies at gmail dot com A blog about knitting and spinning. I also have a link list to tutorials for knitting spinning and a free knitting patterns link list.