Camp Pluckyfluff Re-Cap

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This was such a fun camp taught by Lexi Boeger ! There were 5 students (including the owners of Urban Fauna Studio, Jamie and Blas). The day was filled with spinning and drum carding and playing around with different techniques. I think the most important thing I learned from this class was to just "Let it go through the spinning wheel" it was hard for me to not draft and make the perfectly thin yarn that I'm used to making, so this was a biggie!!

This was the first yarn we made and we learned how to make coils, granny stacks and twists.


The second yarn was a drum carded batt that I put in everything but the kitchen sink - BFL, alpaca, wool, mohair, wensleydale, flash, angelina, sari silk, merino/tencel, bamboo, snippets of ribbon yarn, tinsel, recycled coke bottle fiber and even some shredded money.

We broke for lunch and ate at a Pho restaurant down the street. I became addicted to the coconut bubble tea and had to go back on Sunday to get another one!!

After the break we came back and learned how to attach things to our yarn - felted baubles, sequins, ricrack, feathers, and my personal favorite yellow easter chicks (I am planning an Easter yarn with some of these attached to it).



The technique I really liked, but didn't have much to practice with was spinning carded mohair locks and angelina fiber over a core yarn to make a whispy airy yarn. The effect was so pretty, however, I didn't like the color of mohair (yellow) and I used too much fiber at once so mine was not as airy as it was supposed to be.



Last we learned how to spin fabric and tail spinning. This is still on my bobbin, I didn't like the fabric technique very much, it made too dense of a yarn and the tail spinning was not working well for me because of my cor yarn.

There was one other lady in the class who had the same wheel as me and even had the jumbo flyer on it!! That was neat!