Spinning Saturday: Evergreens batts

When I received the Evergreen braids as part of the Wildcraft fibre club in January of this year, I knew I wanted to do something special. A few months later, that something special required an additional 4 braids, to total 600g.

I carded the lot up on my friend Sophie’s drumcarder. A lovely mountain of fluffy batts, with subtle colours and shadings thanks to starting with the hand dyed braids.

I finished them up just before they all had to be packed away in preparation for the move. Boy, did they take up a lot of room once they were in batt form!

The other day, when my knitting took a bad turn, I decided to start spinning them up. I stole the only comfy chair in the house out of the baby’s room and started spinning. I always forget just how much I love spinning from batts. They are so easy to spin. And I’m really happy with how they’ve spun up thus far.

I’m planning for this to become a 3ply yarn and it is destined for either a cardigan or jumper. I’ll decide on the final pattern once I’m holding the yarn in my hands.