Knit/Crochet Winter Wear - share your pics

[NH Homesteader]

I’ve been spinning… and spinning… and not doing anything with the yarn… yet but this will eventually be a sweater!

Pardon the mess… I have a few children

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

My eldest finished the daily temperature blanket for her younger sister. It weighs almost 8 pounds.

Super pretty. I love the color choices

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That is so cool!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I’ve been spinning… and spinning… and not doing anything with the yarn… yet but this will eventually be a sweater!

I'm so fascinated by all this. You go from sheep to wool to yarn to clothing. How cool is that! Maybe I should get some Angora goats or some Pygoras? Oh heck no, lol. What was I thinking?

 

[NH Homesteader]

I'm so fascinated by all this. You go from sheep to wool to yarn to clothing. How cool is that! Maybe I should get some Angora goats or some Pygoras? Oh heck no, lol. What was I thinking?

Angora goats are not super hardy, but pygoras… do it! I’m spinning from roving currently so this yarn made a pit stop at the mill for washing/carding but I do plan to do at least one fleece the whole way through this year. It’ll be from Miss Ivy

All my pics of Ivy have my kids hugging her so this is the best pic I have without showing my kids’ faces online

 

[tortoise]

I'm so fascinated by all this. You go from sheep to wool to yarn to clothing. How cool is that! Maybe I should get some Angora goats or some Pygoras? Oh heck no, lol. What was I thinking?

Pygoras were on my wish list, but a the local fiber mill talked me out of it. They told me the wool is only usable for the first year and then it's too low of quality after that. But hey... thanks for reminding me I want a Pygora anyway. The fiber mill also talked me out of alpaca in the same conversation.

 

[NH Homesteader]

I’ve been spinning pygora roving, it’s lovely but I do believe it needs dehairing so most mills don’t process it. I’m not sure why it would only be good the first year, I’ve never heard that. I want pygoras but DH said no. Boo!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

They told me the wool is only usable for the first year

That would get me in so much trouble! I'd have to make sure I had new babies every year to keep the first year wool coming in!

 

[tortoise]

’m not sure why it would only be good the first year

because of the hair.

Does pygora wool pluck?

 

[NH Homesteader]

There are different fiber types, so some pygoras do and some don’t. I don’t know all the details of the fiber types but it seems like there is a lot of variation. I like what I’ve spun but I do prefer wool, so if I ever had pygoras it wouldn’t be a practical thing, just for fun lol