I’m just playing about with my new-to-me drum carder, making yummy batts. Found some dyed Corriedale locks stashed in what passes for an attic in my house (think mini-attic) as well as some mohair locks (and a bit of hand-dyed silk cap) and before you know it - wool/mohair batts. Soon diz’d into a roving, the resultant sliver has been spun into a z-twist singles yarn, washed to stabilise and knitted in a drop stitch variant of the wonderful Wingspan scarf - thus making it much harder to knit in the car (or anywhere else).

Mostly to distract me from the fact that it’s cold, that I haven’t yet finished my Mexican Cantina jacket - that I really should be doing my accounts - you name it, I’m being distracted from it :)

The unblocked and as yet unfinished scarf is very light and soft, slightly fuzzy as yet and deliciously non- prickly. A bit surprising that - I was expecting the mohair to have at least a little itch factor.

Yarn shade: Ancient Mariner - the colours and fuzziness remind me of the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

The Sun now rose upon the right:
Out of the sea came he,
Still hid in the mist, and on the left
Went down into the sea.

Photos from top:
Finished!
(Clockwise) Roving, batts, singles straight off the bobbin, yarn in the ball, two sections of Wingspan.
On the needles.
Closeup, unblocked.
See the short rows?
Closeup, blocked.

Yay! It is done! A light blocking with steam only needed. I’m surprised by how very big it is! Total weight 106gr.