{"id":145139077,"date":"2024-05-30T18:46:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/?p=145139077"},"modified":"2024-05-30T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:46:37","slug":"spinning-mon-coeur-targhee-bamboo-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/?p=145139077","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Mon Coeur Targhee\/Bamboo\/Silk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original pub: 2022\/02\/14<\/p>

Targhee is an American breed of sheep, developed at the Experimental Sheep Station in Dubois, Idaho in the early 1900s. They wanted a versatile sheep that would be good for wool or<\/em> lamb meat, so they chose foundation stock of Rambouillet (Spanish\/French\/German), Corriedale from New Zealand, and the British longwool Lincoln breed. This particular fiber blend was from the Nest Fiber Studio<\/a> fiber club in February 2021, hence the name Mon Coeur (My Heart).<\/p>

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I intended to spin this for a big handspun throw blanket I’m knitting. I think I have enough yarn but wanted to make a bit more just in case. Once I started spinning this up, though, I remembered that I don’t love targhee’s frizziness. I intentionally spun it a bit finer than the previous yarn for this blanket (a superwash merino) because if I recall correctly, targhee poofs up a lot in the finishing process. On the plus side, the bamboo and silk in this fiber provide a lovely smooth balance. In some places they have picked up the dye, but in other places it just looks like beautiful silvery threads in the fiber.<\/p>

After working on this project intermittently for a while, I really started to lose steam and abandoned it. Sometimes I lose my spinning mojo, for whatever reason. It always comes back though; this time it took about 4 months. The good thing is that when I started up again, I absolutely fell in love with the colors, and fully enjoyed the rest of the spin.<\/p>

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After spinning, plying, washing, snapping, and drying, I ended up with a little over 300 yards of chain ply. Somehow I forgot to measure WPI but I suspect it’s a light sport weight. Will need to measure when I get ready to use it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Original pub: 2022\/02\/14 Targhee is an American breed of sheep, developed at the Experimental Sheep Station in Dubois, Idaho in the early 1900s. They wanted a versatile sheep that would be good for wool or lamb meat, so they chose foundation stock of Rambouillet (Spanish\/French\/German), Corriedale from New Zealand, and the British longwool Lincoln breed. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145139077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145139077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145139077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145139077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145139077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145139077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145139077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}