YST Episode 157 The Pegosa Project

It's official!  I have joined the ranks of retirees.  Now it is time to 'spend' my stash, or as I have decided to call it, my retirement 'fund'. We start this with a very large blanket of alpaca fiber from an alpaca named Pegosa.  The first pound is washed, but not completely processed as I am using it to test various processing methods.  This podcast talks about combing with handheld combs, and the yarn that I spun from that top. Needless to say there will be plenty more to podcast about Pegosa's fiber in the next few months.  However I have talked about alpaca in past podcasts too.  If you are interested, here is a list of episodes with links: Episode 35  Washing alpaca Episode 101  Machine washing alpaca Episode 102  Spinning alpaca Episode 108  Dyeing alpaca Episode 123 Alpaca in the dyepots One other spinning project completed since the last podcast was fiber from Homestead Hobbyist, a lovely polworth/silk blend.