I do love a bit of alliteration 🙂

This is the skein of Southdown wool fibre I started spinning at the end of this year’s Tour de Fleece and have now finished.

There is 120g, about 340m, 3ply construction. I spun it using my 4th speed on my Suzie Pro, which is about 13:1.

I have enjoyed adding to my knowledge of different breeds of wool. This was the first time I had tried spinning Southdown. It is a very bouncy fibre, and feels quite different to either Merino or Bluefaced Leicester. It is not super-soft but I think will be ok for socks. I plan to make the Having Hope socks by Diane Mulholland, and think the yarn will hopefully work well, giving structure to the cables and hopefully not being too multi-coloured to see the pattern.