Cormo, mmmmmm

I picked up this delicious fiber from Sue Reuser's booth today at Spinners Day at the Farm in Healdsburg, CA.

It is a Cormo sheep roving blended with some soysilk fiber (Made from the by-products from processed soy beans).  It is delicious! I'm striving for laceweight for the Melon scarf in Victorian Lace Today.  Since spinning this fiber, I've learned that the unblended soy silk does not draft well making unpleasant slubs in your finished yarn.

A Bonnie Tam for A Braw Man

Tam Finished













One of my most favorite and simple tam photos from Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Without Tears.

Cormo tam in progress

This is the tam in progress. I'm making what EZ calls a monster tam. It took the one skein to get this far. There is a hem already sewn down at the bottom edge so now all I have to do is ad a few more inches at 135 sts then start to decrease.
I have spun up another bobbin full...it's ready for the niddy noddy now. I started out with 1/2 lb of roving and I've sent for the rest of it which will equal a whole pound of roving. I'm curious how many Thumbelina bobbinfuls I'll get in total? I love this wool!