bobbins of natural alpaca

The natural alpaca fiber won out as first on the wheel for 2012.  I love the natural colors.  And the alpaca practically spins itself. Those fibers slide past each other like butter.  Each bobbin holds about 4 oz. of spun singles.

Below are samples that I finger-plyed just to see how each combination would look:



I've decided to use the dark chocolate, fawn and black for a 3-ply yarn (bottom sample.)  It will be a light worsted weight. There's an extra bag of black fiber left to spin and I'll 2-ply that with the silver (second from top.)