Roc Day batts

My game plan is in place! I took out all of the Roc Day samples and divided them up into 4 piles for carding:

For the first batt I chose the Karakul (a coarse wool traditionally used for felting, rug yarn, or outerwear), raffia, hemp, and the "Tumbleweed Batt" (wool, mohair, bovine fur, llama, and raffia).  As soon as I saw all of the elements carded together I thought "bird house!".  I'll be spinning this one as a chunky single and using the "Felted Nest" pattern in the book "Knitalong - Celebrating the Tradition of Knitting Together" as a guide.

The second batt consists of the rest of the undyed wools/fibers, some of which are still "in the grease".  They contain Shetland wool, Wensleydale wool, Cotswold, Jacob locks, suri alpaca locks, raw huacaya, cria fleece, llama, camel/tussah silk blend, "meowpaca" (alpaca and cat fur blend), bison, Tibetan yak fiber, bison, pima cotton, and wolf fur.  I'm loving the way that the batts feel!  I'm planning on a two-ply yarn and think I might do a version of Namaste's "Sushi Hat".

The third consists of lots of the fun, colorful stuff!  It contains Moonwood Farm's lint batt, Desert Garden Farm's batt (nylon, ecospun, angelina, metallic thread, and icicle) and drumcarder gleanings, dyed cotton balls, ingeo, carbonized bamboo, Falkland wool, Faeryl's batt (Swalesdale wool, merino, possum, and donkey hair), Cotswold locks, tussah silk, cotton neps, throwster silk, sari silk threads, pulled recycled silk, a silk hankie, sari silk ribbons, satin ribbons, angora, a lone little green parakeet (?) feather, shredded Irish linen, fabric strips, and firestar.  This is going to be a corespun yarn, for sure!  I'll have to wait and see what the finished yarn looks like before I pick a project for it though.

Last, but not least, are the things that I wasn't quite sure what to do with.  I've got a roll of toilet paper, some plastic cording, tinsel, shredded plastic bag scraps, crinkled paper, hay netting, and antique corset laces.

I found a couple of youtube videos demonstrating TP spinning, so I know that it can be done.  I didn't want to add the paper to my other batts though as it can't get wet!  My plan as of right now is to try and corespin the TP around a crochet thread core, add the other elements in as I go, and autowrap it all with thread at the same time.  Wish me luck!  Oh, and be sure to check back next week for pics of the finished yarns. :)