Getting Loopy

 Yesterday a few daring souls got loopy at the Guild meeting and we were learning how to make a basic boucle. I need to remember to take along my camera in the future. The resultant boucles were wonderful and we had fun making them.
In the series of photos below I will show some of the stuff I was practising with before the class.

In the first shot is a pile of mohair I purchased just like this. Clean, dyed, ready for the creative hand.This glowing fibre is beautiful Texas angora mohair from Kai Ranch. 

The first step was to take each lock and flick open both ends. This was done just to loosen up the hairs. It also gave an opportunity to look for straw and burrs, of which there was very little. 

Off to the wheel I went. A moderate twist Z single was created. I did not worry about colour selection much, just doing a foot or two of each colour at a time. 

I've switched over to a natural grey mohair from a previous spin. (I do not know the source of this mohair). In the first ply the core of a pastel toned cotton thread was added to the mohair single (S). And in this photo the binder thread is already plied in too. I used a thin black sewing thread in polyester. (Z twisted black then plied in Z) 

A general view of the loopiness. The resulting elasticity of this grey yarn is wonderful. 

ooo la la

A couple of parting shots of the yellow-gold-orange-aqua and green boucle. Now, wasn't that fun?