Spinning with pure French Angora

Hi All, I have been emailing back and forth with a woman my friend Joansie introduced me to, and talking about purchasing a bunn to replace our poor lost Goudy. (So named for his agouti coloring). Someone, either deliberately or accidentally left the door to his hutch open and he escaped. I've been searching and searching. Now, I'm looking to buy another bunn. I've never had one before, and they're addictive. Sweet, funny, tempermental... ah, but I digress.

Janice lets spinners spin her angora to help pay for a rabbit, as part of a barter. Then, she sells the yarn for a profit to help maintain her rabbitry. While I've spun angora blends, it is NOTHING like spinning pure angora. First, its slippery as hell. Very much like cria alpaca (which I love to spin). Both required extra twist to hold them together, and then I Navaho plyed (3ply) my small sample to make the following butterfly of yarn:

Tell me what you think of my effort. The fiber wasn't combed, carded, picked or washed. Please keep that in mind.

(ETA: The server is down for maintenance. I'll add the pictures as soon as they come up again)





Live well, and dye happy,

Leah.