Here's the thing with fading fawn fiber: if you send it to a mill or card it up without forethought, all those various shades of fawn will blend together = one color. I have plenty of alpaca blankets that I could spin into yarn that are one solid color. They are beautiful and all, but I love, I LOVE, the various shades in a yarn. And with fading fawn, you can do that without using any dye. All natural.
So when I look at a fading fawn blanket:
I separate out areas of the same color, and I flick them into their own little cloud. I end up with a basket of small, different color clouds.
Then I spin those into yarn:
That yarn can create products with variegated colors. Here is a
hat made out of Tehya's fading fawn fiber that is for sale on our farm's
Oak Haven Alpaca's ETSY shop:
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