Before I go and finish the housework (I'm even bleaching the kitchen counters!), I wanted to show you how my last fibre blend turned out.

First of all I grabbed everything that was blue or green room a box in the living room (some of the fibre my sister gave me for Christmas last year) and came up with:

100gm blues & green kid mohair
25gm powder blue angora (I have more but 25g was enough for this blend)
150gm of kettle dyed kelly green merino
145gm dyed tussah silk

I divided everything into 12 and put them in little bags as "batt kits" so they'd all be approximately the same.

Here's what's in each batt kit:

Clockwise from the bottom middle: wool, turquoise and green kid mohair, coloured silks, blue kid mohair, powder blue angora.

I wasn't too sure about the angora at first so I took one "batt kit" and carded it up. I knew the colour was right but I wasn't sure whether the fluffiness of the angora would work with the sleek shine of the silk.

Still not sure, I took a bit and spun it up.

and got just the effect I was after (phew).

When plied and finished I'll have 420gm of fingering weight yarn. It's a shame I have no idea what I'm going to make with it. I don't plan on carding and spinning it just yet because I have other projects to finish first but it's all ready to go when I want to start it.

When it's dry I'll post a photo of the sample skein.

Now I guess I'm off to hang up the 3rd load of laundry, bleach the kitchen and clean the toilet (ewwww).