My husband is so cute.

For the past few days while I’ve been using the Big Tom carder, he would occasionally wander in to my craft room and look around, then give the old Louet an empty crank or two. As if to make sure it wasn’t feeling left out. So I finally asked him if he wanted to make a batt and he said yes. I went to work gathering up only the manliest of fibers. “Make it camouflaged!” he said, so I got some dyed black Shetland, natural gray Lincoln, fluffy white Ramouillet, camel down, gray yak top, and absolutely no sparkles. (I tried to sneak in some chartreuse-green Coopworth but that idea was quickly nixed.)

I did the prep work by floofing all the fleece and layering the well behaved fibers around the more difficult ones, and he fed the fibers sandwiches into the machine. The results were indeed quite manly:

Since he was blasting Serj Tankian at me while we carded, we named the colorway Serj. It will be in the shop for the July 1 update. Maybe whoever buys it will use it to make a felted gun holster, or power drill cozy or some other stereotypically male item.