I sure want a spinning wheel!

Well, this weekend was all about spinning. Whatever free time I had, I found myself drop spindling. I added to my fiber stash last week when I went to Carolina Homespun, which is probably what inspired me; adding to my fiber stash and realizing it has become a 'stash' (which I had tried to avoid over-developing since I am such a newbie spindler and don't spindle much and don't have a wheel...read: it takes a loooong time to get through an ounce of fiber!)

But...I am proud to say that I did get this spun...


Spinderella Thrums In 'Breeze'...

It looks good to my amateur eyes...but I have to say that I spun some of the roving from my Learn to Spin kit (i.e., the very first fiber I ever spun and still haven't used up...). I filled a spindle and had another bunch of single-ply I had spun a while back. Well, much to my shock, that stuff that had been sitting un-plyed absolutely mystified me! It was LUMPY! Uneven, crappy...the stuff I had spun before that one looked so much better, that I couldn't figure it out. I'm thinking now, that it must have been when I decided that I needed to try and figure out how to do slubby, uneven spinning. I just couldn't get it real thick and slubby, but I got it uneven enough to shock me when I now found and plied it! The other thing in the back of my mind was that I also may have been trying to do 'uneven' to see if something I read (about it all 'compensating' and evening out once plied) was true. Well, I don't have pics right now, but I'll post later and you can see the crappy stuff.

Like I said, it was a spinning focus this weekend and I had to dig into my grab bag that I got at Carolina Homespun and ended up leaving behind! I had to go back yesterday and pick it up...

Fun, huh? I'm going to randomly spin this stuff up and see how it turns out. Probably just stick to my newbie 2-plying. I just can't handle plying more than that since I can't figure out how to keep all the plies from twisting into each other and tangling. I don't have a Lazy Kate and I don't even know enough about plying to want to figure out the shoebox thing that REAL spinners have mentioned to me!

And here's some new stuff I ordered from Little Knits...some DK Alpaca ("Atacama") and some Viscose/Cotton chenille "Quellon" from Araucania Yarns.



So again, I am soooo wanting a spinning wheel! But-Sock Camp comes first! And no Stitches West for me this year, either! Oh well...I definitely see a wheel in my future. Just not near future. BTW, Morgaine reminded me they do lay-away...don't you just love our "helpful" spinning community...