Hmm....Okay, everyone else in the fiber universe seems to be blogging, and I really hate being left out...so I'm going to try this. I do have ideas and things I feel like sharing, so I'll give it a go and see how it goes!
I took some pictures of some of the stuff I've been working on:
Oh look, it worked! Second try!
This is a bobbin of singles I spun on my new (to me) wheel...a Louet s75 single drive wheel. I have no idea how many twists per whatever I have here...I'm not that sophisticated yet...my goal is to be able to spin yarn in several different diameters that is knittable. This is my thinnest attempt so far. I am afraid it is terribly overspun...my compensation for underspinning my last pile of wool (the white stuff on the header up there.).
Here is the roving, hanging up to dry in my laundry room--and a little batch of the yarn I plied from some of these singles...yeah, it's really twisty...but I'm not going to swaddle the baby Jesus in it, so I'll forgive myself for a while:
I dyed this wool with kool-aid, which I just love working with. For this roving I used orange, black cherry and grape. I really like how the grape kind of separated into a dark purpley color and a bluish shade. When the yarn dries, I'll knit up a swatch and scan it and see how THAT works for me!
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