Roving
Spinners, where do you get roving from? By the end of this week I'll be through my 8oz bag of Coopworth from Copper Moose and I'm wondering what to get next. Can I try Merino this time, or should I stick to another sheep? I'
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Spinning
A collection of 154 issues
Wheel spin
Louet S10 ST, you are a harsh mistress. Jolly nice spinning wheel, very simple look, but she is kicking me around the room. The yarn I spin on the wheel is thinner than on the spindle. Much thinner, to the point of breaking. And viciously over-twisted. But fun! Carol, spinning
Projects and plies and roses, oh my!
A pair of socks hits the mail tomorrow, heading for my mother in England (KnitPicks Simple Stripes in Storm, 9st/in on size 1 Addi turbo), hope she likes them. The colour seems to be discontinued, but it's a good yarn, and another chunk of leftovers for the
More spin
I got two spindles of Coopworth done in two hours last night. I think it was more even by the end of it. Need to take more time with the drafting and make a thinner yarn. I'm not taking into account that it has to be plied, so
Second spin
I tried the dark Coopworth from Copper Moose, and it was a lot easier to spin than the homework roving. Had to split it into three to draft, but the spinning went faster this time, and now I have two balls of yarn:
I'm going to spin another
First spin
I did it, I actually made yarn. Or rather, I made some uneven singles that may or may not function as yarn once I've finished my homework and plied them. This is my classwork on the left, and my homework on the right:
The roving comes from a
Your mission, should you chose to accept it...
I got the call Wednesday night, I've been waiting a month for this. Spinning class starts on April 15th at the Weaving Department in Myer's House, and I'm signed up. Got my spindle, got my roving, made one disasterous attempt at spinning that ended
Mail with added fibre
Two parcels in the mail on Wednesday and one on Thursday from Norma. I love getting mail.
From left to right, the big bag of roving is Dark Coopworth from Copper Moose, and the label says it's from New Zealand, which makes me very happy. It's
Smitten
(If you see anything odd here in the next week or so, it's just me testing out a new theme.)
Finished one of the Bittersweet mittens on Sunday, here it is posing with George, my pet roving:
I made some changes to the pattern (start with 4 less
Knit 1, crochet 2, spin!
Rox gave me a birthday present at knitting group on Saturday: a skein of KnitPicks colour-your-own sock yarn, another of Wool of the Andes in natural, and some Kool-Aid for dying! Having done some research on various blogs, I think I'm going to try for a long stripes