Spinning Day Two

Pulled out the Faroe Islands carded wool from 62 Degrees North and started to spin with it tonight. It's less "hairy" than the alpaca/silk yarn and several times tonight I was actually able to get enough spin in the spindle that it spun on it's own. What a whoopie moment the first time the spindle was going clockwise without my intervention. Spent about an hour spinning. The Faroe Islands carded wool and indeed all the natural colour wool yarns from 62 Degrees North are complete organic and full of lanolin. Very sheepy smelling and rich with lanolin. Prices are dead reasonable for the high quality of the yarn.

The Maggie Casey book: Start Spinning arrived yesterday. Almost missed my stop this morning on the bus, I was so into it.

Action packed weekend ahead with the Dalai Lama on the mall tomorrow and then the teachings beginning on Sunday. Have a coordinator's class on Sunday morning. And all the ubiquitous household chores and laundry.

But in a few minutes, I'm going to curl up in bed with some knitting and watch to TV news talk shows on PBS.

Spinning At Last

After dinner, I pulled out my Ashford Student Spindle. Pulled off some fiber from an Alpaca and Tussah Silk roving and reviewed what I'd watched on the DVD last night. Here are the results:

I am now confirmed in my belief that the cheap dyed roving I bought two years ago was 90% of my problem, the other part was not knowing about drafting and parking. I can save that roving to thrum some mittens or something. I will continue to work with the alpaca and silk until I order some Black Mountain Welsh and maybe some BFL. My fingers are tired, but have that odd sort of lanolin feel.