I have been spinning my little heart out. I love it. I can't wait to spin more. This has been so many firsts for me. I have been nervous the entire time. I still don't know if I am doing anything right but here are the results. Well mostly...
This was Mauch Chunky roving by Kraemer Yarns in Spice. 60% New Zealand Wool and 40% Domestic Wool. I guess I didn't get a picture of all 4 oz spun up, but here is an in progress one. I LOVE the spice color. It is like an orange heather color. Jake thought it looked brown, but it really is orange. I had tried other roving that I had (that came with the wheel) and just kept having problems. I bought this at LYS a couple months ago because I completely fell in love with the color. I hid it in the back of my "craft" closet. I thought that I would get it out and use it once I learned how to use the darn wheel. But I was listening to a podcast talking about playing with your yarn and how when you are playing with it you aren't wasting it. You are enjoying it. So I marched my tushy up to the top of the stairs, opened the closet and fished out the roving from behind the ironing board. I am so glad I did. It worked up so wonderful. It isn't perfect because this was the first time I had spun, really. After I was done I wanted more. I remembered that I had a huge bag of 100% Blue Faced Leicester hanging around so I tried it to ply with the Spice, even though I don't like the colors together.
This is the BFL single ply. I had some issues with it. Overall I was not very happy with it. Spinning it was nice. It felt amazing sliding through my hands. It was so smooth. But I just couldn't seem to get the hang of how much twist to put in to it until I got down to the point that I had decided that I was done with it. I spun it much smaller than I did with the Spice, so I didn't spin as much of it. Of course I had an 8 oz bag of the BFL. I probably have 6 oz or so left over.
This was Mauch Chunky roving by Kraemer Yarns in Spice. 60% New Zealand Wool and 40% Domestic Wool. I guess I didn't get a picture of all 4 oz spun up, but here is an in progress one. I LOVE the spice color. It is like an orange heather color. Jake thought it looked brown, but it really is orange. I had tried other roving that I had (that came with the wheel) and just kept having problems. I bought this at LYS a couple months ago because I completely fell in love with the color. I hid it in the back of my "craft" closet. I thought that I would get it out and use it once I learned how to use the darn wheel. But I was listening to a podcast talking about playing with your yarn and how when you are playing with it you aren't wasting it. You are enjoying it. So I marched my tushy up to the top of the stairs, opened the closet and fished out the roving from behind the ironing board. I am so glad I did. It worked up so wonderful. It isn't perfect because this was the first time I had spun, really. After I was done I wanted more. I remembered that I had a huge bag of 100% Blue Faced Leicester hanging around so I tried it to ply with the Spice, even though I don't like the colors together. This is the BFL single ply. I had some issues with it. Overall I was not very happy with it. Spinning it was nice. It felt amazing sliding through my hands. It was so smooth. But I just couldn't seem to get the hang of how much twist to put in to it until I got down to the point that I had decided that I was done with it. I spun it much smaller than I did with the Spice, so I didn't spin as much of it. Of course I had an 8 oz bag of the BFL. I probably have 6 oz or so left over.And Here they are plied. I am just about done with everything. My yarn is in the sink as I type waiting for me to whack it and hang it out to dry. I am so excited that I could potentially squeal right now, but since my husband is sleeping off the pains of snow (I think I married a bear).
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