Saturday 18 July 2015

All spinning again I'm afraid!

I'm really into this spinning lark lol I've still been knitting on the white wallaby cardigan and the typhoon shawl but I'm really enjoying my wheel and my spindle too :) I intended on spinning for under an hour on Thursday and 2 hours later I realised I'd missed the zumba class I'd intended on going to lol but I'd spun up all my singles to ply later that day lol
This is the merino left overs from my previous post plus a little green to finish plying it 18g/13.71m
Started my first Shetland
Singles...
And the yarn :) 89g/69.49m of a 2ply 
This was a mini free sample from hilltop cloud and is really pretty :)
On the left is some left over singles from some fondant fibre rolags, and right is the spun up hilltop cloud sample. 
I plied them together for a rather contrasty yarn :)
I got 7.3m from about 6g :) The lilac of the fondant fibre isn't showing up very well but it is pretty, and has sparkle which isn't showing at all lol
More purple sample punis from fondant fibre, these kept looking blue so used a filter to get closer to the colour they are but not perfect, 15g/18.74m
Started spinning some sw BFL fondant fibre nests on my wheel :) colour is la la lupin and it's contrasty orange and blues with some almost white in there too :)
Singles...and will hopefully two ply this tomorrow as I've got new fibre and more on the way I can't wait to play with lol people need to stop being awesome and having stunning new colours and/or coupon codes lol
Spun up a sample of fondant fibre harlequin in the bone colourway, well the singles at least, on my snowflake obsidian spindle and will hopefully ply tomorrow too.
Some of my new fibre arrived today, so late I was worried lol but it's here and beautiful :) these are from owl about yarn, I got 1 each of (top) amethyst polwarth and (middle) djelibeybi BFL and 2 of (bottom) mid Atlantic BFL. I'm trying to decide whether to mix up and spin a full braid of singles and ply with some of my other owl about yarn fibre so it's a little contrasty...opinions...? All my stash is on ravely, though my old fibre stash is under handspun as I got it before I found the fibre tab in the stash section lol everything since boxing day is in the stash section under the fibre tab :) I know I should move it all over but it's too much effort when I know it's there lol
I've also got some sample sets form hilltop cloud coming and yet more fondant fibre as she had an awesome update today lol
I think...no I know, I'm obsessed lol and spinning adds to my yarn stash not reduces it lol though I'm thinking of spinning up some more merino and mixing them all up to make a super bulky hat or cowl for my son :)
I still need to work on getting thinner, I think I'm spinning fine but then when plied it's a lot thicker than I realise.
All my yardage is helping with stash dash and tour de fleece :) 
Happy Crafting!

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