Confession time
By the time I’ve spun up two bobbins of this: The carpet under my wheel looks like this: I have to admit, I was kind of hating myself for buying two pounds of this wool after it arrived. The only thing that kept me from truly hating myself for it is that inexpensive and less [...]
I’ve gone to extremes
My goal was to get at least 600 yards of very fine yarn from 4 ounces. I ended up with more than 1600 yards of 2-ply lace weight, which totally explains why it took me a freakin’ month to spin it up. I assumed I was just out of practice and spinning slower. Turns out [...]
So close to having yarn
I usually complain about plying. I like plied yarns, I like what plying does to yarn, and sometimes (once in a while) I don’t hate plying. It’s just that it took about 30 accumulative hours to spin up two bobbins with 2.1 ounces each of Shetland into very fine singles and I really want to [...]
Shetland Wool
My white BFL is supposed to be on it’s way. It was a good thing that I got paranoid after accidentally ordering from the iffy seller that I immediately found two different sellers and ordered more wool. The first new wool on the bobbin is 4 ounces of natural moorit Shetland. I’m spinning it fine, [...]
UPS has a soul
I’m as shocked as anyone else, even as I typed the title my mind is still reeling. The above capture is from my twitter feed on the 21st. I believe now that the people at UPS do indeed have souls (for now, if they lose my crap from Amazon I may once again rethink my [...]
My wool is closer, but not quite here
The sales receipt showed up in the mail. It looks like my order was processed on the 14th but no sign of the USP truck that will bring me all my wooly goodness. If it indeed shipped out on the 14th then it should be here on Christmas Eve. I hope the UPS website is [...]
I did it!
I put in a wool order with R H Lindsay on the 13th. I will have wool. Not fancy wool or expensive wool, but good clean carded sliver that I can actually spin. Depending on when they shipped it could arrive before or after the holiday. I’m so relieved. I was starting to believe that [...]
One bobbin full
As I spin up the camel and gold wool I have a growing concern that there might not be enough of this batch to make the hat. Then I filled up the second bobbin, there might just be enough. I was planning on doing contrasting bands in the natural color. I did dye some uncarded [...]
Spinning gold into yarn
My singles from the dyed roving are coming out a little fuzzier than I’d hoped. I’m adding a little extra twist for a harder more defined yarn. Sometimes dying does a little to correct the texture, this time that was not the case– I’m sure I’ll live through it. Pretty sure at least. Today is [...]
Wool, just plain white wool
I did dye some of the same stuff, a lovely golden camel-ish color meant for a friend’s surprise hat. Since I asked said friend for head measurements getting a hat in general will probably not at all surprise my friend. The kind of hat might come as a mild amusement. Shh! Top Secret. While dyeing and [...]