Spin Cycle

Hiya from a.,

I have been spinning yarn for a few months now, you've seen the posts.  I just thought I would take the time to show you how it has been coming along, in a big picture sort of way.   This is to date the handspun that I have made (with the exception of the moulin rouge, which was made into a nifty scarf):

It may be a little hard to tell from the photo but the handspun is arranged in order of thickness, with the blue colonial top on the left being my thinnest, and also most even to date, and the pink of the far right which is a mix of wools is a fairly chunky yarn.
I have a couple of photos here to show you in better detail the thickness of the yarn (I could discuss wraps per inch, but only one of the three people who read this would know what I'm talking about).

That is my over exposed finger, but it really lets you see how this yarn turned out.  3oz ended up spinning around 270 yards, and I still have another 3 or 4ozs of the colonial to play with.  Now you might be wondering how I know the yardage of the yarn.  I do not have a yard counter as those are expensive.  Instead I have this:

r.  recently purchased a three headed guitar stand (since he is up to three guitars), and I stole one in order to skein out my handspun.  I was able to set it so that one loop around is just a shade under 2 yards, which allows me to know roughly what I have spun (because I am a sad, strange little person I re-skeined all the yarn so that I could know yardage and so that they would all be the same length skeins). 

Now to show you something neat, here are two skeins from the pile.

This was the same fiber, spun on the exact same spindle, I just changed how much I drafted as a I spun, which led to the one hank being twice as thick as the other.  It should make for a fun project to work them together somehow.
Now I am a bit of a fiber floozy, so that when I get new fiber, I want to play with it right away.  Sometimes I am responsible and finish what I have on the go, and other times, I wind off however much or little I have on a spindle.  This leads to the pile of singles that I have floating around on various paper towel and what not rolls.

It ends up looking like the Island of Misfit Toys, but scarier than this is if I open the Mobile Spinning Station (and pull out the bags from the closet)

This would be what I have that still needs to be spun up (there is a maniacal giggle running through my head as I see that photo).

Enjoy.