Hiya from a.,
For the past couple of weeks I have been learning some very important lessons about using a spinning wheel. The most important might be that those of us with bad knees, shouldn't spin more than 4 hours in a given day. I've also been figuring out the settings that I like best. I moved up to the faster setting on the medium whorl, and I like my tension a little bit tight. I love all the little tweaks that I can make to Sarah Jane in order to best suit the fiber and my capabilities. Here are some of the most recent results:
This is the orange/rust/wheat coloured roving that I got at Shepherd's Harvest. It is a merino/tencel blend, which fought me a little as I was spinning, as it is slick and was a little above my wheel pay grade (I should have kept it on the drop spindle, but I just couldn't resist).
Next is a dyeing that I did. It is a little darker than it looks here in the sun, but it came out neat. It is different than I expected as I ended up over saturating the colour, but that is the fun of dyeing your own roving, you can end up being surprised. To date this is also my most even on the wheel.
Finally we have a finished object. This is hand dyed, hand spun, and then a scarf I crocheted (I was too excited and all this was done in about 4 days). Check this out:
Oh yes, I made a striping yarn. Now is was a first attempt so the striping is a little soft, but you can clearly see that there are repeating colour patterns there that are stripes. How cool is that?
I'm planning to take a couple days off of Sarah Jane to get a bunch of sewing done, but I'm very curious what will happen the next time we play together.
Take care.
