Thanks Wanda, for your kind invite to join the group of weekend spinners. My weekends are usually very busy days, and with the nicer weather coming along, I will most certainly be out in the garden, but one always finds a little time for spinning ...something! This weekend found me spinning at the Great Wheel....
I have finished spinning all that I had carded up of the finnsheep/angora blend. I am spinning a cop of the blend, and then spinning a cop of finnsheep, and have been plying them together.
I also made myself a lazy kate for plying the cops. I was having trouble with them when I turned them on their sides, so I have fashioned a method where I can stand them up. It is working a little bit better, but I still need to make some modifications to improve the design. The cops don't spin freely, and I think they need a disk to ride on, so I will cut them from the plastic cutting boards, and see if that makes a difference. Currently, I slip the cop off of the spindle and directly onto the double point needle, which rides in the lazy kate.
So far, I have a total of 240 yards of the blend. I'm still uncertain about what I will use it for, but one thing I do know is that I am keeping this for myself. If I get enough, I may decide to knit a sweater/jacket.
3 comments:
Gardening in the early hours, spinning in the evenings. :-)
The angora/finnsheep yarn is lovely. I vote a cuddly sweater.
I look forward to hearing more about your great wheel, I checked your blog and read the 3 posts mentioning it, but even if you havent any weekend whirling to show us I know I'd love to hear more about the great wheel and see some more photos of it.
Oh that looks lovely and I bet its soft also. I'm with Jo a sweater or jacket would be lovely
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