Today has to go down as a good day in spinning terms. Last night at knit club I started spinning the final 25g of Nightfall, finishing it before I got to bed last night... and no it wasn't a crazily late finish either. I have definitely got faster with my singles, and having finally learnt how to butterfly yarn up on my hands my plying has sped up too (though you would rather hope the amount of it I've been doing over the last couple of days!). So this morning I wound the singles on to the second bobbin ready for plying leaving me with this:
Sadly I've made the mistake of starting the plying on the Ebony IST and I'm not at all sure it will all fit!
On a more positive note a couple of parcels I've been waiting for turned up (finally thank you Royal Mail). The first was a book called the Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook. To say this looks stupidly good is an understatement, the only downside being that it is a hardback and weighs a ton for dragging round fibre fairs. Having glanced through it though, the hastle of carrying it about will be more than worth it. Wow, just wow.
My other squee moment was opening this parcel of amazingness:
I now have 400g of fibre purely to play with, guilt free if I make mistakes, just to get to know what the breeds are like and how to use different methods of spinning. Heaven in eight little bags.
Sadly I've made the mistake of starting the plying on the Ebony IST and I'm not at all sure it will all fit!
On a more positive note a couple of parcels I've been waiting for turned up (finally thank you Royal Mail). The first was a book called the Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook. To say this looks stupidly good is an understatement, the only downside being that it is a hardback and weighs a ton for dragging round fibre fairs. Having glanced through it though, the hastle of carrying it about will be more than worth it. Wow, just wow.
My other squee moment was opening this parcel of amazingness:
I now have 400g of fibre purely to play with, guilt free if I make mistakes, just to get to know what the breeds are like and how to use different methods of spinning. Heaven in eight little bags.
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