Well my birthday money finally burnt a hole in my pocket and I bought a new supported spindle, completely with the intention of spinning up the second ply of the silk I'm working on... so much for good intentions! I also treated myself to these scrummy mix-and-match batts from Hilltopclouds with the idea of spinning up the smooshiest sock yarn I could manage.
Well as all good spinners know smooshy is probably going to need a woolen spinning style (yes I know worsted would probably be more hard wearing for socks but wearing them through is just a good excuse to make more surely?), and anyway I'd been getting better at spinning the silk longdraw so it seemed only logical to get cracking with the socks :) My first time spinning batts that aren't designed to create art-yarn and my first time playing with spinning from the fold. All in all I'm pretty happy. It's not horribly inconsistent, and anyway it'll be a 3ply so a lot of that will get evened out. Oh and a pretty shot of my newest toy too :)
Well as all good spinners know smooshy is probably going to need a woolen spinning style (yes I know worsted would probably be more hard wearing for socks but wearing them through is just a good excuse to make more surely?), and anyway I'd been getting better at spinning the silk longdraw so it seemed only logical to get cracking with the socks :) My first time spinning batts that aren't designed to create art-yarn and my first time playing with spinning from the fold. All in all I'm pretty happy. It's not horribly inconsistent, and anyway it'll be a 3ply so a lot of that will get evened out. Oh and a pretty shot of my newest toy too :)
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