I am, however, having a torrid affair with a man named Ashford.
He's lovely, isn't he?
The big hunk of fleece is what I'm currently spinning. But here's a little photo journal of my progress so far.
This was the end of my first day of spinning:
Pretty good, but we were given some really nice tops to spin, so that helped.
This is the same white wool, and some grey wool too, plied and washed:
The grey was a lot coarser. And a lot harder to spin. It shows.
After my second class, when the instructor checked over my wheel and pronounced it fit to spin, I found some roving in a box with all my bobbins and other spinning accessories. The wheel and the roving used to belong to my husband's grandmother. The roving must have been at least 5, maybe 10 years old, but it spun up quite nicely (despite my questionable skill). I dyed it with blue and green Kool-Aid, and I'm planning on knitting a scarf for my husband's granddad out of it.
It's not quite as bright as the picture shows:
Class #2 homework- beautiful, but very sticky, grey coopworth. Spun, plied and washed (actually a little over-spun, over-plied, and still wet):
Today was the day we got to spin alpaca. It was baby blue, and looked just like cotton candy. She didn't give us much:
The colour is not quite true. And that is a quarter beside it, for reference. It's a really tiny ball.
Lastly, this is my homework for today (class #3 of 4). This is what I've spun off the big white puffball in the first picture:
I think I'm improving. I think I'm in love.
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