Monday

natalie · Monday

Good morning!
I hope you all had a good weekend.
Only 11 days to go before I get this horrible cast off my left leg. It isn't sore now, but darned inconvenient and itchy.
This morning I'm going to wash the skeins I made at the weekend and get the kinks out of them.
I plan to spend the next week trying out some of these new fibres (the bamboo and soya) and trying to spin more texturally, if you know what I mean.
In a few weeks time when I'm un-casted, I'll be back at work full time again, so I really want to make the best use I can of this time.
Has anyone else got plans?

natalie

Catherinechaos

Have spent today spinning and carding a not very good alpaca with a bluefaced leicester. I didn't realise alpaca had grades so have made a bit of a mistake with mine. Anyway, have lots of the blueface leicester so at lease I can soften it a bit.

Do you ever get sore wrists when you spin. I spun loads for a jumper a while ago and got repetitive strain injury - can you believe it! I think its cos I'm self taught and I think I spin incorrectly.

Cathy

natalie

I don't get sore wrists, but I have been aware of a bit of stiff thumbness over the weekend.
The alpaca/BFL mix sounds interesting. Can you post a photo?
I've never spun BFL, is it easy to spin? I know it looks curly in the shop, does all the crinkliness vanish when it's spun?
Today I finished skeining the Swizzle coloured roving (almost all of it is gone now) with the blue yarn, so I've got about 150g to play with and I need a new project to use it up on.
Then I decided to try my first slubby arty type yarn.
Well the wheel gobbled it up and I discovered that I can spin a fine thin yarn, and a slubby-on-purpose slightly thicker one, but I can't do arty-farty-jumbo yarn at all.
I did manage to make a small length of yarn, which I'll take a photo of later when the camera battery is charged up, and I think I'll keep it, just as I have kept my first ever handspun, to look at from time to time and remember where I started.
I do however, have a new love.
Doreen, who owns www.scottishfibres.co.uk is a member of my guild and I bought 50g of merino/silk emerald green roving from her a few months back, but have never used it until today.
Well, it is gorgeous. It slithers through your fingers as you spin, and is very forgiving, all the lumps and bumps get smoothed out into shiny silky yarn. I am definitely addicted, and I want MORE!

natalie

I have just put the photos on the blog.

feltedfibers

Hi Natalie, You mentioned "but I can't do arty-farty-jumbo yarn at all. " (not sure how to reply on this forum yet Crying or Very sad

) your comment made me giggle, I am new to spinning and that is all I am turning out at the moment, I am getting better at it and the yarn is getting thinner and not so lumpy bumpy but I have a long way to go yet so will keep on practising and reading the book!
Jenny in North Wales.

Catherinechaos

Enjoy the jumbo yarn while you can - once you can spin thinly, its almost impossible to go back!

natalie

Peter, from twistfibrecraft, told me that lumps are good, people pay more for lumps!

natalie