Spin Spin Spi– ::dizzy::

The replacement part for my spinning wheel arrived early this week. It is all perfect and lovely now!

Needless to say, I’ve been playing with it whenever I can. My very first bit of yarn is a sad little affair. But my second….

I was actually using some new wool that was marketed for purposes of needle felting, not spinning. But hey, roving is roving, I said to myself when I bought it. And it seems I was right! Haha. Or at least lucky, anyway.

This second bunch was tri-coloured: cream, turquoise and navy blue. I really like the effect. It’s a subtle almost-heathered-but-not-really variegation. And when you combine the solid and the multi-coloured together….

It’s actual, honest-to-goodness knittable yarn! I’m indecently pleased with myself, especially given how fine I managed to spin it. It’s not even, but it’s not nearly as slubby as I was led to expect my first attempts to be. Nor as thick, obviously. And when I weighed it:

Exactly 50 grams. Woohoo! Of course I haven’t the first clue what the metreage is, but that’s okay.

A bit more practice, and I’ll be ready to spin the scrumptiously gorgeous turquoise and silver merino/silk roving I got for my birthday.