You Spin me Right ‘Round baby….
March 7th, 2005 at 8:30 am (spinning)
The Sheep to Shawl contest is coming. I’ve been doing some spinning lately to get prepared.
See?
This is Alice. She is sooooooooooo soft. I love handling the fleece. I’m definately not doing her justice with my spinning (see that floppy area on the right of the bobbin where I forgot to move where the yarn is wound around?). I know I buy yarn without always knowing exactly what it’s for, but I usually know what type of thing it’d be for. Usually my knitting yarn categories are one of these: Sock yarn, sweater yarn, scarf, gloves or mittens. I still feel pretty ignorant about the type of sheep/fleece and then what it would spin up into and what I could use it for.
That didn’t stop me from aquiring three new fleeces this last weekend in our sheep farm visit! I didn’t buy whole fleeces though - I split them with some other fiber addicts I know.
