yup, I’m making yarn. I’m taking a spinning class at The Fiber Studio with Virginia Parent. Our first class was last Tuesday - this is what I made that night:
I then went back on Friday to practice and created this:
I forget what fiber we used that night. I think it was a Corriedale cross.
in between spinning classes, I’ve been working on the sunflower tam, which looks like this now:
last night was our second class, and it went a bit better:
Coopworth
Corriedale
both of these fibers felt a bit ‘grippier’ than what we used last week, so I felt a bit better about letting it get thin.
we played with the hand-cards with the Corriedale, which is ok. I like the rolags you get, but not so much the act of carding. I tried spinning directly from the jumble of fleece (picked out a bit first) a little towards the end, and it went ok.
I’m tempted to see what I can do with the alpaca locks I bought ages ago (was going to be a SP gift, until I reread her info and saw she was allergic/sensitive to it. bah!), or maybe I’ll spin up the fiber I bought at Shepherd’s Harvest last year. I’m planning to head back down to practice some more before our next class - there’s a spinning group meeting at The Fiber Studio this Sunday (it’s the first Sunday of the month at 2pm, if anyone else would like to spin. are you busy Deb?)
Hey - did you see Deb’s post yesterday over at Wound Too Tight? Her first spinning looked just like that first pic!
I’m planning to go but I don’t want anyone to feel like thay have to “teach me”. I’m currently still making the really twisty stuff - but I at least know where I’m going wrong. I think I’ll still wander down thogh - safety in numbers!
It’s eerie how similar first spinning looks!
Wow, what a difference between the yarns! FWIW, the first yarn looked just like Amy Singer’s first yarn (check it out on KnittySpin). I can’t wait to learn how…. Congrats to you!
Looks just like my first!! :-)
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