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June 20, 2005
I'm spinnin' Baby!
Yep! I am! Wahoo! What was I waiting for? Some one to show me what the f**k to do! You have already seen my first try. But let's just recap shall we?
Ahhhh, the look of first time spun yarn! All bumpy and lumpy and BAD. Now we have my second attempt
A yarn by a girl a little more sure of herself! Not bad, not bad!
Next we have..................
wait, what's this? I would say the girl was a little too cocky! Now she has too much twist in her yarn! What is a girl to do? She calls Rachel and Rachel calmly lets her know what to do. So she happily moves on to this
Okay, the girl is back on track, a little......it's all in the tension and the twist......yeah sure!
Let's revisit that over spun yarn
Looks like something my cat has coughed up doesn't it?
Posted by beth at June 20, 2005 12:14 PM
Comments
woo hoo! spinning! beautiful! never mind that, um, curly yarn, you could just give it a brushing and sell it as fun fur, maybe?
Posted by: kris at June 20, 2005 02:10 PM
Wow, look at that! Not the over twisted stuff but the other stuff. It looks awesome! Just like something you'd buy in the store.
Posted by: Erin at June 20, 2005 02:21 PM
Interesting, even for a non-spinner like myself! so what happens once a yarn is overspun? Can it be undone, or is that it?
Posted by: Diana at June 20, 2005 02:26 PM
Wow! I wish the hell there was someone around here to teach me. I've got the roving, got the drop spindle, and I'm terrified to start. Luckily some of the roving is in my most unfavourite colour, so that's good for practise, anyway...I can create a teal hairball ;-)
Posted by: Lee Ann at June 20, 2005 06:44 PM
Is it bad if it surprises me that I have any clue what I'm talking about? I'm glad it worked! Very beautious :)
Posted by: Rachel at June 21, 2005 06:04 AM
I have tried drop spindle many times, and I can't get the hang of it! Yours looks great.
Posted by: Lolly at June 21, 2005 09:11 AM
u go girl....i'm so proud of you....it looks great...well all except the giant hairball
Posted by: Lemon at June 21, 2005 10:31 AM
Personally I think you should sell it on Ebay as the next great novelty yarn. People will by anything if you give it a kicky crafty name.
Posted by: Rebekah at June 21, 2005 11:23 AM
I am impressed! It looks good!
Posted by: Stacey at June 21, 2005 11:31 PM
Well done! You are doing great!! You even inspired me to start studying my spinning books last night!!
Posted by: Audrey at June 22, 2005 07:24 AM
Congratulations! I can't even imagine spinning anything, let alone producing such great-looking yarn on my first attempts.
Posted by: ronke at June 22, 2005 11:53 AM
Your spinning is coming along nicely! Why don't you make a two-ply out of the over-spun skein. It will help tame it. Just make a center pull ball out of it and make the ply from both ends. Or knit with it and see how you can make bias knitting from reg st st. If you then spin some in the opposite direction and knit that on top it will skew the opposite direction. It is a fun idea for a zig-zag scarf. The other thing you can do is hold two singles that are spun in opposite directions and knit with them and they will act like a balanced yarn. All fun things to try!
Posted by: Brooke at June 22, 2005 02:49 PM
no, it's wonderful! my first yarns looked just like that. keep on truckin, i can't wait to see what you come up with.
oh, and hi!
Posted by: jacey at June 27, 2005 06:18 PM
well you must be spinnin away....haven't heard from you in a while...busy at work?
Posted by: Lemon at June 28, 2005 02:07 PM
That looks similar to my first spinning attempts. Way to go! Looks like you are well on your way.
Posted by: Venus at June 29, 2005 10:24 PM
