Anyway, I've been productive! For whatever reason I zeroed in on my Rhinebeck 2010 wool/mohair blend to start. I had just slipped a batch of singles off the spindle before the Tour started, so this is the actual amount I spun on day 1:
Not too shabby. Spindle spinning goes quite slowly for me, as much as I do enjoy it. This frankly isn't the dreamiest fiber to spin; I really debated getting it in the first place given my tenuous relationship with mohair, but it's really fun to see the colors change. I'm such a sucker for color changing anything! Everlasting Gobstoppers, traffic lights, you name it.
Day 2 was Sunday. That's when I watched tennis and did a bunch of spinning:
Well, it seemed like a bunch of spinning at the time.
Day 3 was July 4. Long weekends make for great spinning progress. It was pretty hot and super humid, so I forewent watching the hot dog eating contest at Coney Island and watched it on TV instead (What did we do before cable? Go outside when it's hot? Perish the thought!). I finally finished spinning the roving!
I was really surprised that the last cop (leftmost one on the lower needle) didn't match up colorwise with the first cop (rightmost one on the upper needle). I was sort of expecting it to be a cycle? Shows how long it had been since I looked at the first cops! I like it so much as a laceweight single I can't bear to ply it, even though maybe it'd be better suited for socks than lace. I wound all the singles off onto the niddy noddy, and behold, yarn!
I used a lot of hair conditioner to try and soften it up when I gave it the old wash-and-whack. I'm dubious that this method will work. It's not as if hair conditioner makes my hair soft in perpetuity; why should I expect it would do that for a goat? I still have to figure out the yardage. Now I think I'm going to focus on finishing my Loop batt that looks like Falkor!
Falkor wuuuut!? that's gonna be awesome. that's some kickass spinning there missy. and now i want some everlasting Gobstoppers!
ReplyDeleteIt's looking amazing!
ReplyDeleteI can't agree with you about the cycling, though... I'm a total addict :)
I +1ed it. Weird.
ReplyDeleteIs this that ounce-by-ounce progressive roving that was in the big bins? Maybe it's not a cycle because you didn't get the right number of ounces. :-) I still have my autumn-colored bump of this stuff waiting to get spun.
@Cleo: I think you've seen the Falkor roving! I got it at MDSW this year!
ReplyDelete@Stacey: I bet if I started watching cycling I could get really into it. I like the idea of watching the French landscape go by.
@JJ: That's the stuff! Did you get 4 or 8 oz? I got 4, and maybe that's only halfway through a cycle?
OOOOO! Very pretty! I should learn to spin just to partake in the Tour de Fleece! I love the blue/purple palate you're working with so far!
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