Spinning A Yarn

I have so wanted to make my own yarns, the reason for the Alpacas was for there fleece

This week I finally had time to sit down at my spinning wheel and teach myself to spin armed with a couple of books and some Jacob Roving's I had got to practise with off I went, I haven't sat at my wheel for over two years and last time it was my first practise and spend any hours turning the air blue as I fought with the roving's, it was all put away until now

 

 The above picture shows what I was managing to do, I was so impressed with what I was doing

I spun up some white as well and plied the together

Then it was taken off into a skein 

Yeah I had produced a yarn it may have been of varying thickness but it was still yarn

next up was a bag of this I had in my stash I don't know what it is but I loved the colours

this time I weighed it and split it in half and off I went again

with my wheel spinning away I soon had two bobbins of a fairly decent thickness

they were plied together and now are in a skein waiting to be washed to set the twist.

I felt confident enough to tackle some of the Alpaca fleece, I grabbed a bag of Miss Daisy fleece 

I had a go without carding first, it was coming up fine but there was a few knotty bits

 

I then carded some of the fleece

its so light and airy

 I am now spinning it up

Its coming on lovely 

I am using my Ashford Kiwi 2 wheel 

I have been getting a lot of help and inspiration from this group

Spinners Support Group

There is a good mix of experienced and beginners some spinning on a wheel some with a drop spindle lots of laughs too, so if you spin or fancy spinning or just have an interest in yarn pop along