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Well since I am a knitter... and since I love knitting socks.... I thought
hey... why not spin my own yarn?! After checking into buying and rasing sheep, and finding out that I can't have sheep in
my back yard, large as it may be... I decided ok, fine! I'll just buy the wool and spin it anyway! I looked up info in the
internet, talked to many many people, and finally, I get a drop spindle, wool roving, and an instructional video.
I had watched the video a few times before I even got the spindle,
and roving, and thought oh it's easy! Sooooo.... yup you guessed it... I figured I didn't need to watch the video again! I
got started, got mad threw the spindle back in the box and kicked it. An hour later, put the video on, picked the
spindle back out of the box and tried it again!
To my extreme satisfaction, I had a strand of yarn about 2 1/2 yards long! Ok...
so it wasn't actually yarn... it was more like .... small rope... but hey it worked! I even plied it, washed it,
wrapped it around my hands and gave it a couple good snaps to set the twist and hung it to dry, all like the lady in the video
said, (go figure!) and I'll be darned if I didn't have a nice bit of rope... er... I mean yarn when I was done!
| My Drop Spindle, Roving & Video |
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| My Rosa Sterling Kingwood |
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| Top Whorl Drop Spindle |
| My first real skein (spun on a drop spindle) |
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| I used Kool-Aid and Food Coloring for the dye |
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