Don't Worry Spin Happy

I think that it has been well established that I love fibers for art and for craft -- fabric, yarn, roving, the animals that bear the fiber, etc. etc. I love it (or them.)

(We interrupt this blog post to admire how cute and adorable Norman is.)

Moving on...so given my love for all things fiber-ish, it makes sense then, that I would like to make my own. Yarn, that is.

Drum roll please...this is the first bobbin of yarn I have spun on my Kromski Mazurka. Is it pretty? not really. Is it even? definitely not. Do I love it? YES!! I can spin a lot prettier yarn on my drop spindle, but let's face it. I am the slowest spinner in the world on the drop spindle. I can't believe how much faster the wheel goes! In part, this is why we have the thinness, and the thickness, and the overtwist, and the undertwist, etc.

But this was a joy to spin! I think I finally get the "zen of spinning" I have heard so much about. Of course, this is when I wasn't fighting my wheel. But with Maggie Casey's book nearby, adjustments were made and spinning continued. This is four oz. of sheeps wool (breed unknown, just lying about) and it took me less than an hour to spin it up.

No plying with this -- why make it worse? Best to just set the twist and move on. I'll keep it with the rest of the crazy yarn that is sure to be produced as I improve my spinning on the wheel. Eventually to be dyed up together and make something funky and cool!