After several years cheering my friends from the sidelines, I decided to participate in the fun this year. I joined Team Rookie, Team Spindle, and Team Spin for Peace. My only goal is to spin for at least 30 minutes every day including any days that I am traveling (I have one trip planned for July so far). Since I want to finish spinning the fleece I have been hand processing, I expect to spend at least 30 minutes prepping wool for spinning every day, too.
The fleece is from Elihu Farm in upstate New York. I bought it at the Massachusetts Sheep and Wool Festival in 2004. I enjoy spindle spinning and hand carding, it is the picking and wheel plying that challenge me. The fleece is a bit tippy and sometimes fragile, so I'm pulling of the tips and opening the locks by hand to prep them for carding. In order to end up with nice big skeins, I have been winding 3 or 4 spindle cops onto a nostepinde and wheel plying 2 of those balls. Today, I plyed the 4 balls of singles I've spun in the past year or so and made enough rolags for about 2 hours of spinning.
L to R:Washed locks, rolags, 200 grams of yarn. As always click for big.
This is a good start to my rookie Tour. Tomorrow I plan to spin a bit and try to finish prepping the current bin of locks. I'll also spend most of the morning on the sofa with a sock watching the Wimbledon Gentlemen's Final.
Tonight D and I are headed into the District to watch the fireworks from the roof of his building. We'll be about three blocks north of the center of the Reflecting Pool. I saw the fireworks crew setting up on Wednesday while visiting monuments with my sister's family.
I think I remember that fleece.......
Posted by: Juno | 06 July 2009 at 10:25