"Gold is heavy, straw is thin. Turn the wheel with pixie purr; spin, spin, whir, whir!"
Okay, so NO you will not find me quoting Rumpelstiltskin while I spin; it just came to mind...
I am slowly getting back into my spinning habit. Last summer I spun for about five to six hours every day, but then, I didn't have 6 goats, a cow, and a flock of chickens, like I do now. ;) I'm content if I can spin for about three hours everyday.
Projects that I'm spinning right now are two alpaca fleeces, one Babydoll Southdown sheep fleece, 7 lbs. of Dorset sheep wool, and I might be getting some Coopworth sheep wool soon.
I'm still hoping to start dyeing wool by summertime. I have a whole sketch book filled with what I call "colorways". In short, it's just a bunch of organized ideas for dyed wool. 'Sands of Re,' 'In Dreams', 'Puget Sound', 'Lost at Sea'.... These are all names of skeins yet to come... Yarns dyed brilliant colors, beads plied into the silken strands, lace weights, fingering weights, bulky weights.... The possibilities are endless!
And so, these rainy days go by.... My spinning wheel is getting a workout once again, and slowly, slowly, skeins of yarn are appearing in my yarn basket....
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