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  1. SD12 January: Rainbow Romney

    January 16, 2012 by sunrisesister

    Well, nothing like getting off to a flying start!
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    Not great photos, I am sorry.

    This was a very enjoyable spin. This Rainbow Romney ball from Kathy’s Fibres was already carded, pre-drafted and spun right off the ball. I did, however, overspin it by a fair bit. It’s hard not to. It’s a very different fibre than I am used to – a longer staple, and quite bristly. Definitely outer-wear wool! I picked this up at the Bendigo Show last year.

    The over-spun issue was quickly  solved by running the singles back thru the wheel, and I have left it un-plied. The colours would be too muddy otherwise. It’s a light fingering weight.

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  2. StashDown 2012!

    January 8, 2012 by sunrisesister

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    11 bumps of fiber, each a different type and colour. One is yet to be added – my Cormo from the Ton of Wool project :)

    Like last year’s Personal Sock Club there will be chosen at random each month, and spun into yarn. The sock club was a wonderful stashbusting exercise, but while my yarn stash is down, my fiber stash has grown very sneakily!

    Not included in the challenge, but as an effort to get to know my new and sadly neglected wheel, I spun up some BWM laps that a friend had hand dyed.

     

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    It was a quick and not very careful spin, but I definitely got a feel for Suzie, my new wheel. She is A LOT heavier than my Pioneer! But like all Majacraft wheels, easy to get the hang of in just minutes!

    Looking forward to my new challenge! I will be using the tag StashDown12.

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  3. FO: Spin, Little Speckled Hen

    September 12, 2011 by sunrisesister

    This braid seemed to go on FOR EVAR.

    But it turns out, that’s because I cannot read, or count, and it was actually 150 grams, not 100! It was a club shipment that I scored in a destash.

    So I had managed to spin it very fine, and decided even navajo plying it would give me a decent amount. I was right.

    Whoah. But look at the colours!

    My spinning has improved even more, and I am seeing that my plying is also coming along nicely. I dont over-spin as much, and the results are smooshy yarn :)

    Fabulous :)

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  4. A Ton of Wool

    September 6, 2011 by sunrisesister

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  5. Spin: Little Speckled Hen

    July 26, 2011 by sunrisesister

    I think I left my knitting mojo in Bendigo. No idea why. Perhaps the over-abundance of yarn and pretties has just fried my brain, and I don’t know where to start! So a little spinning is in order…

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    Fibre: EGMTK Little Speckled Hen in Merino.

    Something is happening with my spinning. Either my hands have now fully recovered from the surgeries, or practice really does make perfect.. Or maybe it’s the new wheel, but my spinning has gotten MUCH finer! This is incredibly fine! If I knit this as a single, it would easily be a laceweight.

    The down side is….. it takes FOREVER to get thru a braid of fibre :) I need to learn to spin chunky!

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