My First Handspun Yarn

Wow! It’s great to be back! Had technical difficulties with the home computer.  It’s all better now, so I had to show off my latest project: My first homespun yarn!

 I tried Navajo Plying first…but it wasn’t exactly a success:

I plan on practicing more with this turning-a-single-into-a-3-ply-yarn-thing.
What’s on the needles: My own design socks. After they are completed, […]

Here’s Elizabeth

Here’s my new spinning wheel…Elizabeth!!Okay, I know it’s an Ashford Elizabeth 2, and Elizabeth isn’t too original, but I really like the name Elizabeth, and actually, it fits

I also got a lazy kate and 3 bobbins with the wheel and as a bonus gift, I got 8 oz. of beautiful copper colored Corriedale […]

My New Spinning Wheel

Oooh! Look! See what my sweet hubby just ordered for me:

          ASHFORD ELIZABETH 2    
Isn’t she gorgeous?! He ordered her from the Village Spinning and Weaving in Solvang, California.
Also, I got (as a bonus gift w/the purchase of the wheel):
“two (2) extra bobbins in the same finish as your wheel, an Ashford 1.5 meter niddy-noddy, & […]