I have been bitten by the spinning bug in the last couple of weeks. I obtained some roving (wool/mohair blend) from Brown Sheep factory, put on my lace flyer, and went to town. About 8 or 9 ounces of fiber turned into about 640 yards of laceweight or light fingering yarn. I can't wait to decide on a shawl for this fiber. I still have about 5 or 6 ounces of this left, so I will probably spin that to a worsted weight for a cowl.
(When snow is all you have for an outdoors backdrop for your picture, that's what you use. It snowed a foot in Cheyenne Sunday and Monday, and a foot at our house in Fairplay Colorado during the same time period.)
I also picked up at Cowgirl Yarns, my favorite Wyoming LYS, 3 ounces of llama fiber, locally produced in Laramie. I sat down and spun it Thursday evening, then plied it Monday night while watching "24 - Live Another Day." (Great show, BTW. It was a stroke of genius to let it sit for a few years.) Anyway, here's what became of the 3 ounces of fiber. It took a while to spin, because I had to stop and remove vegetable matter quite often.
I tried to spin and ply this a little more loosely than I tend to normally, because it is such a fuzzy fiber that I don't want to lose that property.
I haven't yet decided what it wants to be. Since there are only 200 yards of it in fingering weight, it probably will become some sort of scarf or cowl.
Stay tuned for my next spinning adventure -- superwash yarn to spin to fingering weight for socks. Wish me luck!
