Bellwether

Plus a spindle and plus a desire to not read an ARC equals:

105 yards of fingering weight silk yarn. I still have a ton of the roving left and I’ve learned a few things about this sort of handpainted roving and about working with silk.
First, predrafting is not only preferred, but required. It’s [...]

Look what came in the mail the other day:

1700 yards of laceweight wool from handpaintedyarn.com. It’s beautiful stuff, but I’m going to have to get my hands on a swift and ball winder before I can do anything with it; I was going to wind it by hand, but I can’t even find the [...]

I ordered my spinning wheel today. It’s a Lendrum double treadle. Unfortunately, it’s backordered, so I won’t get it until April or May. Obviously, I’m hoping for April.
I’m only a little bit freaked about spending nearly $500 on the wheel, too.

I have been to the two yarn shops in Lincoln, and this is what I got:

2 hanks of handpainted 70% mohair, 20% wool from Brown Sheep. The colorway is Forest Floor and it’s utterly gorgeous. It’s very sheddy, but it’ll make a nice scarf for someone. Not me, because I have enough [...]

About 114 yards of yarn:

I figure it’s probably fingering weight:

I also finished my first finished object from yarn I’ve spun:

Yeah, another iPod cozy. I like it, though.