Friday, July 8, 2011

PROGRESS? not!

To start my adventure into spinning, I got this stuff from Starlyn ...

After a bit of struggle and MANY YouTube videos later ... I actually got something on the spindle. (not the green yarn, the gray stuff)


Here is it off the spindle and wound around the seat of my high chair.  It's a beautiful high chair, a family heirloom. I could go on and on about the high chair - it's much nicer than the yarn I spun.

BUT - I did get yarn spun!

For a very brief minute, I thought I'd switch to the "good stuff".


Not so pretty ...

But - I'm not giving up. I did manage to spin all the gray and next I'm going to do the brown. Then - I have to ply. OK - just typing that made me sweat. PLY ... I have to watch more videos.

2 comments:

Susan said...

Oh Mary, you must stop tempting me with these posts about spinning! I do not need another fiber hobby, but it looks like so much fun and how neat would it be to knit something with yarn that you have spun yourself???

Donna Badgett said...

Step away from the wool...