Tuesday, May 31, 2011

My Very First Handspun Yarn!

While I am working on figuring out the settings on my spinning wheel to get it to wind onto the bobbin, I continued to spin on my drop spindle.  I had separated my Coopworth roving and was using about ¼ of it, so when I got to the end of that, I decided to quit and ply it.


my spindle full of singles yarn

I used this to unwind the spindle so I could ply it back onto the spindle

my spindle full of plied yarn

Rolled into a center pull ball
Yarn stats:
  • spun on a bottom whorl drop spindle out of Coopworth roving
  • Andean plied on 5/30/11
  • ~26 yds
  • ~1.75 oz
  • ~9 wpi

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