Monday, January 15, 2007

It's starting to look like yarn!

Thanks to the wonderful advice I have received at knitty.com, here's my spinning improvement. We just got back from a 3 day trip, and I thought I'd give this another try. It's my second spinning attempt. I'm so happy because...
It's starting to look like yarn!

Here it is, all wound up on my spindle. The tufts are the much thicker, much more irregular results of my first spinning attempt, not entirely hidden by the much thinner layer of new... yarn! I still can't get over the fact that I just made something that is beginning to look like yarn.

Next: Pictures of my knitting WIPs for the knitty blog stalkers. Maybe even a FO, the Lace Blanket of Doom is nearing completion.

I made yarn!!!!

Ahem. Sorry. Just had to say it one more time.

11 comments:

Bezzie said...

Wait, what did you make again? Ha ha, I kid! It's looking good!

cpurl17 said...

You made yarn! you made yarn!!

My spinning teacher told me that, in her years of teaching, it takes 7 hours of practice for a newbie to "get it". I've got about 4 hours to go...

weezalana said...

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Nicely done! :)

Nell said...

Go Batty! It looks great!

Zonda said...

You made yarn!! go you!! Looks a heck of a lot better than mine did, I'll post it sometime for a good laugh!!

Quilting is fun, sometimes a lot of work, sometimes not...unless something else catches your fancy like knitting has! :)

Anonymous said...

Yay yarn! Another spnning convert! Hooray!

Sue, aka seiding said...

Wow, that's looking good! Keep it up!

Andi said...

I'm afraid if I started to make yarn, I'd never get away. From it. But it looks like fun, and really soft.
BTW, did you see how many of those WIP's were on cables with no needles? I have the Denice Needles and the Knit Picks Options with extra cables. The only downside is "did I make sure to note which size needles I was using?"

Pinkwool said...

Wheee!!! Yarn!! Looks wonderful!

I am tempted to try spinning but I'm afraid I might like it. :)

Rain said...

You can really see an improvement, it looks great.

Anonymous said...

Keep up the good work.