This is my progress on the purplely roving I spun.I taught myself how to spin by reading & buying many books.The books say to wind your plied yarn on your skeinwinder,then tie it in several places,take it off,immerse in warm/hot water,blot it,then I hang it on a hanger to dry with a can of soup or something like that for weight.It is supposed to relax the yarn.Well,twice now I had trouble with it getting all tangled up.It takes me hours to sort it then,so as of now,I made up my own rule.Wind it in a ball right off the skeinwinder.I figure it relaxes enough on there.It says in the books not to store it wound in balls,but I am.I will block my work later if I have to.Those pretty hanks of plied yarn I`ve never been able to do.
Here is the fleece I carded in the summer that was part wool & part my goats mohair,if you remember I dyed it with koolaide.I started spinning some of it today while watching the birds outside.Not many coming to the feeder today.Anyways,when I have leftover singles of different colors on the bobbins after plying,I wind them on these antique bobbins I bought at the flea market & I store them in a wooden bowl to use later for my wool applique.
