Spinning wise... I got my lovely Spunky Eclectic fibre, at the moment I have some black sheltland on one of my spindles. It's lovely although the guard hairs looked a bit suspect to start with but it's great!
I also did about 90-95 grams of this lovely white 80% merino/ 20% cashmere blend, spun it SO fine, I didn't want to nav ply it so I tried the 'Handy' plying method... ended up with a huge knotted mess so I had to unwind it as much as I could and wrap it onto toilet rolls. Slowly plying it up on one of my spindles, it's for my mother... she chuckled and said how a hand knitted and hand spun cashmere scarf would piss off her stepdaughter (the one who spends $2000 on a handbag and then complains about not having any money)
Those in the US the coin is about the same size as a copper penny, Canadians it's about the size of a 10 cent piece.I just finished doing the first lot of yarn for my mum, she fell in love with the fibre and so I decided to spin a length of one colour, go onto the next and so on then navajo ply it to keep the colours, the result...
A lovely, probably not-so-self-striping yarn. It'd be around a 8 to 10 ply and there's 80 metres of it... it's destiny is to be turned into a lovely Boogie Vest. The problem was I only had 300 grams of it and I knew with navajo plying it wouldn't be enough and I went back to the markets to get some more from the same woman, unfortunately she didn't have exactly the same colours, so this vest is going to be a bit of a mish mash of greens and browns... Mum of course doesn't care, she loves it none the less.
At the moment I'm spinning some lovely rainbow yarn for Aussie Knitters' 100 gram swap. This is it in it's raw form. I got this from the same lovely woman that I got the greens and browns from. And for $5 each I'm not complaining! It's beautiful soft wool and doesn't run a lot when I wash and wack it.
Off I go to do a bit more spinning.
