Deep Color Merino - Spinning!
I have resumed my acquaintance with my spinning wheel again lately and I am thrilled to discover that I love spinning just as much as I ever did, if not more.
I am a self-taught spinner. My spinning journey started with a single class on spindle spinning, and I took a couple of lessons on spinning cotton a few years after that, and everything else I know about spinning is from reading. As I started spinning again a little bit in the past year I found myself seriously lacking in confidence about my abilities. I thought I might either know a lot more than I thought, or almost nothing. But I wasn't sure.
The in October I took two classes with Stephenie Gaustad at Lambtown. If you ever have an opportunity to take a class with Stephenie I highly recommend her as a teacher - she's extremely knowledgeable, patient, kind and with a lovely sense of humour.
I took a class on spinning worsted style and a class on spinning fast, soft yarn in a long draw style. I was excited to both learn a lot of new information and also discover that I was a decent spinner to start with.
I came home from the class fired up to spin. I had some merino fiber from Deep Color that I purchased at Stitches (either 2008 or 2007). I had started spinning it in May of 2008 using a modified worsted style and it was kind of slow going. I decided to finish spinning this fiber before moving on to something else, which might have been a mistake because I couldn't use either of my new techniques because I wanted to finish this spinning in the same bastard style I had started it.
In any case I finished this yarn quickly and was thrilled with how it turned out. I would call it a fingering weight, it's two ply, and though it's the finest yarn I've ever spun it is soft and has a lovely drape.
I have moved on to another spinning project in the long draw that I learned from Stephenie and it is going well - but it's almost three pounds of fiber!
I am a self-taught spinner. My spinning journey started with a single class on spindle spinning, and I took a couple of lessons on spinning cotton a few years after that, and everything else I know about spinning is from reading. As I started spinning again a little bit in the past year I found myself seriously lacking in confidence about my abilities. I thought I might either know a lot more than I thought, or almost nothing. But I wasn't sure.
The in October I took two classes with Stephenie Gaustad at Lambtown. If you ever have an opportunity to take a class with Stephenie I highly recommend her as a teacher - she's extremely knowledgeable, patient, kind and with a lovely sense of humour.
I took a class on spinning worsted style and a class on spinning fast, soft yarn in a long draw style. I was excited to both learn a lot of new information and also discover that I was a decent spinner to start with.
I came home from the class fired up to spin. I had some merino fiber from Deep Color that I purchased at Stitches (either 2008 or 2007). I had started spinning it in May of 2008 using a modified worsted style and it was kind of slow going. I decided to finish spinning this fiber before moving on to something else, which might have been a mistake because I couldn't use either of my new techniques because I wanted to finish this spinning in the same bastard style I had started it.
In any case I finished this yarn quickly and was thrilled with how it turned out. I would call it a fingering weight, it's two ply, and though it's the finest yarn I've ever spun it is soft and has a lovely drape.
I have moved on to another spinning project in the long draw that I learned from Stephenie and it is going well - but it's almost three pounds of fiber!
posted by Marie at 11:02 PM
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