Just a little spinning finished up. The fiber is from Spunky Eclectic. This is a wool blend which is very nice and economical. I like to buy this and spin it for my charity projects. This colorway is called Neopolitan - for obvious reasons. I divided up 4 oz of the fiber and spun it two different ways, just as an experiment.

The first skein is a 2 ply, just spun and plyed at random. 116 yards, 12 WPI.

For the second skein I spun the singles at 24 WPI and Navajo plyed. 68 yards, 10 WPI. When I was plying I noticed the color runs were pretty short and that made the Navajo plying more difficult. I had split the roving lengthwise fairly thin. It would have been better to keep it thicker and had the color runs come out longer. Oh well, live and learn.

 

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Here are two little skeins from my new-found spindle love. When I first started spinning I had spindles but could never get the hang of it. I bought my wheel and never looked back. Recently I spied my lonely spindles gathering dust and decided to try using them again. Just a little fiber I had laying around - the light color is a corriedale and the dark is Jacob. Spun on my Bosworth and Emily spindles, both plyed on a larger Bosworth.

 

These are in-progress shots of my never-ending giant granny square afghans. The top one is made with my handspun scraps. I plan to just keep knitting on it until it gets really big! The bottom picture is the same thing in regular yarn scraps, mostly wools.

 

 

Here are two sample squares for the afghans I’m crocheting for two of my granddaughters. One will be with the black background and the other with the white background. The girls are sisters and I thought it might be fun to have the blankets the same, but different.