Random Bursts of Creativity

here is a map of the path of the eclipse (from timeanddate)

I fell off posting a bit there but I’ve still been spinning. I was mostly working on the same batt and only really had chance to spin in the even so by the time I was done for the day it was too dark to take photos. But the batt single is finished! Today I plied the green whiteface woodland from the other day, and I’ve also plied my spindle spin but it’s too late to wind that off the bobbin so pics of that tomorrow

Tour de Fleece has been going well this year. I'm happy to not be on an organized team but rather engaging and sharing with the groups I frequent the most and loosely following the Tour.

Here are some yarns I've been working on since the beginning of the month! Some are long-term projects that are finally coming to fruition, and some are new. I'm really pleased with my progress in making yarn, learning new techniques, and hybridizing techniques to work better for my spinning style.

for my challenge today - a taste of spindle time while on the regular family video call, and then powering through and winning at extreme bobbin chicken with my sock spin! genuinely down to the last gram of fiber I wasn't 100% sure if I could make it all fit without hitting the hard structural limit of collapsing into the brake band and tangling, but I pulled it off!!!

I admit, I barely spun anything on day 13. Instead I had a friend over to work on our all-stars run on Mario 64 we started after the last surgery I had. I spun about 10g maybe? on downtime.

For the weekend I went to the next bigger town and visited two dear friends of mine. I threw some wool into my drum carder beforehand so I wouldn't go there empty handed. I didn't get around much to spinning, but I did some more supported spinning practice! Somehow I got a feeling like there is no progress :(

Today I finally finished blondie here:

Another insane craft day today. 268g of yarn spun and plyed, another 50g plyed and two bowls of yarn soup made.

At least I think that's where we technically are!

I plied the blue yarn and skeined it up, along with the white yarn. This is another one that I'm hoping will fluff up a bit with a wash, but I'm going to wait to do that once TDF is done.

I'm really happy with how both of these turned out!

I had a tiny bit of two bobbins left over so I chain plied them. Why does it seem like the coolest colors always end up left out of the main skein? I really love the blue-green in this little guy. I keep thinking of new colors I want to play with and teal is really up there.

I'm pretty sure the most recent roving I finished was only dyed with yellow and blue, but the colors have blended really nicely into green in a lot of places. I'm sooo happy with how these look so far. I've played with blue and green roving before and it always looks so lovely.

Last but not least, what I currently have on the wheel. I didn't want to split the rolags into 3, so I'm just going to chain ply.

After several days of letting it rest while I spin more, cleared my bobbin so that I could ply the next round.