#handmadeyarn

I am terrible at sharing my progress as a spinner and the projects I’m working on. What I want to share if just one of the projects I’ve documented from start to almost finished. I started off with two 8-oz braids of merino from @wonderlandyarns. And I did nothing with those braids for at least three months. They were too perfect. The colors were too beautiful. I could never spin them evenly or make yarn as thins and beautiful as the yarns I saw other spinner spinning. But while those two braids of fiber haunted the space under my desk, I kept spinning. I used other fibers. I did a spinning advent calendar. I bought cheap fiber and tested using it on my wheel within starting with a spindle. I made yarn I liked and yarn I’d rather forget about. Then finally after the turn of the year, I turned to those two braids and gave them a shot. The spindles could spin fairly consistent singles, but it would take forever for me to get through a pound of fiber. I got an espinner from @dreaming_robots and began to spin singles, but they were far from the even, narrow ones I had as my original goal. They were also over twisted in spots. But there is a magic when the thread is plied and suddenly the extra twists soften and the mess becomes a feature. Some might even say it’s a fingerprint to show it’s handmade. It’s ok to take time and set aside something you feel intimidated to do. Just make sure you do pick it up if it’s something you still want. It may not come out perfectly, but it will still be an accomplishment and a mark of how far you’ve come. #positivethoughts #yarn #handmadeyarn #spinningyarn #wip https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-k4o-Otn6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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