Blue-faced Leicester, single spun at lace weight:
This isn’t handspun, but dyed by me for 2 swaps I’m in this month:
Both swap recipients have “autumn colors” in their “favorites” lists, so I went with some red-orange colors for them.
One of the items my grandmother left to me was a spinning wheel. It’s a “great wheel” (or walking wheel), slightly more than 3 feet across, and it has the wheel and a gear, but nothing else. The other day, I was able to bring it home in the Jeep– we have absolutely no idea [...]
I am going to have to draw out the Maryland Sheep & Wool amazement a bit, but I wanted to share this, because it is just about one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
This is a nice, heavy, supported (i.e.: non-dropping) spindle for spinning yarn. You turn the big wheel at the base [...]
In mid-January, I tackled some silk hankies:
which I bought in December at Pam’s store. Hankies are single silkworm cocoons that have been prepped and “spread out” into squares that are about the same size and shape as handkerchiefs.
I spun them on my drop spindle, into this lovely laceweight yarn:
There’s all of 2 grams there, but [...]