Fledgling Spinner

I have not been very holiday spirited this year. It has probably been a few years since I felt the full warmth of holidays…sometimes I imagine they are more for younglings who don’t have bills, work hours, and project timelines. This year, though, my mom is visiting for the holidays so it does inspire at least a smallish portion of enthusiasm for the season. Since I am spoiled having a fiber loving mom, I have already scored all of the knitting and spinning gifts for the visit as she unpacked her suitcase.

I am in possession of my first skeins of Noro and need to think of something to do with it (all I know is that I will not make a scarf since it wouldn’t get much play in FL). I have some lovely lace weight wool and sock wools as well. Fleece gifts were also tucked in there including some amazing silk with a handpainted spindle. I assume the spindle is a “lace” variety since it is smaller than any I have seen before although I could just be making that up – here it is next to a simple bottom whorl.

The fleece is absolutely amazing but I still feel like I need to master the weight and coordination of spinning on a drop spindle before I attempt it with silk blends…even of the soy silk variety. The recent brown mix soy silk has not been worked on much since I spend more time wrestling with the fine wisps not drafting or all getting bound up when I don’t want them to. I still need to practice on plain, 100% wool. It is definitely more forgiving. Maybe I should save the silks for the wheel for now….

In other craft news, I cut and sewed the fabric that came on Friday and put the new bag up in my shop. I am so excited I have asked my designing spouse to make another one for me. I hope everyone loves it as much as I do.

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