Because I have ordered one of these!
It's a Majacraft Pioneer and I can't wait for it to arrive! I've been spinning on an Ashford Mk1 Traveller loaner at home and using a Majacraft Suzie at my course. I really like the Suzie but between cat dramas and car dramas and various things, it isn't quite in the budget. The Pioneer is the next best thing and if I ever want to trade up to a Suzie or Suzie Pro, all the bits and pieces will fit. Plus my fellow inner nana embracer, Jo, has bought a Little Gem so I'll get to play with that too!
Tomorrow at class we're doing some dyeing. I'll probably manage to dye myself rather than the yarn!
This is one of the things we'll be dyeing...
Yarn flicked, spun, plied and washed by me. Not exactly sock yarn yet and it's kind of underspun in spots but yay, yarn! (From memory it's a Finn/Corriedale cross fleece which was pretty grubby). Currently spinning fron a Finn Suffolk which was coated and is much nicer to work with. Plus trying to master spinning top which the Traveller doesn't like so much!
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Excited!
Posted by M.J. at 5:34 PM
Labels: first yarn, spinning, spinning wheel
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2 comments:
Yay on the new wheel!
Re spinning top, tear a narrower strip off the side and try spinning from that.
It's ages since I've done any spinning but I love spinning from top. There's so many gorgeous ones around now! Although I've been very good in not adding to my fibre stash in a while :-)
Too many pretty things but that's why I want to learn. Don't have enough spinning time to start from fleece every time. Will make my strips thinner! Working with some merino right now that doesn't want to draft but it took a while to get the hang of it on the spindle, so I guess it's the same on a wheel!
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