Excited!

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!

To ply or not to ply

We choose...ply! Because I think knitting with singles is for better knitters than me at this stage.

Today in our spinning course we plied the singles we'd spun over the week (well, I plied most of mine...I apparently spun more than would fit on one bobbin!)

And this is the result!



Not sure how many yards this is but it must be a few. It needs to be washed and then we get to dye it next class.