What's on my Spinning Wheel?

I've been longing to spin silk without problems for months.  When I first started spinning and attempted silk roving, it just kept falling apart as I was spinning.  What was I to do?  It was while I was a a meeting of the Arizona Spinners Group that I finally figured it out.  

One of the other spinners was spinning hand painted silk hankies.  A light bulb went on in my head.  The next time I was at Tempe Yarn, I spotted hand painted silk hankies by my friend Barbara, who also taught my dye class there.  I quickly purchased the color of my choice, and then set it aside.  I was being a coward.

Last month I was sitting at the monthly meeting of the Daytime Spinners of the Arizona Desert Weavers and Spinners Guild.  I had just snapped the head of a bobbin off of one of my Ashford Joy's bobbins.  I spent most of the meeting hand winding my ply into a ball.  When I was done, I took out the silk hankie.  I carefully figured out how to separate one out and began to spin.  It worked!

Lovely green and gold colors

When I got home from the guild meeting I decided to spin some more.  I took out this lovely BFL roving that I had purchased at The Fiber Factory.  It is gorgeous!  I spun up some of that too!  Blues and greens and purples!

Looking back and forth between the 2 different bobbins, I think a marriage is in order once I am finished spinning both of these lovely fibers.

Here is the yarn that I broke the bobbin with.  I had forgotten to loosen the scotch tension before removing the bobbin.  My son came to the rescue that night and the bobbin is all healed up.  I chain played the yarn.  The fiber used is a 50/50 blend of Cormo/Mohair from Juniper Moon that I hand dyed and then drum carded in some Firestar for glitter.

Happy Spinning!

Regards,

Karen

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