Spinning wool

Finally removed blue wool from the spinning wheel. It was sitting there for almost a year. Somehow it did not work for me, although the yarn is very nice and soft. Maybe some time later....
Started spinning some old sliver from KnitPicks. It may became a garment one day...

Rainbow dilemma

This was my first again.

First locks, first carding.

I am not sure I did everything right, maybe this is the reason I am not quite satisfied with the result.

It was spinning with difficulties and ended up uneven and itchy (English Leicester).

In any case, I promised myself to try this again later with a different fleece. 

I spun the colours rendomly but I spun them too thin for using as singles. 

Need to ply.

My question is whether I should ply the wool on itself thus creating even crazier yarn or shoud I spun some natural wool singles and combine them with coloured ones?

Tour de Fleece

I cannot actually participate in TDF as I am not such a confident spinner and have not much to spin. But most of all, I have no TV channels to whatch Tour de France.

However, I can spin while everyone is TDFleecing. 

For this I've picked my first hand carded locks. I bought 3 oz. of Rainbow fleece to accompany my first cards, separated locks by colour and carded them. I have some doubts that I did everything right but at least I did my best.

Beautiful!

I tried to spin them picking up at random using what I think is long draw.

Not entirely happy. I was planning to make singles but it seems that I am spinning them too thin, again! 

And the yarn is kind of itchy. Will see...

Spinning frenzy

I have no idea when I will be able to spin it all but anyway...
Hemp to the left, nettle to the right and soy, bamboo, tencel, seaweed - centre bottom.

At the same time somewhere in the leaving room...
Wool

Yak

Cotton

Spinning alpaca

After my first alpaca practice with warm and cozy results I am trying to spin the same yarn on a cotton/linen core.
It kind of works...

Warm and cozy

The slippers are done.
They are knitted from the first yarn I ever spun on my spinning wheel - happy practice is here.
The Alpaca sliver was a surprise part of Louet S90 I gon back in April.

Apricot merino

And done!
Spun, plied, skeined and washed.

Apricot

Australian merino wool 18mk

Finishing my rayons

Yellow

Yellow and blue together

Now I need to decide what to do with them

Rayoning

Green + white combined

Now blue

Yellow to come.

Still spinning...

First I span my rayons in small portions. Piece of yellow combined with piece of blue for one single, and than green and white for another single.

And then I plied everything together.

Did not really like it. So, decided to sping each colour separately and then will see what to do next.
Green:

Meanwhile, learning to support spin. I did not have any support though, just my leg and sofa...

Spinning wheel practice

I was very pleased to receive a complimentary bag of alpaca sliver with my Louet s90. And as it was free I could learn spinning with second thoughts :-)
For the first exercise I span one thick and one thin single and then plied them together. The major problem as I see it was not enough twist, but I am learning.

Another training. Today I've bought some rayon fibers to learn how to spin synthetic ones. To make the task interesting, I bought four colours in hope to combine them in the process. So far yellow and blue. I suspect I still give less twist than necessary. Will see...

Dreams coming true

My new Louet S90

Spinning

Plying

And done

And now the time to really produce some yarn, because the first experience was just spining without drafting.