MY Yarn

Do you remember when I mentioned I was spinning yarn onstage during the opera?  I spun up about a quarter of the singles during rehearsals and performances.

This past week I finished the singles...

And turned them into a gorgeous 2-ply yarn.

It's so incredibly soft.

Basking in the sun, like a cat.*

And I can't quite get over the fact that I made it.  You know.  It used to be loose bits of fibre and now it's knittable yarn.  Weird.

But so, so cool.

The colour is hard to capture.  It's a charcoaly grey, much darker than it's showing in the other photos, but not this dark - with bits of brown and red in it.

I have no idea what I'm going to make with it.  Something cozy, with cables maybe?  For now, I'm just going to fondle the skeins and gloat for a while.

(Bonus: the first yarn I spun on my new wheel, using the fibre that came with it.  It was kind of an icky reddish brown and really sticky while I spun it.  Then I washed it and surprise!  A lovely neutral wooly colour, much softer and a bit fluffy.  But the first wash water was disgusting.  It took four washes and five rinses to get it properly clean!)


* Speaking of cats.  When I washed this, Conrad got up on the sink to watch the proceedings, and tried to run away with one of the hanks in his mouth when I wasn't looking.