I took out the blob of wool roving I bought last year when I started playing with the spindle. Less the ounce or so I messed up in trying to figure things out, I had about 3.6 ounces of fiber (a little over 100 grams). I spun for a while and realized there was no way I was spinning all of that onto the spindle, so I divided it up about evenly (not sure if this makes sense given how unevenly I'm spinning right now, but it made sense at the time). This is half of it, spun up into one large, untidy cop (from the Old English word for head, summit, or peak, for the language geeks in the crowd):
I'm trying to be more careful about how I wind the yarn onto the spindle this time, but that's really the least of my problems. My main problem is that either my arms are not long enough or the floor is too close, because I feel like I spend most of my time winding on. Also, my shoulder hurts. Noel and I have been discussing spending some time making a simple wheel.
Anyway, this is where I was this morning: one skewer full of half my fiber, and a start on the other half. I'm going to use a shoe box to hold two skewers full of yarn for plying this time, to see how that works. I didn't have too hard a time plying my first yarn, but this is a much fatter ball and seems like it would be harder to handle.
I think this yarn will be a scarf. It seems like it might be enough for a decent sized one.
