I've somehow managed to not post about much of my spinning and other fibery hobby time during most of September. Well, it was a busy month with other things, including taking up some Facebook games, which is totally pathetic, I know. Also, I took two AREs, so that has to count for something.
Anyway, this will just graze over what I've been doing. I've put it in the extended entry because it ended up being a LOT of photos.
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First, I spun up three bobbins full of singles from the black alpaca.
That seemed to take forever, in part because I spent precious little time actually doing it while doing a lot of complaining about how dirty the alpaca was. I finally finished the last one last week.
From that I have thus far plied two skeins, though at least another full bobbin worth of singles awaits.
Part of why I delayed so much on the spinning was that I was finishing this shawl:
Whereupon I started a new shawl (Evelyn Clark's Shetland Lace Shawl):
That's using my spindle-spun merino/silk yarn.
And a cardigan knitalong (Diminishing Rib, which is in one of this year's Interweave Knits):
I also started a new spindle project:
Noel and I drove up to Boonville to go to a wool judging (very educational)
And apple show (disappointing):
We carefully read this informational poster:
And I bought three fleeces, all Cormos (Corriedale/Merino crosses of one sort of another):
Those are all off at Morro getting made into something usable. Two of them are coloured fleeces and should arrive before November.
We also bought some Navarro wine, because when you drive up to Boonville, you really must go to Navarro.
Then this weekend we drove up to Dixon to go to Lambtown, where I was signed up for a couple of spinning classes and wanted to see the dogs and shearing. Well, I didn't get much chance to see those, but in the market hall I came across this used Lendrum for sale, and it came home with me.
Now I'm going to finish fixing and sell the Clemes & Clemes wheel. At the same time, Noel suggested we should just get off our butts about fixing the wheel I got from his grandmother.
