Wednesday, March 9, 2011

What I have been up to....

About a month ago I was able to watch a lady spin on a spinning wheel.  It was almost hypnotic watching, and seemed to be such a calming activity that I was really wanting to learn how to do it myself.  I was too shy to ask her if I could try.  I finally decided that I wanted to learn how but was not sure about driving over an hour each way to take lessons.  So I did what I always do....I jumped in with two feet and decided I would teach myself.  Ha!  Needless to say I think I might finally have figured it out.....sortof.  I will say that once I got beyond trying to figure out tension settings and found a rhythm, it was very relaxing and I was so thrilled with my first spin and ply that I cannot wait to try again!
Now for those of you who have mastered this...please don't laugh...lol :)  oh heck who cares...laugh, I'm so stinkin' excited with it no matter how fluffy and over spun/underspun it is! :)  I feel like a little kid who made a picture that they are so proud of!!!

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  1. Kelly--Your yarn is great!! You should feel very proud (and not the least bit self-conscious!!)
    I'm so impressed with your ability to jump right in as you do. Who knows what you'll get up to next?!?

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  2. Oh my goodness. I have been teaching myself to spin for ages and I can make something as nice as what you have. you should be really really proud. What are you going to make with it??

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  3. I still have the 1st skein I spun. It's pathetic...your's is just awesome for a first go!!

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  4. I love the colours and think its beautiful! I too was proud of my first ever real go. Its fun spinning and becomes addictive. I now like making art yarns and adding other fibres too.
    Nikki xxx

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  5. It's beautiful! There is a spinner inside each of us...don't feel self-conscious. Just feel the fiber and enjoy every draft and every treadle. Spinning has changed my life and it has opended the doors to a new respect for fiber arts and the fiber we use, in all fiber arts forms. What we treasure as a felter, we may not enjoy spinning. Why? That's why I'm the Wonder Why Gal...I ask those questions.

    Keep that yarn as a treasure. I still have my first skeins. They are beautiful and they teach me a lot about how truly beautiful even my un-trained hand made yarn.

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  6. Thank you so much for all of the encouragement ladies! I know it is because of this blog and all of your wonderful comments that I am able to jump in and try new things withour too much fear. My family has had a good chuckle of my first few skeins and so have I. I do know that each time I sit at the wheel, I learn something new about my fiber. :) Thanks again!

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  7. P.S. Did you get my e-mail, or did it go right to spam?

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  8. Absolutely impressive! One of the things I love about spinning is that once you "get" the basic technique there is so much to do with essentially no rules ;-)

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  9. Kelly that yarn is FANTASTIC! It looks like you`ve been doing it for ages its so good! xx

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  10. Kelly - it is lovely yarn. You did not need lessons! And how good it this - you saved yourself money and you saved the rest of us some carbon footprint!

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  11. I love spinning and had to opportunity to buy a spinning wheel at a great price and turned it down as I didn't have space for it. Now I do and I regret it sorely....great efforts, Kelly. I think better than what I would have done! Practice, pracice...you'll be obsessed!

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  12. this is fabulous, I have only spun on a drop spindle and would love to do some wheel spinning.
    thanks for sharing
    martine

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  13. I'm so impressed you taught yourself, it looks wonderful

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