I'm Spinning

The girls and I took a trip to visit Nanny and the cinemas in Adelaide. The boys stayed home with dad. Pete and I find it easier to take half the family each when we go on outings to places like the cinemas. That way Michael who couldn't sit through a movie can stay home, it's also easier to keep your eye on 3 children rather than 6, especially in busy shopping centers.

The girls had a great time being spoiled by nanny and they loved the movie Ice Age 3.

I finally made a visit to the Walking Wheel Studio. An amazing shop and studio which specialises in spinning and weaving supplies. Bella spent a long time explaining to me the basics of spinning. I bought a secondhand spinning wheel, an Ashford Traditional. Bella is really lovely and it was really nice to have her help. I drooled over the weaving looms and the handspun yarns but resisted. I did buy a niddy noddy, spindle and the Ashford Book of Spinning.

I couldn't wait to get Michael into bed last night. I can't spin when he's around he likes to try and catch the wheel. Armed with the Ashford book, the new wheel and beautiful tops from Suzannes House of Wool. I got spinning last night.

It's not the neatest yarn. It has lots of thin parts and lots of thick parts, it's overspun in spots and underspun in others. I half filled two spools and then plyed them together. Then did it again for a total of two skeins of completed yarn. My first novelty yarn.

Now I need to decide what to make with my yarn.


A hat or a scarf