Do you have enough Fleece or Roving?

Do you have enough Fleece or Roving?

Can you answer this question, or is it hard to admit, or are you aware of what you have in your spinning room?

How much is enough FLEECE or ROVING anyways?

I suppose that if you had 7 big tubs filled with carded batts from 1 Alpaca fleece, 2 small buckets of dyed carded alpaca locks, 2 small buckets of dyed carded mohair locks, 1 small bucket of natural silvery mohair locks, 1 small bucket of Wenslydale Teeswater locks, 8oz of Icelandic roving, 2 bags of border Leicester/Corriedale cross (each 2.5 oz)

Wouldn't this imply that you had enough?

Probably not if you spin daily.

But then.....when you see some new fleece or roving, that's been dyed by the owner of the sheep, goat, or alpaca and it really grabs your attention.

Then you've just got to buy it right?

Think about this for a moment -

Do you have room for more fleece or roving? Is it something that you will be spinning up right away, because you have a project in mind?

Sadly, we all have a tendency to buy things in the spur of the moment, often without thought of where we'll put it, when we'll get to spin it, etc.

So...

Always look in your spinning room first before you buy anymore fleece or roving.

(sigh)

Remember, you can always get more fleece once you find room or need it for a special project, you just don't need to over do it.

Beware fleece and roving is very addictive for spinners!

Happy Spinning

Virginia

aka Spinning Ginny

My Website – http://www.spinningginny.com

Spinning mood

And I'm still spinning away, just finished refilling the second bobbin of white alpaca.  I love this fleece, there's still 2 1/2 buckets of carded batts from Bellagio's fleece.  The first 2 bobbins are waiting patiently on my sewing box and the third bobbin is now on my spinning wheel.

 

Right now I just can't seem to get enough of spinning, so I am in the spinning mood,  so as soon as I fill up my bobbins, I start in plying up more 3 ply yarn.  Then as soon as a new skein of 3 ply yarn is spun up, washed and hung to dry, I'm back at the spinning wheel refilling my bobbins once again.

 



Working vigilantly to finish projects in order to start on new ones

Well, here I go the beginning of a new work week and a new year.  Time for me to really plow in and work vigilantly to finish knitting projects like the Handspun - Knitted - Maleficent - Mohair - Irish Lace - Cowl

Spin up some more White Alpaca Batts from Bellagio's Fleece into 3 ply skeins of yarn and then dye them

and finish knitting up socks for my mom and brother

so that I can start on new projects.



The day before Thanksgiving

The day before Thanksgiving, and up in the spinning room

the only noise heard, was the whirring of a spinning wheel.

Buckets of hand carded batts, laid very carefully,

with high hopes of being spun into yarn very soon.

An almost empty bobbin was placed on the spinning wheel,

and oil was put in all the right places.

I began prepping, and getting ready for

a fun time of spinning.

When after one batt was spun up, I reached for another

Slowly the bobbin began to fill. 

The morning turned to afternoon, I whistled and hummed

while I worked.  I continued to spin and soon it was time

to put everything aside.  A fairly good days worth of work

was done.

A half filled bobbin is what I had done!