Lately life hasn't allowed much time for my other fiber obsession - spinning.
Luckily Amy went ahead and wrote a brilliant book, and held a book launch party to celebrate.
Now, when there is a launch party for a brilliant spinning book, you can't very well not spin, can you?
Here's Amy with the coolest cake. (How did they do that??)
I snapped a shot of the now famous swatches and sample skeins that appear in the book.
In addition to the cake, Amy made delicious carrot cake cupcakes. (Think I can convert these to gluten free?)
My Ladybug accompanied me to the party. We worked on some Spunky Eclectic handpainted alpaca in the Seaglass colorway.
By Sunday evening it had turned into this lovely skein:
It still needs to be washed and blocked. In honor of Amy's book, I played around with some of the techniques she described. I worked on controlling the color, the thickness of the fiber, and my drawing technique.
As I played around, I tried to figure out which methods would work best to spin this:
That would be 2 braids of Panda - a wool/bamboo/nylon blend. I snagged it at the party (Amy was having a sale, how could I resist?). I think I want to make these into my first handspun socks. I'm thinking 3 ply, with longish color repeats. Or I may just sit and pet it. That would make me happy too.