Ice Cream: half spun

    Blended hand-carded roving of shetland wool from Stony Creek. Fourteen of these puffs make 7 oz.

    After a long day of work, I allowed myself to read the new HP and spin a little. So I would read a chapter and then spin one puff. This allows me to prolong the suspense of the story and to get a proper rest for my pinching fingers.

    I'm starting chapter 8 now...

    Comments and faves

    1. hilpalny (59 months ago | reply)

      read and spin at the same time??

    2. cauchy09 (59 months ago | reply)

      Hee hee, I wish! Nope, I don't think I can do that. I am considering working my way through the library's collection of books-on-tape, though.

    3. Blogless MJ (59 months ago | reply)

      Yummy!!! and no lactose!!!
      You are doing a great job, your spinning is wonderful!
      Can't wait to see it knit up!

      Good idea with the suspense of reading and spinning!
      Makes for an enjoyable day!

    4. loopykd (59 months ago | reply)

      Beautiful colors!

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      Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)

    5. schmidtly (59 months ago | reply)

      yum

    6. rainyday*knitter (59 months ago | reply)

      Wonderful colors! And your spinning is great.

    7. terrabellaspun (59 months ago | reply)

      Your spinning is great & your photos are wonderful- I love how you show the fiber along with the bobbin! It looks scrumptious :)

    8. knottynaomi (59 months ago | reply)

      yummy! beautiful spinning!

    9. cauchy09 (59 months ago | reply)

      Thanks, everyone! This shetland is a long wool and particularly easy to draft out thinly.

      And, terrabellaspun, I do the bobbin-on-fluff photos because I'm trying to learn how to guess how the wool might look spun up. Some of these have been surprising.

    10. yarnzombie (59 months ago | reply)

      Really nice! Love the colors and the photo.

    11. minemma (59 months ago | reply)

      Your new beautiful icecream yarn will be forever associated with HP - which not a bad thing at all. :)

    12. >WonderMike< (59 months ago | reply)

      I took a spinning class on Sunday (drop spindle) and one of the folks there was doing the HP on cd. I think are ~25 disks, which sounds crazy to me. But I purchased Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell on CD and it's about 30 disks. CRAZY, but nice to knit to.

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    14. ImagiKnit (59 months ago | reply)

      So delicious!

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    16. The Speckled Ram Fibers (52 months ago | reply)

      Lovely colours of fluff. Yum.

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