Spinning Up Something GOOD!

Hey friends. Sorry it's been a while since my last post. No one told me planning for a wedding would be time-consuming, serious work. I thought it was all daisies and dandilions. ; )

So, I'm spinning up some alpaca fleece for Julie from Wier World Llamas & Alpacas. This is my first chance to show what I've done so far! I'm excited to say that I'm getting closer and closer to these animals by working with their harvest. I've bought a set of Strauch Hand Carders on eBay and I've washed my new fleece. Now, it is slowly but surely being brushed and yanked and brushed again with my carders (I've got the blisters to prove it). As I turn each clump of soft fleece into silkworm-like fiber rolags, I get better and better at spinning what I've prepared. Here's a look at some of the yarn that has already been through the spinning process on my Ashford Traditional Spinning Wheel.