ack. pathetic.

So I have all of this pretty handpainted fiber sitting around.  Alpaca.  BFL.  Silk blends.  Merino.  It’s all so pretty and soft and I just want to sit around all day petting it.  But I though, hey, I can spin it, right?  I can make it into yarn, and get rid of the middle production person.  Hell, the next step is to buy the sheep or alpaca, shear it, card the fiber, dye it, spin it, knit it, gift it.  One more step towards that end goal.

So I was gifted with a spinning wheel, as you’ll recall.  I have no idea how to operate it. I bought a bottom whorl drop spindle to try my hand at spinning, to ease myself into it.  I bought a book to show me how to do it.  I watched a video on how to spin.  I sat down last night and tried my hand at it with some cheap merino just to practice.

Ack.  Pathetic.  I am pathetic at this.  I really need help.  And I really need to find somebody to help me learn to use that spinning wheel. 

My first pathetic attempt.  It’s slubby.  It’s overtwisted.  It’s undertwisted.  It’s coiled.  It’s fuzzy.  It’s thick and thin.  It’s unusable.  Ack.  Pathetic.