Dorothy Northcutt Gray - Fine Art

I spent an hour or so this morning fumbling with my new top-whorl drop spindle. The result is some lumpy but probably quite usable yarn. It looks like the two ounces of wool top (from Bluefaced Leicester sheep, and luxuriously soft) will go a fairly long way, even with the large amounts I am spinning. Even though my finished yarn will no doubt work, I am finding the process a lot more laborious than it appears on the instructional videos I have been watching - which is, of course, to be expected! All I know to do is keep re-watching the videos and practicing, until I run out of top. I've got some incredible alpaca/silk roving but I do not want to try to spin that until I have a better idea of what I am doing.

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