Incase you're wondering. I'm alive! I lived through the snow storm, though my knitting isn't doing to well from all of it - I've lost almost a week of knitting time to the storm. If you're wondering what in the world I'm talking about and thinking how should I expect YOU to know about some arbitrary snow-storm that put us without phones for 2 days, without power for 3 days and without water for 4 days (bytime the power came back the pipes were frozen), you can go check out my mom's blog for more information...

I'm afraid this will probably be the last post before Christmas... I've got an insane amount of wrapping and knitting to do on top of a party and the other usual festivities.

But onto the actual subject of this post - the handspun!

This pink romni wool was spun up within a few days of getting my wheel. I divided it into 3 parts and did one single a day an then plied the 3 the same day I finished the last single.

Here are all the singles sitting on the lazy-kate. This new lazy-kate is quite the luxury for me. Up until I got my wheel I'd been Navajo plying my single from a center pull ball I'd wound off the only bobbin...

After I plied it I set the twist at the same time I set the twist in all my other yarns I've spun & plied thus far... they were all mostly balanced so I didn't really need any weight on the skeins. This is all my plied yarns so far... (don't look to close at that front skein, it's my nightmarish first...)

Waiting on the swift to be balled...

It made quite the hefty ball!! It was about 7oz or so, the other ounce was made into a 2 ply, one single was a little shorter than the other two. I only had a couple yards of waste off the last bobbin!

I made real yarn! How cool is that?!

Hopefully I'll be able to post pictures of it knitted up soon...

I spun about half a bobbin of some nice Icelandic, but I was finding TONS of stuff in it that I was picking out... most of the junk I suspect is little flakes of sheepskin... pretty icky. It makes me think of when you comb a dog that's been over or under bathed... Is this normal for Icelandic?? Otherwise it's really lovely wool, a gorgeous silvery pepper gray and really soft. But I don't have any pictures of that like I thought I did...

What's on my bobbin right now is some purple wool... not really sure what kind of wool except that it's purple. lol. I've only spun a little more than what's already pictured, it's 3/4 of a bobbin now instead of 1/3... It's not as even as I'd like, it's soft with rather fine short hairs, very spongy and clingy stuff - which made it hard for a novice like me to control the draft.