Today, I ordered a sign for the door of my craft room:
That was the theme of #teamwow’s challenge today – spin what makes you happy. So I continued with my big orange batt, spinning 3 sections:
And then, because it was appropriate, I broke open one of the Tubs of Joy from World of Wool. This one made me yell with delight when I saw it – it’s black, with some greenish-yellow shiny fibre (maybe silk?) through it. A bubbling witch’s cauldron of a blend. Amazeballs.
I put on a playlist of beginner’s spinning videos by Tiny Fibre Studio, and started spinning. For a change, I wasn’t fully focussed on the spinning because of the videos, and after reading some of the TdF posts on Facebook I was treadling barefoot. I’m not sure if either or both affected things, but I suddenly realised that I was treadling like the hammers of hell, and whipping out fibre from the draft. Suddenly, because I’d watched 2 or 3 vids by then, and there was no sign of any yarn on the bobbin.
Because it was so tiny and skinny that it couldn’t be seen from my viewpoint.
And it was the most sublime green:
It took AGES to fill it this far! There are short runs of barber-pole black and green, but isn’t it sublime? Like one of those poisonous Amazonian tree-frogs! So shiny!
Sadly, it must have been a discontinued colour, as there’s nothing like it on the website. Boo. Still, there’s 50g in a Tub of Joy… what could I make with that?
Allons-yeah!
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