August 17, 2009
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Here’s a pic of the first yarn I ever spun. I’m posting this again since I’ve been chatting about it with other fiber friends so they can see. The warm tones are wool that was dyed with kool-aid. The blue was a small batch of wool from a needle felting kit that I decided to spin up. Well, this yarn has an interesting story. Spun on my first wheel a Louet S15 that is my FAVORITE
wheel by the way. I got this wheel from a lady that had it for sale in our local paper and I drove way out (Next town over out in the BOONIES) to her place to see it. Well it came home with me with some of the wool she was selling too. At the time she was reducing her stash and wanted to get rid of some of it. Well I didn’t know any one else that spun so was free wheelin it and wasn’t doing very well and got discusted with it and tryed it a couple of times more and then just stuck the wheel with wool on the bobbin and all. It sat in there for about 2 years 
. So long that when I had this moth infestation in my apt (suspect that the buggers hitched a ride in on some baskets I bought from the pottery) that the moths worms attacked the wool on the bobbin unbeknownst to me, LOL. So as time passed and the moths lived out their life cycle, GEESH, I started taking sewing/pattern drafting classes up in Maryland and ran into some women that told me about the Maryland Sheep and Wool Fest. So since it was going on at that time and I was already up there I decided to check it out and met all kinds of fiber people, It was like WOW!!! There was a lady there that was so nice and she let me watch her as she spun and gave me all kinds of tips and pointers. So got some more wool and some needlefelting stuff to play with and put the peedle to the medal back home to dust off my wheel. Once the wheel was out and I dusted it off and being armed with a new attitude and knowledge I proceeded to niddy noddy the yarn off the bobbin and that was when I found out that it had been eaten thru in some places by those moth worms, ARGH!!! No problems I just tied it together in those places. I had read in a book and saw at the MSWF how people had dyed stuff with kool-aid so decided to try it out in my micro-wave and thus that is what produced the orangy red warm yarn 
. It wasn’t much yarn and being very limited in my knitting knowledge I wasn’t sure what to make with it. Then there was an issue of Spin-Off (Summer 2004 Issue) that had these knitted/felted bowls that were so cool looking so that’s what it became. It was neat to see how big and floppy it was when knit but then how it shrunk and firmed up when felted. Oh, there is also more info about knitting these bowls out of, UNSPUN FIBER , in the Summer 2003 issue of Spin-Off. Now that I’ve dug this out I’m getting the ithch to make some more 
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Hee hee! You’ve got me wanting to try my hand at the unspun stuff too! And the weird thing is I know exactly which Spin Off you are talking about and I know just where it is!
love those new colorful batts down there btw! Is it all going into one big thing you’re going to make or a bunch of different projects?
@spinner_mom - Ha, I’m getting ready to cast on for one of those bowls now with some of my handspun. Last time when I was at MSWF there was this husband and wife team that were selling silk (all things silk, cacoons, hankies, fiber and they had worms) they were showing how you could take a silk hankie (like a silk cacoon that has been stretched out and dryed on a square frame) by poking a hole in the middle and then just stretching it all out into this long freekin yarn like and then just knitting with it like that. Was pretty cool so want to try that some time too. Oh, congrats on the Kiddos all doing so well, woo hoo : ). I’m still getting the hang of how much wool is going to make how much yarn so not sure how much this whole lot will make. It will probably be several projects. It is the wool I got from Peace Fleece for the Chinny wool challenge. Ya take a pound of wool and see how much you can make with it. I had a good bit of the undyed protion of the Chinny wool and have blended some of it with the coloured but still had some left over. So I had this brilliant idea to take a crap load of these mushrooms that are sprouting up all around here and dye some of that with it. Stay tuned to check out the mess and results of that, LOL.