yarn... and making it
Saturday, AB and I went on our River Knits Yarn Shopping Extravaganza. :D It was wonderful! I got so much new stuff... Let's see. Yarn wise, I got two balls of Noro Silk Garden, one ball of Noro Kureyon, two balls of Berroco Pure Merino, two balls of Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk, and a skein of beeeeeautiful purple Malabrigo sock yarn. I also got a spindle (!!!) and some black roving for practice. Which leads me to....
My first foray into spinning! I declare it a rousing success. I took to it like a fish to water, some would say. XD I spun up all of my roving within two hours of getting home. I soaked it and set the twist last night, and skeined it up today. I'm so proud of it! I can't wait to get more roving to spin up. I can already tell this is the start of a lovely relationship -- there're just so many possibilities with it. I can't wait for it to get warmer outside so I can start dying my own roving to spin (I decided dying would best be done outdoors... it's pretty messy, lol)! Until then I'll occupy myself with experimenting with plying and textures and whatnot.
In other, less related news, my Etsy store is FINALLY open! I only have two purses posted as of right now, but tons of more things are in progress for it. I think I'll be adding some handspun yarn yarn to the mix sometime in the future. Maybe even spindle kits for spinning your own yarn! Aaaaahh, possibilities! Love!