They're Tapped!
...and the flow should start tomorrow morning too... nothing like collecting gallons of sap and boiling it down into glorious sweet syrup! Mine is a huge Silver Maple - we like the syrup even better than Sugar Maples. It's a long, tedious process - rather like this wound up being, but worth every moment...
A two-ply Manx Loughton I'd spun up in the past (in my icon actually) further plied with lace-weight pale honey silk and "forest fur" (mostly opossum).
Another closer pic and "Beauty and the Beast" who helped me are under
My little light Lady Barbara spindle and my MASSIVLY HEAVY old whatever spindle. This monster is what I actually learned to spin on when I was a little girl! (Thank you huaman for pointers on bottom draft spindles - made this vastly easier to handle and may now get a bit more use!)
A two-ply Manx Loughton I'd spun up in the past (in my icon actually) further plied with lace-weight pale honey silk and "forest fur" (mostly opossum).
Another closer pic and "Beauty and the Beast" who helped me are under
My little light Lady Barbara spindle and my MASSIVLY HEAVY old whatever spindle. This monster is what I actually learned to spin on when I was a little girl! (Thank you huaman for pointers on bottom draft spindles - made this vastly easier to handle and may now get a bit more use!)