Loading ...I spent almost the whole day today away from the farm, leaving Steve to take care of the chores and woodpile all by himself. It wasn’t a ‘jolly’ though, no, I was off to learn a new and practical skill!
Back in the summer our friend Cheryl mentioned to me that the Ottawa Valley Weavers and Spinners Guild do courses, that she was looking at a couple, and did I want to go along too? Well, I do have 17 bags of sheep wool upstairs so this seemed like a good idea!
On arrival we were given a booklet, a spindle and asked to choose a ball of white roving and a ball of coloured roving from a selection of colours. Cheryl’s was the green and mine the rather pretty purpley-blue.
This would probably be the time to tell you how we got from the lovely roving in the first picture to standing on chairs with newly plied yarn, but I am a little fuzzy on the details! There was drafting, twisting, winding, parking; there was also a certain amount of breaking, tangling, rescuing, confusion, frustration and reassurance!
It was a really enjoyable day, even with the difficulties of leaning a new skill. Our teacher was great, funny, very patient and understanding. She assured us that in no time it would stop seeming like a magic trick that required far more than two hands and that we should enjoy this skein of wool, as in the not too distant future we would be struggling to make such novelty wool.
As you can see I have plenty of roving left to keep practising on until the next course where we will be introduced to the wheel.
Yeah you made it well done can not wait for the spinning wheel then when we have wool we can get mum to make us jumpers, gloves, etc,
Hope you are both well
Speak soon
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (not sure how many kisses to send as need to make sure there is enough to go round.
Comment by Alison — November 15, 2009 @ 10:23 am