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I Did a New Thing! I Plied Yarn!

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Rebecca Lynn taught me how to ply yarn today! I also learned that I need to either spin finer yarn, OR halve my turtles, because holy gadzooks was it difficult to ply all that yarn! She also taught me how to ply yarn using the Andian plying method, which was at first pretty complicated but after I got the hang of it, it went pretty well! (Andian plying is only used for quite-small lengths of yarn.) Here's the result:
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A Gift!

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 My amazing friend Rebecca Lynn sent me this LOVELY wool in the mail.  It's so soft. The texture is quite different from the wool I'm currently working with. I can't wait to spin some of this up!  Look at this gorgeous  color!!!  Rebecca Lynn, THANK YOU, so much! You are the best!
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Pouring Feelings into the Wool as I Spin It into Yarn

This week has been a whole cluster filled with turmoil, up and down emotions, little patience, and a whole lot of things bugging me one right after the other. I came very close to having a full-blown meltdown this evening, when the pinnacle of annoyances of the week came: my computer was not working! Eventually I was able to fix it and get it going again. Right now, I'm on a video call with my good friend, Rebecca Lynn, the lovely Orpheotelest from the Starry Crown Tradition who introduced me to spinning -- and got me hooked! ^_^ She taught me today how to pour my feelings into the wool as I spin it into yarn. It goes like this: * Open my heart chakra and let all the feelings gather there. * Draft out wool and attach it to the leader on the spindle. * The wool is "sticky", which means it picks up strong feelings rather readily.  I let the wool pick up the feelings just like the leader picks up the drafted-out wool. * As the twist travels up the drafted yarn through the tw...
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I've Fallen in Love with Spinning

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          A couple weeks ago, at the suggestion of my friend Rebecca Lynn, I purchased a Turkish drop-spindle, and ordered 8 ounces of Romney roving wool. The Turkish drop-spindle arrived a week before the roving, so I had plenty of time to get used to it by fiddling with it, spinning it on my finger, and playing around with it. Then, the wool finally arrived too! Rebecca Lynn taught me last night (10/30) the basics of how to spin this wool into yarn, both by hand and with the drop-spindle, after I was finished with major preparations for this morning's Samhain Ritual of Mourning.           As soon as I opened the package of wool, I fell in love. My eyes were wide as saucers as I stared at the giant bundle that is bigger than my head. Then we started -- first, I had to divvy up the roving and put half of it into a plastic bag, before I broke off a piece of roving, and then pulled that apart gently. I learned how to make a...
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