I got my roving, I made yarn, and it wasn't hard.

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So I ordered some Corriedale roving from Mielkesfarm.com. I sent in the order late friday night, got an email back Sunday night, which sprised me because they had a notice saying they were not going to be back until Monday. So I then paypal'd the money to them. (I do dislike not being able to just use a shopping cart!). I got the roving today, Saturday. Not bad at all. I had heard good things about them from the wool dread making girls over at fakehair, and they were right, they were very friendly, and fast.

So I made a ghetto drop spindle from civil's post in craftgrrl (I am too lazy to find it right now, please forgive me.) But it boiled down to using a couple of dead cd's and a cup hook at the top of a dowel.

So I started spinning from the little web videos at Joyofhandspinning.com and Icanspin.com. The first yard or so I spun was big and fat, but then I started to get the hang of how to feed the roving into the spinning bit. I was amazed that I got it going on such a ghetto spindle.

Here are three pics of what I have so far, and the ghetto spindle.



The cd spindle loaded with my yarn, I haven't gotten to thinking about plying it yet.


I don't know why the digital cam made this such a bright blue. It's actually really dark electric blue. Or it's just my monitor again. . .


Here's the whole darn thing.



My left arm is sore as hell, now. I have really weak shoulders, and upper arms from being injured nursing, so maybe this is a way to slowly (or not so as the case may be) rebuild some strength in that arm again. I hadn't expected that, but I didn't know what to expect I guess.

Does anyone know if I have to "set the twist" in the yarn some how?

Also how do I get cool things spun into it? Like slubs, and puffs and stuff. Do I just feed more roving into the spin as I go?

Can you tell I am excited as hell about this? I am ignoring my programming project for spinning today.

x-posted to craftgrrl and my journal