I learned to spin!

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Well, I learned 3 weeks ago from a nice lady at a local alpaca farm for my senior project at school, and I do think I am getting good!
Here they are in order, from 1-7...


4 ounces each of brown and white 100% Alpaca


I made this intentionally to be thick and thin, with parts being larger than my thumb and then super-thin parts, almost laceweight! Again 4 ounces of the fat, and about 2 ounces of the thin part 100% alpaca


This one, I used up the rest of the thin white I used to ply the previous one, on another bag of brown roving, again, 4 ounces brown, the other 2 ounces of the thin white 100% alpaca.


By this time I was getting tired of just brown and white, so I decided to try something new, to save a litte roving. 4 oz. of Alpaca plyed with cotton thread, to make it bubbly.

And because I asked my mentor about places near to me that sold roving, I went and acquired some loverly teal and yellow! It was only 2 ounces of each though, and it was Ashford Silver wool, a drastic change of what I learned on O_O from learning on alpaca, and using it for a lot of yarn, I am cursed to only want the really high quality fibers ;-; oh curses!


The yellow, plyed with a nice teal thread my friend gave me out of a treasure box (for me, at least) of old old sweing things x3 I had tried to get it even, as my boyfriend picked it out, wanting me to knit a hat with it, but I found it rather hard to draft it out like I do the alpaca... shouldn't it be ther other way around, that alpaca should be harder to spin?


And the teal and a BEAUTIFUL cranberry multicolor merino, still on the bobbins. I plyed the teal a little bit ago, and I had to hide the cranberry because he was over while I plyed the teal, as I spun it specifically to make something for my boyfriend, for our 2 year anniversary. He had wanted to get the cranberry during our first trip to the yarn shop, but he thought that $8 was silly (he doesn't know how much fiber is, silly boy :P).

...and that is all, hopefully more will come, as I am learning all sorts of fiber arts from my mentor... I did needle felting last week, but I forgot to take pictures :P

Oh, and I have a question for spinners/knitters: Would a full bobbin of yarn on a standard spinning wheel(unplyed) make a hat? Ideally the Cranberry will make a hat in my mind... but would it really?
oh, and another... I don't really want to ply it, so how exactly do I do a single (as right now the yarn twists onto itself), and would it get icky as he wears the hat?

x-posted to my journal, and spinningfiber