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01/25/2006

tom and jane

This weekend I made it out to The Yarn Tree in Brooklyn. A woman there talked to me about my spindle, and showed me some possible fibers. I bought some fiber, as well as my second spindle, Jane:

It's a Schact 3" Hi-Lo Drop Spindle and way prettier than my first spindle, Tom. Here are both, side by side:




We weighed Tom in the store, since I know nothing about it, and found out it weights 1.5 oz. Jane is 2.2...That's all well and good for being able to spin bulkier yarn but since my main concern was making longer skeins. Oh well. I couldn't wait to try out the new spindle, so I dyed the rest of Corriedale with lots of blues and greens, and a little orange. The weight difference while spinning is way more noticeable than I expected - it really takes more effort to get Jane going! But when I was done spinning the first half of the roving, I still only had 56 yards.



The colors are still not as deep as they could be, but I'm still super excited to see how the two ply turns out!

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