Shortly after I published yesterday’s post, I hit the sweet spot (again) and was spinning! Yes… my yarn was uneven, but I was spinning.

The added wool roving was ‘grabbing’ and actually being spun into yarn. Hooray! Today? Heh… regardless of what I did, my wool roving was being overspun before it entered the orifice. I fiddled around with the tension. Nope, nada, zero, zilch… I’m still getting coily corkscrews before the wool is wound around my bobbin. I’m making yarn, but corkscrew, coily yarn that refuses to be fed in the orifice properly. I attempted (off and on) for about an hour to correct the issue, but afterwards, I decided to take a break, revisit a few of my purchased online spinning wheel video classes and tackle it tomorrow.

Until that time, I’m consoling myself with the yarn from yesterday. It’s far from perfect, lots of lumps initially, but when I figured it out, you can see the evidence on the right side, I was spinning yarn! Tomorrow is another day. I’ll pick myself up and… try again! ☺️

Good news! This past Friday, my spinning wheel arrived. I chose the Kromski Sonata (it’s portable) in walnut. The first day, I really didn’t spin a lot. I focused on treadling exercises that I learned from my Craftsy class and just getting comfortable with the spinning wheel. It was my first time spinning.

I love the way this newly spun yarn looks. It reminds me of my dreadlocks! 😍

Yesterday I spun what you see above. It was frustrating (but fun) and my tension was all over the place, but I didn’t care. I was spinning! Woohoo!!!

I stayed away from the wheel most of today. Why? I’m attempting to suppress a sore throat… which meant a lot of rest throughout the day. I disliked that! I’m an active person. Also, I hung out with my daughter. I chatted with the BF on the phone. There was no way we were seeing each other today since I wasn’t feeling the greatest. He DID want to do see me today. We haven’t seen each other since last Sunday and it’s Valentines Day, but he understood that I needed to get better. Because of all that, I only started spinning about two hours ago. Today, I spun some of the natural wool roving that arrived in the mail on Saturday. My tension and uniform appearance of my yarn leaves a lot to be desired. 😝😱😂 However, that will improve… in time!

Tomorrow is President’s Day, and… they are calling for snow. My daughter is out of school. I plan to hang out with her and of course practice spinning and hopefully I’ll get a chance to post and write about my Woolee Winder! It replaces the ‘standard’ spinning wheel flyer. I’m in love. It was well worth the $225 that I paid.

I’ve been wanting to spin for several years. I came real close to purchasing a wheel when I learned weaving in 2013; however, I held off since I thought that was too many crafts to learn at once. I first became fascinated with spinning, when I heard the story Rumplestiltskin. I was four or five years old. Spinning flax into gold?  My young mind thought that was AMAZING, but I knew it was impossible.

I chose the Kromski Sonata.  I selected this spinning wheel because it’s portable. Which means it can travel with me. Kromski also makes some amazing products. One of my looms is made by the same company. It’s functional and beautiful… just like this spinning wheel.

My spinning wheel won’t turn flax into gold, but in time I’ll be able to create some lovely homespun yarn. I’m looking forward to the adventure.