Busy busy, busy

I've been up to a little spinning. The chunky yarn is easy and pretty quick to spin up and ply 4 ounces. The sock weight is a little more time-consuming. It takes me almost a week just to get each ply individually spun. Granted, my paying job seriously cuts down on my spinning time. And then I have to stop and sleep sometimes too-although I think I could probably spin in my sleep, but then I wouldn't be awake to enjoy it.

My new favorite wool for spinning is definitely the superwash merino I recently got from Amy over at Spunky Eclectic. Check out her shop from the sidebar link. I also tried some Corriedale to practice spinning thin yarns with-I loved it too!

This is the merino after I weight out two 2 ounce bundles and dyed each of them. Once spun up, the white bits that didn't take dye really tone down the brightness and the colors of the individual strands are very pretty. But when you ply them together, it's like magic happens and you make a totaly different color.

Ooh, pretty isn't it? Up next? Red , white, and blue! Actually, I'm hoping once it's spun and plied together, it will tone down like the other batch andd give my kind of a purple. We shall see.