Spinning and stash enhancemet

I am teaching myself to spin. I bought a second hand (third? fourth? who knows) Ashford Traditional a few months ago from a friend of a friend, and she is just beautiful. As I said in my intro post, I call her Alice.

For the first few weeks I was spinning fluff that came with it, but then I decided that I wanted something more colourful so I bought some lovely hand dyed fluff, stocked at my LYS but by Mill House Designs. It's 70s merino, not that I am very sure of what the first part of that means.

Still, it is fun to spin.

Because there were only about 35g I chain plied them. This also keeps the colour changes consistent.

And here are some singles that I am currently spinning, 100g of more 70s merino.

When this is done I'll also chain ply it.

I have some fibre on the way from easyknits that I am excited about.

In terms of stash enhancement, on the way to the BBQ yesterday we stopped for yarn. I was gifted (B is rather good to me sometimes) some sock yarn. It may be possible to see a little enlightened self interest in the gift, but I am not complaining.

It's called Teddy Cozy Toez and it's a 75/25 merino/nylon blend. I have no experience yet of this yarn, but it was very affordable. I got 200g of each in order to make very long socks for B, and the black I want to stripe with some easyknits sock club yarn that I have in my stash. The yardage isn't enough for a decent pair on it's own, but with the black it should look amazing.

At the BBQ last night there were probably the cutest cats I have seen in some time, so I took pictures.

I may be in negotiations with the letting agent about getting some cats of our own. Watch this space.