Romney Sheep and Hand spindling

A while back I went off to the spinning group toting only my hand spindles. My friend Terry whom I think of as the guru of spinning, had shown me how to get started on the hand spindle. I wanted to show her that I'm nothing if not persistent, and perhaps a wee bit obsessed, when I want to learn something new. She was dutifully impressed with my efforts. It also got some of the other ladies interested in learning this ancient skill. I said to my friend Terry, I have read the Alden Amos big book of spinning. His foot notes are hilarious and he is extremely opinionated. That is just my personal opinion of course. I said, the thing that stuck with me was he said to order a bag of Romney fiber and just start to spin. Well I have been in several fiber source's and never seen Romney for sale. Terry says "I have a big bag of Romney at home. I will bring some round". (I'm thinking Crikey she giving her valuable fiber away to the likes of me).

Any way around she comes a few days later with this bag of of really lovely brown wool. We had tea and a short visit. And I immediately started to spin it up . For any fiber enthusiast you just don't know what your missing. Its gorgeous stuff , easy to spin really soft, and lovely to knit.

Terry and I will eventually get together again and drool over the Romney.

I looked up Romney sheep on the net. And they started life in England. We english people are so smart to produce a sheep like that. We do get some things right. Not like the politican who spent the tax payers money on getting his moat cleaned out. But I digress here.

Changing the subject my double weave is off the loom. I have woven in some of the skips in the bottom layer. When I say some, I thought I had all of them however when I took it into my laundry room I noticed a tiny one. So I will go over it again before wet finishing the piece. I will next ask Kiera if she would like me to make it up into a bag that reverses. She might need a new bag for her ballet slippers.