First Yarn

It is beautiful! :)

Did you wind onto the rolls yourself, or you have a winder? What great idea.

That's so consistent, and beautiful!

Wow!

Wow! That looks amazing! What are your plans for it?

gosh it is beautiful and fine!!! Even too - well done I am impressed

Sorry about the multiple posts but it wouldn't let me return to a new line. Here is the rest of it: * I carefully spread the fiber out so that it looks like that Halloween cobweb decorations and I can see the direction that the fibers are flowing. This allows me to pick out the vegative matter and other debris from my fiber. * I spend a few hours picking through all of my fiber in this matter, carefully placing the "cleaned fibers" into a ziploc bag to keep it clean. This ends up layering my fiber like those biscuits that pull apart in flaky layers. * When I am ready to spin, I remove one layer of my fiber, which is about two palm sizes and pull the fibers into a pre-draft about the size of a twizzler stick. I am careful to follow the flow of the fibers if I can. * When spinning I set the spindle to a slow spin and manually add twist with my drafting hand (right hand pulls the fiber out of the left) as I pull out the fiber. The slow spin on the spindle allows the twist to not unwind behind my work and it doesn't snap the thread from being too wound. * As the thread length grows to about 5 or 6 inches I can add a faster spin and this give me more of a rhythm of draft and twist/pull, allow the built up twist to travel, draft and twist/pull, built up twist travel, ect. * Wrap thread once it reaches arm length and repeat.

Wow; you got it so thin! What's your secret?

I appreciate the compliment, this is a picture of my first try at spinning yarn :) That took about 3 days to spin after a 5 minute rushed 'lesson' from the woman I had bought the spindle and fiber from. The second spindle's worth of yarn is coming along at the same quality and I'll have pictures posted when I use up the rest of the fiber.

i can't believe how thin you're spinning and how consistent! look at that beautiful cop!! i'd say you're a pretty advanced spinner!!