FO: Handspun - Memories

I'm always too excited to start spinning to take a picture of the fiber beforehand. I really should because it changes so much. Lucky for me, Becoming Art had a picture on their site (which it looks like they sold so it's not currently there anymore.

I got this fiber at Stitches West, either one or two years ago...It's 80% merino and 20% silk - sooo soft (it's possible I may say this about all the fiber I spin). 

Lovely night picture which does not do the fiber justice...

I loved spinning this up. The colors were gorgeous, the muted pinks and purples.

I divided the fiber in half and spun two singles.

Then I plied the two singles together.

The 3.5 oz of fiber gave me about 360 yards of a fingering weight yarn.

Now what to make with it?

Spinning!

Last year (almost exactly a year ago), I made one of the most expensive craft purchases in my crafting life. I bought a Schacht Ladybug spinning wheel.

After I first put it together, gotta love that yellow lighting...

Since then, I have been going crazy. A whole new world opened to me (read: I could buy so many more things) and I quickly bought as much roving as I could from Stitches West, VKL, and occasionally online.

The last thing I spun was a light fingering 3 ply yarn out of superwash Merino I bought at last year's Stitches West. It was so soft and squishy. I don't have a project for it in mind yet, but I'm always searching Ravelry.

8oz of Crown Mountain Farms superwash Merino from Purlescence Yarns bought Stitches West 2012.

The finished product

The leftovers spun into a 2-ply

I'll be posting some of the other things I've spun and the projects I make out of them (yay!).