A Work in Progress.

Finally! My first attempt at spinning! And here's the final result!



Now once you're done laughing, let's take a moment to discuss this. The woman who was teaching me, Bonnie, is very nice. Too old to talk on the phone with, but pleasant to speak to in person. And she has a huge bag of bad roving that she let's new people come in an learn on. So I am going to credit most of that mess to the bad roving. (Although we all know that no one's good on the first try.)

The biggest issue I seemed to have was that I kept forgetting to let the yarn spin onto to bobbin, so it would bunch up and create chaos. However, I think I understand it enough that soon I'll be able to overcome this.

Bonnie's store is a small building next to her home full of tons of yarn and other knit things. She has a couple of antique sock making machines that were used to make socks for soldiers during WWI, which I went gaga over. I'll post pictures of those another time.

The other ladies who were there were very nice and offered to give me rides to the weekly meetings, so hubby wouldn't have to sit through it. (Although, he had fun too, and I secretly think he wants to try it!) The are all planning a trip down to the Maryland whatever festival that kraftie was telling me about, and if it weren't for bad timing, I'd totally be there.

I'm totally going back next week.