Spinning and Cleaning

Today my Mom came to help me clean my basement. I can't stay down there very long because of my allergies. Not very fun. However, Mom and I got half of it arranged and cleaned up. It looks good on one half. The other half we just piled neatly as it's mostly Hubby's stuff. He needs to just sit down with it one day and go though it. We also worked on cleaning up my study up stairs. I made another big pile to take to the Good-Will at some point this week while I'm off. I'm so glad that she came to help me. We have a lot to do and I sometimes get overwhelmed by the amount of things to do. It's nice to have my mom come and help me when I get really in over my head. ^_^

Yesterday at the guild meeting I learned to ply. Here is my first skein from a wheel! I'm pretty proud of it.

I was really excited about plying and I got to use a ball winder and a niddy noddy. I was trying to explain to my husband what a niddy noddy is and why I need one. "So it's a glorified skein winder?" was more or less the way he understood it. Then I showed him a picture of a nice wooden one on the Internet. "I bet we could make one out of PCV pipe." He says. So low and behold, there are directions to make one out of PVC pipe. Here is my lovely niddy noddy that my hubby made me! I love it! ^_^Then at the meeting, I tried 90% wool and 10% silk roving. I was scared of it at first because it has silk and I was told that was hard to use. HA! I bought a little bit to try and then after that I bought a whole pound of it! Here's the pound and what it looks like spun.

And finally, I bought a pound of this beautiful lavender wool that smells like lavender!