"I may be ugly, but I'm here..." from "The Color Purple"
Here is the result of my Intermediate Spinning class. This skein contains a little bit of everything: wool, silk, cotton, flax, ingeo, silk noil, etc. The other students wanted to spin everything fine and smooth and perfect for knitting shawls. Shawls...? Not that I don't appreciate them, but that kind of spinning and knitting is a snooze fest for me. The teacher kept pushing me to spin smooth, fine thread and was somewhat surprised that I can do that now, but I much prefer my chunky junky stuff. Actually, when we were practicing with cotton, he said, "cotton just wants to be fine" as he spun a thread as fine as any a spider would produce. Me, on the other hand, I grabbed a wad and started making cotton balls on string! You can see them in the finished product -- they are the light brown wads. That might be the world's first art yarn spun from cotton -- I agree, it didn't come naturally to the cotton.
I'm getting ready to do a lot of spinning so more yarn porn to come on the blog.
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