Oh I hate when that happens!

Not sure how I did it, but wow is there a lot left on bobbin #2!

Luckily I learned a nifty winding-on-the-hand-for-plying technique from Patsy Z., so I was able to ply the 'leftover' easily.  My spinning was a little less uneven than usual on this really nice undyed BFL roving.  I don't usually go for white but I really like the look of this yarn. :-)

This week I picked up a bit of baby alpaca as my other sister might be interested in learning to spin.  I played with a bit, spinning from from the fold which surprisingly made it 'hairy'. Wow is it soft!

I also picked up some carbonized bamboo, out of curiousity:

It feels 'squeaky', and should be an interesting spin.

Also, a couple of my spinning buddies gave me some fiber.  One gave me some hand-carded BL rolags to try on the great wheel.

 She does nice hand-carding!

And another gave me some lovely sproingy Jacob roving to play with.  I'm thinking of taking the Bulky Pinkie to work and spinning the Jacob there.  Isn't it purty?

I've spent most of my energy this weekend re-arranging the guest/fiber room to 'fit' the great wheel - yeah that's not working out so well.  I even moved the exercycle to the dining room (which necessitated moving a sewing machine cabinet into the living room and more shuffling around).  I managed to get 5 wheels (actually 6, counting the tiny Normandy wheel that is on its way to a new home) in there now, and I can still use the GW without moving things around.  Since the BPinkie is going to work (or my mom's - not sure yet) with me and I still sort of have room for the Reeves in the living room it kind of works, but wow is it still messy.

I need to do something about that shelving unit - it looks awful!  (It would help if I could stop buying Corgi Hill Farm fiber!)  Some of the stash on that shelf needs to go back downstairs to the basement stash.  And I need to get on the ball on spinning up some of this stuff.  I still have a ton of the red colonial to spin that I started years ago, plus several bobbins that need to be plyed.  Maybe while I'm recovering from moving all this heavy stuff I will design my electric plyer and get it built during the week.  Having that, as long as it works, should speed some things up a bit.

Speaking of CHF - next up on the Reeves is this lovely green multi camel/silk blend, called "Treebeard":

 It looks a lot lighter now that I've stripped some of it, but I haven't spun any yet.  I was going to do a bump of merino/silk in a celadon color, but this grabbed my eye first and there isn't as much as the celadon so I'll get it done sooner (she said hopefully). :-)