Summer Spinning, having a blast
So in my first post, I wrote about how I am working on successfully transforming a gorgeous Romeldale fleece into a sweater. The early parts of the Tour de Fleece went really well. I had had hand carded over 150 rolags in preparation for the Tour, and I was really good about carding up more to make sure that I wouldn't run out. This is after spinning about 75 of the 100 rolags I hadn't even thought of what I would do if I ran out of bobbins. After all, I could use my trusty ball winder- a decade old Knitpicks one- to just wind my singles into cakes. Unfortunately, that ball winder died a tragic death midway through caking a full sized skein (560 yards) of Miss Babs Yowza. Now, the Yowza tale is for another post (a future review of The Throwback sweater and Miss Babs yarn), but the ball winder breaking put a serious cramp in my Tour De Fleece. So, I bought a new ball winder off of Amazon. BIG mistake. I thought it would be great because it is wooden and it looked so n...