Spinning.

It's been a spinny couple of weeks here at Wildewood and now that the wheel is working well, I've been having fun. I honestly can't remember the thought process behind buying this yarn, but it's spun up to be quite lovely.

It's a dark golden colour and although I didn't buy quite enough for a shawl, in the end it didn't matter!

When we moved, I put my lovely bobbins, half full of soft shetland wool somewhere safe! Well, that didn't work out as I could not find them anywhere and had to buy a couple more. Last week they appeared!

I plied them and wound them off onto the niddy noddy. Just about 80grams in total.

I mordanted with alum and popped them in a nettle dye pot. The colour was so disappointing that I threw in a handful of onion skins and went out for my French lesson.

When I got home, this was waiting for me in the pot. How luscious is that? Suddenly I now have enough wool to make the shawl if I mix this yarn with the other! I guess the universe was looking out for me after all :D