in the spin

lovin' that spin i'm in,
that old black magic called love...

i don't know if all this sneaking and spinning is getting me anywhere, but i am certainly getting a lot of practice in right now. i stash stalked some other spinners today and one had her progression listed - she had a metric panttonshitload of fiber, in the droppiest of names in some really sweet colors. i initially tuned out because a lot of the colorways that she'd spun up already, i wasn't as hot on - there are some awesome plums and browns and sour colors and greens in her stash but a lot of tans and blues spun up, and plied up for that matter.

and i found myself being dismissive, like, oh that one doesn't look all that great, and that one is kinda wonky, but i noticed that some of the skeins were just bang-on brilliant.
nailed it as the carpenter would say, just nailed it.

and so i looked and noticed that the skeins indicated this fiberworker's entree into spinning, i don't have a fraction of the fiber she's got, still working on my eye for color and her plies are SWEET. okay fine she's got a wheel and all but still. so i looked for the spun-up skein pictures, a relatively small fraction of easter eggs in this amazing field of names i recognize and some i don't and i start reading the details on the stash entries - amazing spinner has gone and listed most of them with dates or in a sequence. i recognized my very first efforts in hers, and heartened when i saw that the magic really started to happen around skein 7. most of her spinning is plied. i've successfully completed one project of singles spinning, then plying to produce quite possibly a useable skein of yarn, so i'm at this spinner's, say, 3 or 4. i'm getting there, then. just keep spinning.

which will be super-easy once my ombre tones of shetland come in. oh i am very excited about this and have plans of coffee, red wine, low lighting and all weekend in the sanctuary with this yarn. ha. well, best laid plans and all that, so i'll probably sneak off just as much as i can for shots and quickies instead. gonna have to leave the light on.

eta: also i want to do a survey/glossary of spindles. fat chance i'll ever get a chance to mess with all of them, but to have a page with all of the information in one place, and to develop my own learning, may as well. but i'll not start on that tonight.