I love my bunnies!

I spent some quality time with the buns last night. They each had a good brushing and then hung out with me on the couch for a while. They are actually starting to show some personality! I gave them each a couple of grapes and a baby carrot for tolerating the abuse of being groomed. They are just so sweet and loveable. Everyone should have an angora bunny ;)

I finished plying my sample skein of the undyed fiber for Mom’s shawl. I think this may be my best skein to date. It weights approx. 48 grams, is approx. 153 yds and is 26 WPI. It is also probably the most even skein I have spun yet. Of course, there isn’t a lot of room for variation in something that small to begin with . . . but over all I’m very pleased with the results.

I also noticed while I was reskeining the roving last night, that somehow I missed a skein when I was preparing to dye. I actually only dyed 30 oz rather than the whole 2lbs. Oh well, it should be enough for 1 shawl anyway. I’ll just spin the undyed ball to match the sample skein and use the whole thing for a scarf.

I can’t wait to show my mother how her roving came out, I just know that she is going to love it! I can’t wait to start spinning it up! I do seem to be having a little trouble spinning on the high whorl on my wheel these days, I’m not sure but there might be something wrong with my drive band either that or I just need to be in a different chair or something . . . If it still doesn’t seem right tonight I may have to hold off on using it until I can have it looked at . . . doesn’t that figure!

I’m starting to think it is time to obtain a second wheel, one with a bit more “horse power” for the amount and type of spinning I’m looking at doing. I don’t think it will happen in time to do the yarn for this shawl, but perhaps by the end of the year . . .