My adventure in spinning pure silk fiber

Having never spun silk by itself, I wanted to give it a try. So when I had a little extra money left over after paying my business bills and mailing off packages to some customers. I was able to purchase this Silk fiber on May 16th, 2010 and it arrived 2 days later. I purchased this fiber from Wildharefibers on Etsy. This silk was called Mulberry Silk top (colorway is River). However, I didn't get around to spinning it until June 6th.

Since I had never spun silk before by itself I just left the roving the way it was and spun it as a single ply yarn. This is what the yarn looked like after I washed it.

This next picture is a closer look at my skein of Single plied Mulberry Silk *River* Top. Spinning this Silk fiber was a pleasure. I definitely want to spin more silk in the future.

This fiber spun up into a 381 yard and 42 gram skein. Then I decided to knit this yarn into this Scarf.

I still had plenty of yarn left over after making this scarf to make another one, just like it.

The only deference from the 2 scarves is that the second one if more varriegated then the first scarf. Both scarves are very soft and silky weight approximately 1 oz each.

I can't wait for my next adventure in spinning silk!