Insomnia and Spinning

On July 11th I woke up around 3:34 am and couldn't get back to sleep. So I headed off to my spinning room to start spinning up some yarn.

I took this picture of the 7 batts of Springtime Medley that I had finished carding the day before. Then I put a half filled bobbin of Springtime Medley on my Spinning wheel and took that picture.....as you can see from the next picture, I forgot to put the drive band back on before taking the picture (half asleep). These 7 batts weight 6 1/2 oz before I spun them up.

This next picture shows the 8th batt laying on the floor ready for me to start spinning. After taking these first three pictures I started in spinning. I stopped spinning around 8:04 am to go and take a shower and get ready for a long day.

Then over the next few days I continued spinning off and on and finally on July 21st I finished plying up the last 2 skeins of Springtime Medley and then washed them and hung them to dry. Then when they were dry I listed them on my website http://www.spinningginny.com/ and on my etsy site at http://www.etsy.com/shop/Spinningginnys. I ended up with 910 yards of 2 ply lace weight yarn and 4 7/8 ounces or 138 grams. This was just from these batts and what was on my bobbin from a previous batch, that I had spun up a few months back.