Spinning madness...

So since I decided to hold off on my spinning, I've been spinning like a mad woman. This weekend is a case in point. I completed 4 skeins of mystery colour fingerling 2 ply from Funky Carolina scrappies, 1 skein (small one) of funky Carolina silk/merino fingerling, the last 2 skeins of the navy/black worsted, sport weight. Oh yeah, must not forget the skein of Pigeon Roof Studio's Vanity Fair fingerling. All of it is washed and hanging to dry in the spare bedroom ensuite now.

I have already finished another skein of scrappies, and have one spun up as singles, and waiting to be plyed. I think I have enough scrappies for 3 more skeins, and enough silk/merino scrappies for another 3 small skeins of yarn.

I'm getting better at predrafting, and am finding the handdyed varigated stuff much more interesting to spin than the single colour stuff (read between the lines why it took me so long to finish those last 2 skeins of navy/black sport/worsted weight stuff).

I also went through my handspun stash and think the next batch of donations will include a lot of my earlier works. Stuff that I either don't like, or don't like the fiber, or just find ugly, and know I will never use. I know, handspun is precious, but I have so much now that I think I can part with the stuff I KNOW I will never use.

I think I will also donate a bunch of my early hand dyed rovings, corrX fiber that I got with my spinning wheel. Now that I've moved on to merino and silk, I just don't enjoy spinning the coarser fibers. I wonder if someday I will like them again. I don't even think I like BFL as much as merino, yes it is slightly easier to spin, but to my fingers it is nowhere near as soft!

So plan is, after I finish the 3 skeins of scrappies I have left, I'm going to start spinning up the 3 batts of Crown Mountain Fibers that I picked up at Madrona. I prepreped it last night (couldn't sleep), and it's soft and squishy. I'm still not sure I will like how the colours come out, but when I was at Madrona, their colours were kind of limited. But I do like the softness and the quantity that you can get of each colourway.

Once that is done, I may try the Chameleon Dyeworks optim fiber I have preprosed a couple of weeks ago and is sitting on my bedroom nightstand. It's gorgeous, but I'm a tad scared cause it feel a lot like silk in thinness and stickyness, and I'm not very good at spinning silk yet. Maybe I should do that ball of apricot handdyed silk that I picked up at Madrona before I try to tackle the optim. I would feel less bad if I screwed up the silk than the optim. The silk was an afterthought out of one of the seconds bins.