Mom's works

    So today's instructions from RJ were to blog about my projects.  Well, I have been so busy getting ready for Friday that I haven't gotten alot done on my projects.  I did work on the Blanket and get it to the end of a row so that I could use it as one of my sample at the Fiber Circle.  Then I made a few swatches of wool and alpaca.  I have my knitting that I am thinking I might rip out and redo but right now that is on hold until after Friday so I have a knitting sample.  (See a pattern here?)  I also made up a small sample of knook.  I don't know if anyone even does knook but I wanted as many samples as I could get together.  Samples of the different stitches and samples of different yarns and samples of different fibers and samples of different end results.  

    I have done one thing that isn't for Friday ... Well, Kinda.... I guess most of my work has gone into carding up about 6oz of beautify chocolate Alpaca Fiber.  I only have hand carders so I have had to work on it all week just to get this far. And I still have about 1.5 oz to go.  I am not the best carder but I seem to be able to get the job done alright. 

It is fiber from the Walnut Creek Alpacas that RJ went and sheared this spring.  I love the color and it was so soft and fluffy before I even carded it that I thought about just spinning it right out of the bag.  Then I remembered that I have only spun up around 20oz of fiber in my whole life and I might not be that good at spinning it without carding and I didn't want to ruin the fleece so I carded almost all of it and I will finish  carding it before I spin it up.  I plan on spinning Friday at the Meet and Greet so we will see how it turns out.  I did start to spin a bit up just to see how it would look.  (And I don't want to in Friday with an empty bobbin.) I am not really that great at taking pictures of the fiber but here is an attempt at it.... So what do you think  ... Good spnning bad picture or bad spinning good picture???