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Spinning……..
One of my favorite activities!  I meet weekly with a group of spinners near my home, where we produce marvelous yarns, teach others to spin, and gab about fiber and life.   Contact our spinning group

Coming soon!  Just sent this assortment of fiber off to Pogo, at Friends Folly Farm, for blending.   There's enough here for a sweater for me, and I'm envisioning a tweedy sort of yarn, so asked for minimum color blending. 
Maroon wool has already had one pass through my hand carder (this was a mystery fleece, probably dorset or other meat breed), black shetland roving, romney fleece, dyed with Cushing gold, and some brown silky mohair roving.  Can't wait to see the results!  I plan to spin a 2 ply yarn for a cardigan.

Overdyeing

Results from a group dye day.  The painted green/blue is commercial 2 ply wool which I had previously dyed.
Decided to paint it to camouflage some areas where the dye had struck unevenly.  I plan to use it in a Fair Isle knitting project.  The jury is still out on this yarn.

The other is 2 ply commercial yarn which I had previously dyed a coral color.  Pretty yarn, but I realized I would never wear it, so into the pot it went.  This was a 2nd dyebath of Cushing's purple and gave me a nice light plum color.  Very happy about this one.