One day the spinning group, Warped, Twisted & Plyed, of Grants Pass, Oregon came up with a great idea - "Let's see how many yards we spin this year - can we spin enough to get to the moon?" Well no, we probably won't spin enough to make it all the way to the moon but why not reach for the stars (moon)! This will be our ongoing journal of how many yards we spin - fiber content will also be included since that may be of interest to others. Follow us and see how far we get!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

This s 380 yards of Virginia's romney

Friday, May 4, 2012

Shirley spun up 3610 yards of this hand-dyed blue face leicester which she plyed with a commercially spun red yarn - yes, that's 3610 yards!

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Kathy B spun 954 yards of romney wool

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Cindie finished spinning up this 2 pounds of Ashland Bay Merino/Tussah in the DelMar colorway - 968 yards.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

 Verna spun the nice gray shetland - 547 yards - it's from a fleece from fellow spinner Ferne's flock
 Verna also spun this merino tencel - 549 yards - look at that sheen!
Yolanda spun this 178 yards of cormo woo/kid mohair blend in the fall blend/southwest 2 from  Spinning Stripes by Diane Cutler. Great colors!

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Linda spun 392 yards of this fiber.....it's a surprise though because she lost the tag!

Monday, March 12, 2012

 Kathy B spun up these two yarns. The top one is 876 yards of romney. The bottom is a cormo/angora/mohair blend from Dyelots - 434 yards
Cindie spun this 1070 yards of a merino/shetland blend from SporFarms. There is a slight difference in color in each ply, just enough to give it some depth.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

 Verna had these to show at spinning yesterday. Above is 331 yards of alpaca, the roving was from Alpacas at Lone Ranch. Below is 486 yards of merino/alpaca.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

This is Linda's latest handspun on her blocking wheel - doesn't it look great as decor! Although I'm sure it won't be long before she weaves or knits with it. It's 50% Merino/50% Tencel in the Harvest A colorway - 580 yards.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

 Yolanda spun up 886 yards of a blue face leicester/tussah silk blend from eweniquely ewe.
 This is 375 yards Pat spun up of merino from Fiberworks
Pat also spun up this beautiful colorway of blue face leicester from Dicentra Designs - 372 yards

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

893 yards of Targhee from Sweet Grass Wool was spun by Kathy B....maybe a shawl for an Ireland trip over St. Patrick's Day

Monday, January 9, 2012

First spinning to post of the year, Cindie's hand-dyed merino/bamboo in the Baltic Sea colorway, 653 yards of it, fastest spinning ever with the aid of the Hansen e-spinner.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Kathy B's merino from eweniquely ewe is a whopping 1208 yards

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Linda spun up these 3 skeins all from SporFarms roving. On the left is the cranberry colorway in merino/shetland - 275 yards, middle is raspberry merino/shetland and 294 yards, and shetland/tencel on the right - 318 yards
 One of the bears at Taprock is holding Kathy  B's handspun - it's 433 yards of Ashland Bay's Merino/Tussah Silk in the Jamaica colorway
 This Shetland is from Ferne's own flock - 1500 yards in all
Virginia spun up this merino/shetland mix from Sporfarms - 116 yards

Monday, December 12, 2011

These pictures are being modeled by decor where we meet our first spinning get together of the month. The bear and fish are always a part of the lodge decor but the nutcracker is only out for the holidays.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Linda finished up spinning 1,550 yards of a beautiful Shetland/Merino blend from Spor Farms in the Seamist colorway....she's thinking on what it will be knit or woven in to.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Kathy spun up this mystery fiber she bought at the NWRSA conference this year, it's full of all kinds of fiber and glitz - 370 yards.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Cindie spun 1150 yards of her hand-dyed Panda roving (eweniquely ewe) which is 60% superwash merino/30% bamboo/10% nylon.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

This is Shirley's handspun silk that was spun from silk hankies and then plyed with 60/2 silk thread. There's 424 yards of it.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Pat spun this 650 yards of Falkland in the Burning Hot colorway from eweniquely ewe. Unfortunately the picture doesn't show the copper angelina she added to it while spinning
Virginia spun 320 yards in this black & white mystery wool combo

Thursday, September 8, 2011

 Here's some llama fiber Pat spun up - 416 yards in a beautiful shade of light brown
I don't have yardage on this, I think it's leftover from another of Jennifer's projects but I wanted to post it. This scarf hasn't been blocked yet but it's already beautiful, can't wait to see it after blocking. Jennifer spun this from eweniquely ewe's fiber in the Harvest colorway.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Above is Cindie's hand-dyed handspun Polwarth with some hand-dyed firestar added in during the spinning process - 574 yards
Below is Kathy B's 496 yards of Colonial Superwash hand-dyed by Great Balls of Fiber

Friday, August 12, 2011

This is Shirley's handspun - 1148 yards of River Mist Ranch alpaca plied with silk

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Kathy spun 1007 yards of Ashland Bay Merino/Tussah Silk in the Seamist colorway. Unfortunately pictures don't do this yarn justice as it's loaded with tiny sequins that she added while plying.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Yolanda spun 468 yards of Ashland Bay Merino in the Light Brown Natural color
Another of Yolanda's from CrossPatch Creations - 198 yards of a blend of wool/tussah silk/vicose/bombyx silk/silk noil
 From Sporfarm Yolanda spun 144 yards of this merino/shetland blend
 Yolanda also spun this 186 yards of white wool top and Wedberg Blue Tops farm romney
This is Ferne's handspun - 720 yards of shetland

Friday, June 24, 2011

Kathy is a speed demon on that Hansen electric spinner - here's 1,283 yards of natural medium brown merino from Ashland Bay - this is slated for a sheep sweater.
Verna brought some of her latest handspun to our spinning get together on Tuesday. Above is 316 yards of wool
 Verna spun this alpaca, 406 yards, from fiber from Alpacas at Lone Ranch in Eagle Point, OR
And here's another 385 yards of wool from Verna

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Quite a bit of new handspun showed up at spinning yesterday which increased our yardage spun for the year - we've spun over 15 miles so far since January.
Kathy B spun up some Dicentra Designs roving, 822 yards of 75% Blueface Leicester/25% Tussah Silk
Kathy B also spun 703 yards of superwash merino in the Snow Cone colorway hand-dyed by eweniquelyewe
Also from Kathy B is 499 yards of Superwash Colonial, roving purchased from Great Balls of Fiber
This beautiful handspun also from Kathy B; 689 yards from Abstract Fiber roving in the Bonfire colorway, it's 75% Merino/25% Tussah Silk. Kathy added red angelina to it as she was spinning - unfortunately it doesn't really show in the photo, believe me it's beautiful. Yes, all of the above are from one person - she's the one with the Hansen Electric Spinner!
This Superwash Merino was spun by Linda, 916 yards in all, it was spun from Dyelots roving. Linda deserves an award for this one - her bobbins came out exactly equal when she plyed - exactly, not an inch off but perfectly equal!
This is some of Darcy's handspun, 109 yards of Wensleydale from Ewe to Ewe hand-dyed roving.
Some more Wensleydale from Darcy, 93 yards, also a roving from Ewe to Ewe.
And anotehr 14 yards of Wensleydale from Darcy, another Ewe to Ewe roving.