Wonder wool Wales was WONDERFUL!

Yay. I've been to Wonderwool Wales, and yes as the title says, it was wonderful!!

I was asked for a finished project in action shot so here are myself and Cassie wearing the jackets I made.

Cassie was such a good little princess, she only woke for a feed and went straight back off to sleep giving mummy plenty of wool stroking time, I took full advantage by meeting up with Gemma of Krafty Koala, and Nic of Nics knots.

I picked up Hannahs wool, bought some lovely 'country' for the store, Picked up some untreated merino and bfl fibre - for later ;) and some rainbow dyed merino.

I also bought a range of dyes.

I went to meet the talented Natural dye studio people.

I have been saving for absolutely ages for a spinning wheel, but never taken the plunge and bought one, Hubby persuaded me today :) We bought this lovely lady today, she was calling to us from across the auditorium, :)

She's a reconditoned wheel, the seller didn't know what type she was - if anyone has any ideas please let me know.

As you can imagine I couldn't wait to get her home, as we travelled the 2 hour journey home, we passed field upon field of shep, both commenting on how this one would make a nice fleece or that one didn't look like she'd have a soft fleece :)

I sat straight down and got on with loading her up. I did all that I have been reading I should do (reading for months- nigh on years!), yet time and time again I couldn't do it!!!

I thought I was doing everything correctly, but no, I just could not get the fleece twisting thereby turning into wool HOW FRUSTRATING!!!!

I you tubed spinning to see if the videos would show me where I was going wrong.

Whilst I was watching them, I am aware that hubby is messing with the wheel. Grrrr! It's my precious!! LOL!!

It looks like I'm doing everything correctly, so I go back to the wheel. I go as slowly as possible, step by step and OOOOO WOOO HOOO I am spinning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yee Ha Cowboy!!!!

After a while, this is what I produced, my back is kiling me and calf is pumped lol!

I'm looking forward to my new hobby!!!