Newspaper Yarn

I keep another drop spindle seperate to the spindle I use with tops so I can make art yarns with unusual materials such as newspaper. I made some newspaper yarn and plarn (plastic yarn) as part of the Bliss wedding gift, but since I love the look of yarn on a spindle so I thought I'd show these photos I took before I wound it onto the giant bobbin. I plan to make some other art yarns, perhaps experimenting with different paper stock and dying techniques.

Drop Spinning - spot the difference

As you can see in roughly two weeks (during which I've snatched the occasional 5 minutes for spinning) the amount of spinning has noticeably grown! ( well its a bit spot the difference but I think its got quite a bit more on there) i'm also getting the hang of spinning from "tufts" instead of preparing lengths to spin with - though only time will tell if I'm goot enough to do it straight from a carded fleece ( the wool tops I'm currently using is pretty damn easy to work with - that is when its not felting itself together at odd moments)

before

now

Drop Spinning

Started back up with my drop spinning today, its one of those processes I pick up and put down ( much like rag rugging) as the mood takes me.  Really its a long term project because I intend the finished spinning to be knitted into a hooded jumper for my friend and fellow artist Duncan, truthfully he's the one that got me started on spinning in the first place so I think its quite appropriate that my first big project using the process should go to him.

Anyways its a very long way off from being a jumper, here's how far I've got: