Spinning Tales

Last night I borrowed Aubrey's Xmas present -- an Ashford Kiwi. I cooked dinner for my friends and after dinner, Zona showed me how to operate the wheel. I had already experimented with a drop spindle, so I already knew the very basics of handling the roving and drafting the wool. (I don't like drop spindles because I find it annoying to have to keep spinning it manually.)

After Zona went home, I played with the wheel for about 3 hours. Look what I did!This is my first yarn. It's some blue-gray roving that I had purchased a long time ago to play with the drop spindle.

I took one of the arms of my homemade swift and used it as a niddy noddy. I'm not sure how many yards I have here. If I don't say so myself, I thik I did a pretty good job of keeping a realtively even yarn. The fuzz was unavoidable since the roving was old and a little beat up to begin with. After running out of this blue roving, I managed to find some more old roving from a felting experiement and embarked on another attempt:
Woohoo! I might just have to hold Aubrey's wheel hostage...