Minzy's on Fire this Weekend

There's Minzy, all dolled up in tough as nails black paint and ready to rock and roll this weekend. I worked up the purple roving that my knitting friend gave me for Christmas this past year and started spinning it between Friday and today. It was a lot of roving that I didn't think I'd be able to get through for weeks if I did it by drop spindle but Minzy just tore through that roving like a beast, a smooth, well oiled beast. I'm now a 2/3rds through the roving but that 2/3rds is also been spun out in singles, plied, set in a warm and sudsy bath, and set out ready to dry for tomorrow so I got a lot of productivity out of this Ashford Kiwi for my first serious round of spinning.

I have to say this, spinning on a wheel, particularly with this Ashford Kiwi is like a dream. It was a slow start initially with my practice white roving but I got the hang of it enough that I wanted to put some time into my pretty purple stash and see what I could make with it. I'm really pleased with the yarn and it came out pretty even. A few lumpy bits in my singles in the picture below but I'm pretty satisfied and for now I'm not concerned with being absolutely perfect. For now just enjoying the smooth ride with this Kiwi.

I'm really happy with how Minzy turned out from her paint job. There are a few areas where the paint may have dripped or I realized too late that the paint had an uneven surface from the spray primer to stick to and adding layers of paint wasn't going to fix any of that BUT, that glossy black just looks gorgeous on her. I painted both her, the lazy kate, and all my bobbins up in black. I didn't do the niddy noddy in black paint although I may decide to remedy that down the road. I'm heavily debating now that I've worked on this bad boy and my tendencies to want to spin more singles that maaaaybe down the road I'll want a jumbo flyer. Maybe, I dunno. It seems tempting but is darn pricey and maybe I can cut corners by just....controlling my desire to filling my entire bobbin with too much wool.

In either case, after 2/3rds were in singles, I double plied them all up and dunked them in their sudsy bath and stuck them out to hang dry for the evening hoping maybe tomorrow I can start knitting...who knows?? I know that I want to knit maybe like a cowl or a shawlette? I'll have to check on the wool again in the morning before I decide. The color of the wool looks actually darker than it did when it came out of the wash which I'm hoping is the color saturating itself deeper because the roving itself wasn't all uniformly purple. It was mostly purple dyed and then blended in with flecks of dark red and blue together for a heather look so perhaps the color deepened when the two interacted with each other in the bath for a richer, darker purple? The reds and blues didn't all go away because looking at the skeins hanging while wet that they still have some red and blue heather in it so that should make for an interesting contrast. Well, I'll know by morning anyway.

Well, below it my lovely attempt at spinning wool in its three steps. There is the third left in roving, the third left in singles, and the final third all plied up. :D