Handspuns

After seeing all the gorgeous fiber at Shepherd's Harvest, I just had to get spinning!

This alpaca two ply comes from these two different rovings plied together:

 Combined, they totaled 4-5/8 oz, and I got 177 yards of uber-soft, snuggly bulky 2-ply:

It's just awesomely soft! It really fluffed up, too. This will need to be a cowl, or something close to the face.

I also spun this roving from The Shepherd's Purse:

NOT IMPRESSED. The wool-mohair blend with glitz turned out to be several random colored strips of roving braided together, and some of it was so matted & felted that it was unspinnable. It also contained lots of VM. I'm glad I got it just for the sake of Project Spectrum: May (red), and feel that I made the most of it (118 yards of 2-ply) but it was definitely a drag to spin. Eh. Live and learn.

In knitting, I'm rocking out 14" of stockinette on size 3 needles, each round is 220 stitches. Yeah. Draw your own conclusions about my feelings on the matter.