Spinning is cheaper than therapy, especially when it's from stash

Using stash instead of buying makes it free, right? The money is long gone!

This week began with being rushed to hospital with a suspected cardiac episode. Fortunately, all was well but I have been trying to take it easy since. I have been playing with fibre rather than sewing as it is less thinky and more meditative.

I have taken the opportunity to use up some of my fibre stash and spin it up. The coloured yarn here was spun from a braid of hand dyed Blue-Faced Leicester from The Shepherds Hut (Etsy) that was gifted to me about 3 years ago for Christmas. Despite the age of it, it drafted really well. It's probably one of the most even yarns I've ever made, I ended up with 2 skeins, one at about 80g and one about 20g. It's about DK weight but still thick and thin.

The white is just some blended tops (literally anything I could find that was wool and natural) that I've spun up to do some dye experiments with.

I have also spun from some astoundingly beautiful rolags that I received for Christmas a couple of years ago, they are full of silk, full of sparkles and all in the colours of pheasants. I think they were from Fellview Fibres on Etsy. I always put off spinning them because I was frightened that I wouldn't be able to do them justice. Honestly, the photo doesn't really capture them properly either.  Oh Em Gee I just love how these skeins turned out, they are SO soft and I find the colour variations really interesting.

This one I made from my own rolags that had a good amount of BFL, merino, rose and sparkly stuff in. The blue/grey side was a blended top from Spin Jones (also Etsy - I get all my fibre from there, it's great :D). This yarn came out thinner than I can normally manage easily so I am pleased about that but it is less consistent than usual... and it's never all that consistent. I wish I had a picture of the rolags because they were genuinely pretty.

My little handspun nook is looking quite healthy, I love the colours in there and how you really can't just buy commercial yarn that looks that way.