Warning: Visual Wonkiness because I tried to prettify the blog after I wrote the post, since I was all jealous of Turtlegirl’s pretty, pretty blog. Yeah, she generally does get m up off my shebs to get to work…

You know you must be a fiber geek when this is what you use to weight a drying skein:  For the less geeky, that’s the controller for the Nintendo Wii, lending a bit of weight to my first skein spun by spindle.

Here’s a closer look:

I obviously still need work, but I’m not unhappy with my first attempt. I think learning the basics on the wheel helped a lot - I didn’t have so many new concepts to worry about. And speaking of spinning wheels, I have these products from my last two nights of class. First, some much better looking singles than before:

Grainy, poorly color-corrected closeup:

And from tonight, my first plied yarn! Bit of a mix of everything, honestly. Wool of different kinds and colors, and some bamboo (which tastes funny, at least to me).  Kali (otherwise known as Jabba) had to help out with the photos. I guess she knows that cat pictures are fairly obligatory for knitting blogs.

I’ll actually show some knitting soon. At the moment spinning in the “Ohh, shiny!” craft. And not just shiny, but Shiny! Hey, you all saw the Jayne hat. You know I’m a Browncoat!