an early Christmas

 I finally got all my yarn and fiber back from being processed! Just to remind everyone--this is the wool that came from Carter's brother Jason's 3 alpaca.(here is the post from when I got that in the mail) I sent it off this summer to get processed but the place was really backed up so I JUST now got it back in the mail. Here are some photos:

 

opening the box--I'm so excited!!!

Examining the goods. The hat I'm wearing is made with the first and only yarn I've ever spun myself!

Here is half of the booty--14 skeins of 200 yrds each (2.6 oz each), 1 larger skein of 285 yrds (3.7 oz). This is a combination of two animals (the cream colored one and the cream-and-brown colored one)

Here's a close-up. I LOVE the tweedy look! and it's soooo soft!

At first I wasn't sure I wanted to combine animals, but the guy from the processing place convinced me that it would look great (and it was a bit cheaper). I'm so glad I did, this is really beautiful yarn!

Yes, very soft. I am happy!

Emma loves it too 

:-)

The other half of the booty we didn't take pictures of because we were just so excited about the yarn! It includes two big bags of roving, or wool that has been cleaned, carded, and prepared for spinning. I have 24.1 oz of cream and 21.8 oz of black.

In total, that's 45.9 oz of roving, 40.1 oz of yarn, and just a little bit (maybe 2 oz?) of the brown/cream roving used to make the yarn (I think it was what was left over but not enough for a full skein?). That should give me 15 more skeins after I spin it, making the grand total of 30 skeins!!

I'm meeting the mom of a friend of mine this weekend to get a quick spinning lesson so I can get started on that part. Then I might have another lesson with my mentor from Handweavers Guild (Debby).