I suppose I ought to apologize for leaving you for our Christmastide travels without posts.  Sorry about that.  But boy, is there good stuff piled around the cottage these days!

Behold, my first handspun, being handwoven! (Click to make it bigger – you know you want to.)

Wondrous and amazing, yes?  I got a drop spindle kit back in early November, and it came with this pinky purple mohair.  I knit (check out the gallery in the sidebar sometime soon when I get it updated) and had access to this loom when I was a kid, but had never turned fluff into yarn.

So here’s the yarn – it’s on the shuttle, there.  I used a bunch of embroidery floss for the warp threads, which worked really, really well during the weaving.  We’ll see how it likes being finished.

I don’t have a lot of the handspun weft yarn – I think the kit only came with 0.5 ounces – so this isn’t going to yield much more than a wallet of some sort, I think.  Or perhaps a needle case.  We shall see.