I have been spinning like a fiend lately. It's all I seem to want to do. I haven't picked up the needles in weeks, it seems. When I go out, I've been taking my spindle and some silk with me, that's how much I've wanted to spin lately.

Here you see the last of a pound of lovely autumn-colored wool I got two OFFFs [1] ago, hanging up to dry. I spun it on my Babe Production Wheel [2] and chain-plied it into a 3-ply worsted weight. I only got four skeins out of it, and one of them is a thicker grist than the other three, to my consternation. That doesn't seem like much for a whole pound of roving!

The colors are a lot deeper than the color here suggests. Rust, orange, brown, even red and pink run through the yarn, it's just beautiful, and fairly soft, too.

I don't know what I'm going to do with it. I have a bunch of odd lots of browns and autumn tones. I'm thinking of a ripple afghan, because, really, isn't everyone?

On the wheel right now is some merino from Butternut Woolens [3] in a color called Salmonberry. It was part of a barter I did for web work something like five years ago. Every time I think I've used the last of those rovings up, I find another one! I'm spinning this sock weight, because eventually I will knit again. Just not right now.

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