Building things and playing around

I had some fun yesterday building somethings and trying out some of my new toys.  I've been lusting after a lazy kate for spindles from the company that I hope to get my next spindle from and came across a very cool solution to not spending $150 dollars right now as a beginner.  (I do hope that sometime I will get the beautiful spindle lazy kate.)  I saw this design on a Ravelry thread and I'm excited to try it out.  For those of you who don't know what a lazy kate is, it's a device that holds your bobbins of spun single threads in one place to be neatly plied to form a finished yarn.  My lazy kate is made out of a shoe box and bamboo skewers.  I've already been using toilet paper rolls as bobbins so this worked out perfectly!  Now, I need to spin another spindle full of singles to ply with what I already have...

I also had some fun with my new hand carders, and since I promised, here's the first pic of what I've blended.  Just one batt so far, and actually it's blended far more than the picture shows because Laurie wanted the first batt to be as blended as possible.  So I gave her that batt and I'm planning on blending it to look like the picture here.

And last but not least, I could not resist showing of my newly spun single, it's still thick and thin but it's a lot more even and looks way better than what I first spun... With any luck, I'll be good at this soon.  Although I did notice that I spin better while listening to an audiobook or talking with someone and not when I'm solely concentrating on just spinning.  Relaxing makes me much more consistent. :)