Spinning and spinning and spinning

I've spent a lot of time the last few weeks spinning, and my knitting is getting a bit neglected, so I'm on a new schedule. I would have started this last week, but I desperately wanted to finish my expressions in spinning skein for last friday that I let the knitting slide again. I'm looking forward to dusting off those socks I've been working on and really get down to business with finishing them!

I did finish a skein of my "Grandmother" yarn. I used up about 1/2 of my fiber, and I'm not really sure what the weight of my skein is, my scale isn't the best. Anyways, it ended up being light fingering, about 240 yards. From far away, it looks kind of brown, but up close you can see the reds and greens. I think that I won't spin the rest of the fiber the way I spun this, and I'm not too sure what I'm going to make it into. We'll see :).

At our latest meeting, we chose the topic of a painting. The painting that got picked is called the Soul of the Rose by John William Waterhouse. It's one of my favorites. I've decided to get out of my box a little and I chose to spin the color of her hair. I got 1 oz of chocolate brown alpaca, 1/2 oz of burnt orange merino, and 1/2 oz of cinnabar merino and have carded them together to get the beautiful red/auburn/brown of her hair. I also got and ounce of tussah silk, all white for the pearls in her hair. I'm excited that I've matched the color rather well :).