On Friday, my new spindles came in the mail! These are the birthday spindles from my mom which I had planned to special order but it ended up that the spindles I wanted were in stock! Lucky me! These are both Jenkins Turkish spindles, I should have taken pictures of both of them together so you can see how small the Kuchulu is. The Kuchulu is the first one in the pictures, the shaft is purpleheart wood and the whorl is hormigo negro wood. Apparently, hormigo negro wood is native to Guatemala and is used there to make marimbas. It weighs in at 9 grams (.3 oz) which is absolutely tiny! I love it, as you can see I've been spinning a lot of the merino/silk blend that came with it to give it a test drive. The second one, a Meadowlark, is just as beautiful and a delight to spin with. The wood for the whorl is pink ivory and weighs in at 21 grams (.7 oz). It's been hard to choose between two amazing spindles as I've been acquainting myself with both of them. They join their sister, my Jenkins Turkish delight spindle that I got for Christmas.
(ETA - Here's a pic of my whole Jenkins family: the Delight, Lark and Kuchulu)
Yesterday, I played with some more kool-aid and fiber in the beautiful cool morning we had, while awaiting Laurie's return from the airport. This time I went for more dark colors and I really like the way it turned out. The fiber is Wensleydale wool, I dyed about 4 oz of it.
I included this picture because you can't really see the dark purple in the other one, the other looks very pink, which is really not what it looks like in real life.
And here is the Wensleydale fiber that I dyed on Thursday. (I promised a better pic than the one I took on my cell phone!)
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