T Stands for Still Spinning

 Happy T for Tuesday. We all meet up over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog to visit friends with a drink related photo to share. Find link in my sidebar.

  In my area of Missouri we have had spring like weather this past week. Lots of wind and rain, still pretty cool at night but some days warms up to the 60's and close to the 70's-so no complaints here-except I have not been able to clean up the yard and burn leaves with the high wind.

 Quite a few fisherman on the lake over the weekend with the sunshine and warmer temps. Larry and his friend went out fishing today early in the morning (Monday) as the weather is changing tonight into rain and cold. So happy Larry can finally get out and go fishing. Update: well bummer, Larry has the worst luck at times, never did "get that" as He is someone that is always helping others etc. He came home about an hour after he left-problems with the very expensive Garmin set up that controls his trolling motor etc-so they have no way to control the boat- now that it is not working properly. He hurt his back in the process ugh  Takes hours on hold to get a Garmin tech person.  

  I am still spinning. Mostly going pretty well and then I get back to my too thick and uneven yarns-ugh. I did find another video on how to make a very long roving from the blending board. The first time I tried it I messed it up but this morning it came out perfect-loving this method so much more than the other two I tried out and shared.

Here is mine

  This is what it looks like when finished tearing it to make one piece-this will get drafted out-made thinner-for spinning

and stretched out a bit

I took a couple different spinning classes at Fiber U over the years when we lived closer to this event at the woods house.  I mentioned to one of my teachers that I get so frustrated that I have not improved my spinning although I keep trying. She says you must spin every day-at least that is what she needed to do. Others just jump right in and make nice yarn right away-it has been a struggle for me over the years. I love it so keep trying to make better yarn

I dug out a couple of my spinning books and have been trying out other ways to work with my spindles. I do want to get my spinning wheel out one day too and see if I can figure out the issue why the wheel won't stay turning.

  The pretty tweed finished This is one of my favorites so far.

I am very happy with this one that I shared last week on T  There was a couple long rovings of striped colors in one of the mixed art bags I had purchased-so I blended it up on the blending board-very pretty

 I subscribed to the Winsor Newton newsletter about a year ago, and have found it very interesting. They share different artists' works and also from time to time history of colors. Last month they shared a book that sounded really interesting, so I searched online for a copy. So far I am loving the author's writing, and this will be packed full of information. I learned so much about Van Gogh already that I didn't know before. Have any of you read this one?

I made gluten free brownies over the weekend-yum I had a taste for them I bake them in a square cast iron pan lined with parchment paper

Went well with my tea

Happy T everyone and new week

Today's sunrise (Monday)