And......We have yarn!

Oh, it's overspun, thick and thin, lumpy and bumpy, but durned if it isn't yarn! LOL The picture turned out awful, and I only took one pic this time, so that will have to do for documentation of my very first spinning effort on my new wheel, who still remains nameless, poor little thing. This is yarn that only a mother could love. And by golly, I do love it. I found a pattern on the Yarn Harlot that I liked for a scarf, but it just didn't seem to work, .....well actually I loved the way it looked, but I just don't have enought yarn. So I have cast on 12 sts with my size 15 straights and I'm just doing it in garter stitch. Sometimes the simplest thing is the best, and I think that is giong to be true with this yarn and this scarf. I just want something that I can use a few times and then keep for posterity. I have found myself wanting to get a brush and see what it looks like with a little halo brushed out of it. I have no idea what the fiber is. Got it last year at MI Fiber Festival and the vendor didn't mark it as to content. I wish that I had kept a record of who I purchased it from. The outside of the ball of roving was clean and nice, Ha! it was full of VM after the first few layers. That wasn't nice! Oh, well. I'm still in love with the yarn. Aren't we always in love with our firstborn anything!
I am now spinning some fiber that my friend JT gave me. It is a little coarse(which she told me when she donated it) and I plan to use it for my orphan knitting. I think that after it is spun and plied and washed several times and has plenty of hair conditioner used on it, that it will be just fine and will make a nice warm little vest for a toddler over in Russia or Kazahkstan who is living in an orphanage that is only heated to about 45 deg. F in the winter. Thank you JT, one more little one warmed!
Gotta go knit on DH's hunting socks. Apologies to the vegetarian reader and animal lover. But, we do live in the midwest and farm country and we were both raised on this way of life. DH never kills anything that we aren't willing to eat. And truth be told, I think he spends more time 'watching' the wildlife than anything. At least, there is never much meat in the freezer that he harvested. Last year was 'venison free'. LOL Anyway, I am knitting him some socks. I started them for the dgs, but they were too wide in the ankle and I wasn't willing to frog them, and they are perfect for DH. DGS will get the next pair. I am just using some Wool-Ease that I got in that big yarn haul that I found this past summer. I actually have some Encore set aside for DH some hunting socks, but that will have to wait.
I knit a Mason Dixon Baby Kimono sweater of the weekend. What an easy knit, and very fast, I really didn't have a lot of time to devote to it this weekend. But it went to fast that it got finished in 2 days, anyway. I will post a pic after I get it sewn up. That, by the way, is my only complaint about this pattern, I hate sewing up knits. But his one is worth it. I was feeling sort of crumby about spending the money on that book, but now that I've knit something from it, I'm glad that I have it and I'm sure that I will enjoy using some of the other patterns in it.
Going to click my neeedles now,
DJ