Spinning Silk

Since I am still doing four trips a day to put drops in Mom's eye, I have to do things that I can either take with me when I stay there or stop and start.
One of the things that I can take with me is my spinning wheel.  The one I have - a Kromski Fantasia- fits right in the car seat with the seatbelt to hold it in place.

I had recently purchased some "waste silk" roving and some silk"cloud" to spin. So I packed up Meg (my spinning wheel) and the supplies and took them with me. I had decided to core spin the silk onto a cotton yarn that I had in my stash.  Here are the three of them together.

The cone of yarn is black and white wrapped around each other or plied together.   The pinker silk (right side) is the "waste silk" and the red/gold/black is the silk cloud.  I spun a nice bit of the silk around the core thread, but I still have plenty to work on.
Here is my bobbin at the moment.

This is a lot like spinning straw into gold.  Perhaps you should call me "Rumpelstiltskin" - or not, I am not as devious as he was.

Pink has never been one of my favorite colors but I am loving this combination. The black silk from the cloud hasn't shown up on this yet.  But in some places I have left the core thread showing. That way there will be a little bit of black throughout the spun yarn.
I also have some other silk fiber that I may add in also.

I don't have a place at Mom's to set up my sewing, so you may be seeing a lot of fiber work for a couple of weeks.
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