Back to spinning!

 If you've seen the January '25 issue of HSN then you'll know that I'm quite taken by the Snow Queen Snood.

I'm itching to do some spinning because I've been occupied for months now on a knitting project. It's quite relaxing to do late at night now that I've reached the body, which is long rows of stockinette with a short section of lace at each end. But all the same, it's going to take ages to finish. (Especially if I get distracted by other projects. Monogamous? Me? Never!)

The snood is a Zoom Loom project (or other square pin loom). I'm also keen to use that tool again. It's a quick and fun way to use handspun yarn. 

I had a rummage and found this yarn, left over from my Fulton Shrug. I bought the yarn (undyed) from my friend Jenn at fibreworkshop.co.uk. She studied the Norfolk Horn breed, found local flocks, bought the fleece and had it processed and spun.  It really is beautiful yarn. I asked Freyalyn to dye it for me in teal.  My phone's camera doesn't like the colour and tried to correct it to grey. I've done my best to correct it to something like how it looks in real life.

I also found these nests which are obviously fleece that I've processed myself. I've lost track of where it came from. It may be the last of this fleece but I'm not sure about that. It's not particularly fine and I think it will match the Norfolk Horn quite well if spun to the same thickness. 

I'm not sure whether the quantity I have here is enough. A quick calculation based on 8 yards per Zoom Loom square means that I'll need around 380 yards of yarn altogether (blue and white). I guess I have plenty of the blue, probably not the white. I'll make the yarn and see what I have. It may mean altering the pattern (more of the plain blue squares).

I'm trying to spin longdraw, since the Norfolk Horn yarn is very bouncy. I'm having to pick out some VM as I go.