J'ai marche' dans le merde

I learned a valuable lesson last night...it turned out okay, but I had a near disaster with some yarn I had just washed. Here's the lesson, when you wind fine yarn off a spindle, wind it onto a swift or chair back, so that it is all neat BEFORE you wash it. I guess I have just been lucky in the past. The beautiful periwinkle/purple yarn spun from some of Kae's hand-dyed wool roving was almost a loss and it surely was a mess. I was able to get it all unknotted and wound onto the swift to dry overnight....but I was really suffering last night around 10:00 PM.

Here is a photo of it all set and neatly wound into a pretty skein. I used the quarter for perspective.

I plied and wound and am currently washing/setting the twist on the even thinner blue/green Falkland from Kae, that I spun on the tiny little Briar Rose and plied on the Deep Cup Spinner's Choice spindle. I'll post a picture tomorrow. I have to say it was harder to keep the wound ball under control when the yarn was so thin. I'll post a photo tomorrow.