Some of you might know that I participated in the 2016 Spin the Bin Challenge over on Ravelry. I had earmarked a total of 125 oz of fiber to spin and while I did spin a few other braids this year, that 125 oz was what I mainly focused on.
If you are interested in all the various and sundry rovings and fibers that I picked for the challenge, you can visit my Ravelry project page for that here.
Most of what I spun were 4-oz increments, but there were a few 8-oz'ers and a few 4-ozs that I paired together for a larger combospin. I had a couple of smaller batches too, but not many of those.
Here's all the skeins spun up and ready to have grown-up lives as yarn!
There are individual project pages on Ravelry under my Handspun tab if you want to find out any details about them. The total yards spun from the bin were 9553 yards, which I'm pretty daggone proud of. More than half were fingering-weight yarns, with just a few sport to DK thrown in there, and only 2 worsted I think. (I didn't include the odd other braids I spun in that yardage total, but I know it was over 10K yards with those included for the year.)
I've already used 2 of the yarns to knit up items (1 pair of socks, 1 hat), but I can see a lot of other fun projects waiting to be started here.
I'm not going to participate in the 2017 challenge. I decided I wanted a little less pressure on my spinning time, but I do plan to continue working on my stash next year. There are still a lot of pretty things to be spun up!
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