Spinning in Public!

So Saturday, September 20th, was Spin In Public Day... and I did!







We headed to a favorite park that has fishing, boating, hiking, biking, and riding trails... and I did some much needed training for the upcoming Spinzilla, while hubby went for a hilly hike.
 

There were plenty of curious adults and children, some as always were intrigued that my Kromski Minstrel is not an antique, but a fairly modern wheel (I bought mine in January 2011 so she's probably a 2010 model) .  One boy was really excited that he knew what I was doing.. from halfway down the boardwalk he was yelling at his younger sibling "she's making string.. she's making string!!!"....  another group of girls and mom had gone to Maryland Sheep & Wool for the first time back in May, so had some more interesting questions about the actual construction of the yarn and what breed of sheep I was spinning.

The bobbin shot below was the first four oz braid finished, before I started drafting the 2nd braid... 

It was a lot of fun, and even with all the talking - I got 5 oz of singles spun in about 2 hours, from an amateur's hand dyed top that was just a bit sticky to draft.