A few pictures

All of these picture were from the second meeting with my mentor. She handed me a spindle and we basically jumped in on the yarn making process.
This is the softest stuff in the entire world, angora (which is rabbit fur) roving. Roving is the clean pre-spun fiber. Before spinning, you have to "draft", that is where you basically loosen up the fibers by pulling it gently. This makes it much easier to spin. This is me attempting to spin for the very first time. The fiber in this picture is pure wool. I didn't have a before picture of the roving, but it looks very similar the angora in the picture above, but much less soft. Here is an upclose shot of my spindle and a small amount of yarn!