And now to answer the original question!
Re: How did you get in to spinning?That's easy! Fleecewife and jaykay 'enabled' me!
Abetted and assisted by ellisr and BH.
I'd always felt somewhat wistful watching those groups of spinners in a corner of a tent somewhere at country and livestock shows, but never felt emboldended to encroach on their togetherness. (So now those of you who saw 'Spinners' Corner' at the Scottish Smallholder and Grower Show will now realise why I was so passionate about engaging passers by and giving everyone a go.
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After Lanark last year, BH suggested I got some rare breed sheep, I selected Castlemilk Moorits because I really, really like them, and then I thought that maybe I better see if I could use their fleece as well as their meat.
Emboldened now with spinners here, and with having started knitting again after ellisr posted her really useful and very easy wristwarmer pattern, I joined the same Guild jaykay goes to, she set me up to have a go on her wheel, I struggled and wrestled and made terrible rope, snapping knicker elastic, and a general mess, and absorbed all the attention of the poor, very kind, lady sat next to me (jaykay was in a workshop so had had to leave me to it) for about 4 hours. During which, once or twice, for about 8 seconds a time, I felt what it would be like to make yarn.
I liked that feeling
so after Christmas I joined the Guild, took out one of their loan wheels, and persevered. I acquire physical skills very slowly, so it took me a loooooong time, but eventually I 'got' it. No looking back now!