I have finally finished spinning the flax singles from my flax roving. Flax prepared as a roving is not the traditional form, but I didn’t know this when I made the purchase. It has been a challenge to spin, but I’ve learned new techniques and have produced a yarn.

I wound off my singles nostepinne style into two center pull balls.

I plied the two balls together to even out the thickness differences. Despite weighing out the roving, the balls were different weights, but I solved the excess issue by doubling up the leftover. I plied using my spinning wheel. Flax when spun is called linen. I suppose I should use that term for my yarn!

I wound off the two-ply yarn onto a niddy noddy, to make a skein.

My book tells me that the next step is to boil the skein. I’m going to have to work up my courage for that, so I will share in a future post.