Spinning with a baby on my lap...

Well not a baby, but a four-year-old and not so much my lap as on the couch between my legs. Yup, the four-year-old told me he knows how to spin, so he should do it. We compromised, he pressed on the pedals and I would handle the roving. So that's what we did. It worked pretty well. Except for when he got distracted by the TV. Should you wish to try this at home with your own preschooler: try spinning while playing 'red light/green light', it seemed to work the best.
I, or I should say, we spun this:


It's from my first attempts at dyeing roving. It's really pretty and really, really soft. I'm thinking of turning it into a three-ply with the white that I had spun earlier. Or alternating two colors for a 2-ply, but we'll see.

I have to ask: people who sell roving--how do you keep the roving looking so neat? Mine was looking a bit mangled---it didn't felt, but the presentation is sorely sloppy. Maybe I need a drumcarder? Ha, like I can pay for that now---have you seen the prices of those lately?

Later, tomorrow I get to sub in an art class. Yay. At a sucky school. Blech.

Yeah I have a pessimistic attitude. What's it to ya?