Black and White Challenge

Here are the Black and White "yarns" I spun today for the challenge with the Fiber Artists and Spinners on Facebook. Really, they are black and white. The photo turned out blue and so I changed it to black and white in Picassa only I forgot to save it, so here it is in BLUE!

The piece on the left is black and white tissue paper, spun, and then core spun with a commercial black single. I haven't measured the yardage yet.

In the middle, I have 15 yards of recycled silk fabric, spun, and then plied with the same paper yarn.

And finally, on the right is six yards of the paper yarn spun with some black and white silky thread, hand knotted and then waxed.

A whole package of tissue paper will make a lot of paper yarn. I filled one bobbin and still have some strips left over.

The Best Laid Plans

My plans for the morning consisted of
spinning
my bowl of tissue paper strips.
I wanted to get it done first thing this morning
because I want to try spinning some other papers
however
TESSIE
decided it would be more fun for us to spend the morning playing with her
 Hedgehog
which reappeared yesterday after a long absence
(put away in the cupboard).
Tessie is hard to resist. She always looks like she can't imagine that you would want to do anything but play with her! Sometimes she brings me toy after toy hoping that one of them will interest me. But today it is all
HEDGEHOG