Spinning. Love it. I don’t know why sometimes I get obsessed with spinning for days.
Anyway, I have been meaning to write about the fact that last year I joined up with the Fiber Binder Club. It is the brainchild of Benita and Sandy. Every month I get a little package on my front porch. My Fiberdog scares the crap out of the post person and lets me know it is out there. 
This month it was some Lincoln fiber from an adult ewe named Chocolate who really likes to snuffle in snow to get a bite to eat. Lincoln is new to me and I have been spinning wool for over 20 years. When I first joined the club I received the binder along with the first sample. Each generous sample comes with a fact sheet printed on cardstock with raw and washed fibers attached to it. This is the 14th installment! Mailings have included different wool fibers, flax, silk, and llama. Sampling the fibers has taught what no book can. I really love down wools like Dorset but would have never known that. I dislike spinning camelids like llama. I would love to have more experience with flax. Every month I take out my reference materials and read all I can about the fiber of the month. Mr. Lady can even recite Bradford counts and suitability of spinning styles and uses of some of the fibers. Apparently he has been paying attention after all and seems to look forward to each month’s delivery as much as I do.
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