My first couple of sessions with the Majacraft Aura were not as successful as I had hoped, but tonight I sat down and everything magically made sense. I’ve got the hang of the foot pedals and tensioning, both of which are very different from my Traveller. I’m still not crazy about the wire rings the yarn has to travel through; they catch and make me have to hand wind the sequins, but other than that, it’s pretty awesome.

I spun my little heart out tonight and filled up a bobbin: TEN OUNCES on the nose. It’s made from 3 bags of carder scraps and embellished with 10” teeswater locks, angelina blobs, English Leicester locks, sequins & beads. The skein is so monstrous; it will probably take a week to dry. I thought it was appropriate to spin a yarn on my Lexi-brand spinning wheel, block it on my Lexi-brand yarn tensioner, and it will eventually be made into an art piece mimicking Lexi’s nailed wall-art from the Lillehammer show.