Best of a bad job

The last thing I remember doing on the spinning front before my "sabbatical" was carding fleece and making some rolags.  I wasn't really getting on with carding (I haven't met many people who do) and the rolags were, frankly, horrible with lots of bobbly bits in them and all slightly greasy. 

Every time I went into my loom room I'd see this sitting accusingly by the door:

 This week I've just spun the lot of it with the following result:

It's not very good but it's been quite a cathartic exercise in a funny kind of way. I know that two years ago I couldn't have spun the rolags at all, let along persisted until they were all used up.  I definitely know that I now want to spin colourful and attractive yarn!

The trick with this stuff, however, is to try and weave or knit something vaguely nice out of it.

Time to scour the books and magazines or even venture on to Ravelry for inspiration.