Pocket Wheel Spinning

I posted about borrowing the pocket wheel from my friend Jan to see if I liked it here.

To test it out using both types of flyers, I pulled out some hand dyed Blue Faced Leicester that I got from hannahbelle when she sent me the fiber with my spindle purchase.

I spun this with the regular flyer and it was a little fiddly.  There was not really enough fiber and it looked very nice spun up.  I took the little wheel to knit group at Starbucks and it got quite a few looks.

I dug around my stash pile and found some Louet Dark Blue Faced Leicester that I purchased at the Riverside weaving conference last year.

This fiber was heavenly and spun up like butter.  I used the WooLee Winder flyer for this fiber and I have fallen in love with this flyer.

Here are the two bobbins of fiber that I plied together.

I decided to ply these bobbins on my Hansen mSpinner using the new plying techniques that I learned from Judith MacKenzie from her Gentle Art of Plying DVD.

Here is the resulting yarn.  I ended up with 193.5 yards of 12 wpi weighing 6 ounces.

I have decided that I'm not totally in love with the Pocket Wheel.  I heard a rumor that Schacht will be coming out with a travel wheel and I'm going to wait to see what that looks like.  In all reality, I don't need another wheel.