love is all you need

You know how in Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter celebrates his Un-Birthday? Well this weekend, we were Un-Spinning; doing anything and everything but actual spinning.
We soaked, simmered and steamed:

We let our semi-clean wool dry in the sunshine:
We made our own drop spindles:
And we tried:

And we even got Dad to try:
We were not successful:
We even took a mid-spinning-session trip to the store to buy dog slicker brushes thinking they would be similar to hand carders in getting our wool straight and fluffy. We did have a reference book with many helpful pictures, but as none of us has ever seen any actual spinning, the pictures weren't enough to grasp the actual movements. I chalked it up to the way we processed our fleece. Mom chalked it up to us not trying hard enough. My sister probably chalked it up to her morning sickness. Dad chalked it up to us getting in over our heads without doing enough research first. He is probably the most right. The learning curve rears its ugly head.