hiya! I just thought I should also add to more of the comm's activity. I've been spindling for just under 9 years now (whoa!) Because of my location, I've never managed to justify having a spinning wheel, not when toy spindles are so cheap...
But lately, I've gotten into supported spinning with a Russian spindle. I have always been a laceweight spinner (I just really like fine gauge yarns!), so I'm quite pleased I've managed to go even finer. Also, I've realised in some ways I'm really quite lazy, so I've started chain-plying my singles instead of spinning multiple cops and plying them together (partly also at the weight I'm doing, I find trying to guesstimate by weight still leaves a lot left to be Andean-plied).
So, just sharing some of my 2018 spins (only some, even at this age, i'm still mucking about with unfinished yarns). Sometimes I do feel my process is quite crazy, but on the whole they seem all right. Can you believe I'm spinning too much I hardly ever knit/crochet them? I just end up giving them away.
The green one is silk-merino (25:75), the purple/pink is 22micron merino, the white is merino-angora (50:50) which is from World of Wool and I'm gutted they've stopped stocking angora mixes, because it was so affordable and well-blended. I'm not sure about the yellow... it was given to me by a friend, lol. That one is just with a plain drop spindle (bottom-whorl).