Finished ball of yarn spun on the Qashqai spindle.

Antique rosette II, the prettiest spindle I've seen so far.

The Feb challenge was "New Beginnings"... I saw people talk about spring colours and earth colours, but other people focused on technique or personal beginnings.

Navajo spindle - 80 cm long

wood: ancient oak from bordeaux wine vessel

Best spun in a little bowl - makes nice and very fine yarns - also bigger diameter yarns and suitable for plying too.

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The Spindles up the Famous Spanish Steps, Roma

The rainbow of the hearts desire.

Spindling through canals.

Coiling like wire.

Open, see free.

Dream to inspire. -Resa

Another photo of these.

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Removed Quill Housing and spindle. Straighten out downfeed stop screw and quill clamp, bearing inspection and general cleanup

Seen at Ashleworth Ham Gloucestershire UK.

Spindle manufacturing and assembling at YCM in Taiwan.

More pictures of my visit at YCM in Taiwan: www.metaalmagazine.nl/fotos/machinefabriek-ycm-taiwan/

Yellow Spindle Coral (Clavulinopsis fusiformis) a/k/a Golden Spindles. Portola Redwoods State Park. San Mateo Co., Calif.

Joane Duncan and her spindle from Turkey

Dervish Forrester Spindle, with handdyed Romney Locks

The mom of our youngest spindler.

hand painted stuffed muslin on a vintage wood candle holder

My new Bosworth spindle (Jatoba wood whorl), and the Party Favor roving pack I got. I went back on Sunday to check out the booth; it came from Puckerbrush Farms. The spindle came from Ellen's Half Pint Farm's booth because I wasn't smart enough to find Johnathan and Sheila Bosworth at Journey Wheel until, like, Sunday. I'm kind of stupid around yarn fumes. ;) The people at Ellen's are so nice, though, that it doesn't really matter.

Table lamps made from large scale textile mill spindles, spindles also available separately

It may look funky, but this baby can FLY!

Woodturning tuition - morning practice was beads and coves using a spindle gouge and skew for the beads and a spindle gouge for the coves.

Wow - took me forever to get my cell phone to give up this video... Two front portions of bike frames, one with a pulley and knitting needle (actually a Tunisian Crochet hook) stuck through and secured to the pulley, and the other with a front wheel. There is a piece of yarn as a belt drive around the wheel and the pulley - spin the wheel - TaDa - spinning wheel. It's worth mentioning that the pulley section is a smaller bike, for about an eight year old size, and the wheel section is a mountain bike style that would be just a bit too small for me. I'm 5' 9" (and 1/4!) The smaller pulley section frame happens to fit INSIDE the wheel section frame, so when my drive band stretches, I can just slice OUT the pulley section frame a little... I want to try a fan belt as a drive band.

I keep spinning faster and faster on it - but I'm estimating it's about three times as fast to spin than my drop spindle - which I still LOVE - but sometimes you just need mileage :-)

Orange batt, red moorit roving and carbonized bamboo, each spun as singles on a Ledbetter spindle, then plied together.

Spindler Hall was built in 1940 and dedicated to Lavina Spindler, a WMU faculty member from 1906 to 1939. Throughout this period she served as Director of the Campus School, Dean of Women, and Freshman Advisor. Originally a women's dormitory, the building is now used to house doctoral, graduate, senior, and non-traditional students.

The photo on the left was taken in December of 1958.

The photo on the right was taken in March of 2012 by WMU School of Art student, Qizhi Liu.

She cuddled up on her own with Snoopy.

A Colt employee demonstrates the use of a single spindle drill, marked "175" on its side. The drill was most likely used to drill holes in the frame of a revolver. The young man pictured is wearing a unique square folded hat that appears to be made of paper.

Museum of Connecticut History, Accession 2000.494.04

More from the Cefn Ila photomeeting on the theme of Autumn fruits and colours. This spindle is nicely backlit by the seeds of the willowherbs.

Brig. Gen. Mark Spindler, U.S. Army Military Police School commandant, and Command Sgt. Maj. John McNeirney, USAMPS regimental command sergeant major, induct retired Brig. Gen. Rodney Johnson into the U.S. Army Military Police Corps Regimental Hall of Fame Sept. 26, in Fort Leonard Wood’s Pershing Community Center. To date, a total of 69 members have been inducted into the MP Corps Regimental Hall of Fame that was established in 1992. Army photo by Michael Curtis/Released

no tools except knife - and a curious brain....

Rare breed wool and a Forrester Granny spindle bought at Black Sheep Gathering. Blogged here.

Again using the exerciser, this time to check that the spindle motor would run correctly.

Petite Russian Spindle of Osage Orange

Weight:48

Length: 8 7/8"

wooden spindle

spindle quiver, felted

This spindle was shown by one of the participants. I would loved to have one like this. It is gorgeous

For our daily challenge on 5 February, six railing spindles in the fading light and processed with ColorEfex 4.

on bosworth maxi, zircote (60 g). fiber is CVM-llama blend from Amelia at the Bellwether.

microtubules and spindle tree