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* Bosworth midi-spindle in paduak wood
* Greensleeves "Ethan Jakob" in redwood burl & purpleheart
* Greensleeves "Vixen" in paduak wood
Made with reclaimed fabrics including a pinky red cotton, reclaimed poly cotton black lining, fabric panel printed on cotton/linen blend fabric across the front designed by Hollabee for Ink & Spindle.
The strap has been made from black cotton webbing, and two wooden buttons carved out of recycled hardwood timber by my Dad.
This Tibetan support spindle is approximately 12 1/2 inches long and weighs 38g (1.3 ounces). The Cherry whorl measures approximately 1.75 inches and has been attached to a Walnut shaft. The tip has been crafted from Honduran Rosewood.
A 0.6 oz Nordic w from Paradise fibers. It has a 10” poplar shaft and 3” diameter walnut whorl that detaches for travel.and was designed by Priscilla Gibson-Roberts created by Jiorn Piel.
Two spindles made to order for a Ravelry user. I like how the spin and weight of these two spindles are complimentary.
Al placing a Masters Division car on a set of alignment stands to accurately place the weight load on the axles before measuring and adjusting the spindle's camber.
Ormolu design on Roostery's Minorca table runner. You can also get this fabric under my design name, Ormolu, at Spoonflower.com
A walk to get the paper and have a bit of exercise, on a very dull and damp day, but enlivened by going through Hill Hook Nature Reserve. I could do with retaking some of these when there is a bit more light to allow shorter shutter speeds and better depth of field.
Seeing the spindle took me back 70 years or so, to Blacklands Copse on the Isle of Wight, which was a regular walk as a small child, and my mother taught me about spindle trees. They were never like this though, and these seem to be garden centre varieties, not the true wild spindle.
this is the lovely birthday present from my sister, my very first Bosworth spindle from Journey Wheel.
It's a Midi size Bocoto wood whorl, about 1.4 oz. It's been lovely to spin. The yarn on the spindle is a blend of merino, mohair and angora.
I bought the spindle at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival in 2006 and can't for the life of remember the guys name but he's always in the main exibit hall. The distaff is made by Cascade Spindle and I bought it from The Bellwether.
Finial: Purpleheart
Shaft: Purpleheart
Whorl: Mesquite
Inlay: Russian Laquered Brooch
Weight: 1.19 oz/33 grams
Whorl Diameter: 7.5 cm
Length: 27 cm
Fiber: BFL from Fibermonster.etsy.com
Moves quick, like a spider, and loves to tear its victims apart as they burn. It is part organic and part robot, making its fierceness and precision extremely deadly.
Asciano Spindle Series II
Wood: Cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa)
Weight: 1.1 oz
Name: Rudolph
Purchased at Stitches West 2009 by my husband as a surprise
CD spindle-trash bound ;( my recycler won't accept #5 plastic
Green Ribbon scrap
Measuring tape scrap
Vintage Rick Rack wrapper
Old thimble as dome topper/handle
Mini tomato pin cushion from one my cat got a hold of!
Vintage Buttons
Scissors + needle & thread
Narcissus 'Van Sion' at Monewden.
This double-form daffodil may be seen in large numbers in a field at Monewden. The plant was first flowered by Vincent Sion, a Fleming, living in London in 1620.
Who planted the original stock in the parish of Monewden? Frederick William Martin took the Rookery Farm in 1899 from the Garnham family, who are believed to have held the farm for several generations. Gravestones in Monewden churchyard record Garnham burials from 1830 - 57 and Narcissus 'Van Sion' can be seen growing on three of the graves.
Martins' Meadow.
These three meadows are among the few flower-rich hay meadows still left in Suffolk. As they have never been fertilised, sprayed or drained, the site supports a wide range of wildflowers. To maintain the meadows’ diversity management is by a summer hay cut followed by aftermath grazing.
In spring and early summer, visitors can enjoy superb displays of wildflowers, including early-purple, green-winged and pyramidal orchids. In late summer the meadows bloom once more, this time with meadow saffron. Most of the hedges enclosing the site are at least 100 years old and contain many different species of trees and shrubs including field maple, hazel, hawthorn and spindle. They are maintained by rotational coppicing or laying, in which sections are periodically cut to the ground, encouraging them to re-grow and thicken to produce a dense hedge that is good for wildlife.
The reserve also has two orchards which include many local varieties of apple, along with pear, plum, quince, medlar and walnut.
Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)
Cornelia Parker
Originally commissioned in 2016 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its roof garden, this work was first seen against New York's iconic skyline. Presented here in the Royal Academy's Annenberg Courtyard the structure is every bit as compelling and unsettling.
For Parker, the found object is key. Here she dismantled a traditional America red barn and appropriated its components: the planks of the long sidings became the house's walls and its corrugated roof provided material for the roof tiles. The design is based on the house in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho, which in turn was modelled on a painting by Edward Hopper, House by the Railroad (1925). Hopper's painting was also a reference point for Parker who was drawn to its pared-back presentation and sense of eerie isolation.
Like Hitchcock's stage set, Parker's PsychoBarn is a façade, with the supporting framework left deliberately visible. The structures also share a slightly reduced scale, and both these characteristics add to the illusionary effect. The combination of the red barn's symbolism, with all its connotations of rural idyll and wholesomeness, with the sinister psychological complexity of Hitchcock's house presents a series of deliberate paradoxes. The work's title references a term from developmental psychology - the 'transitional object' - which refers to something which brings comfort, while being a substitute for reality.
[Royal Academy]