Press Dinner | 22.12.2014

My custom set :)

Extensive Silk Weaving Plant of the Kityu, Orimonokaisha, Kiryu, Japan

2011 National Building Museum

Roving n°1 from Pancake and Lulu

My first not-homemade spindle ever!

My class spindle purchased during lessons with Diane Mulholland. Spindle is made from Cherry - not sure what wood the shaft is made from.

Dallas Heritage Village

Ripe spindle berries on tree at the Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve

Jenkins Standard Turkish spindle made of Osage Orange wood. Weighs 1.48 oz.

This picture is the result of a "photo-hike" on a sunny autumn-afternoon in the county of Erding. I liked the colors of the rose-hips and berries. This one shows the berries of the European spindle-tree, one of the most frequent trees along the roads here.

A beautiful gift from the bobaknitters. Thank you.

made by Mark at Pumpkin Hill Farm

UPDATE! Now available on Etsy at: www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9589505

I love this. I'm trying to decide if I think I can sell them on etsy. I LOVE it.....it's my new favorite spindle but I'm not sure if I'm the only one who would want one.

I exercised great restraint in not getting a drop spindle. Sooner or later I'll enter the world of spinning, but not this year.

KnittyPitty Lego drop spindles!!! Spin great and don't break!!! LOL!

Butterfly Girl Designs, carnelian whorl, 35 grams (1.2 oz) **$25**

whorl: 1 7/8"

shaft: 7"

spindle-spun skeins, left is cotton & lambswool (50-50), right two is wool & llama (I think) from a local source (Mio, Michigan)

The berries of Euonymous europaeus in Sheffield Botanical Gardens.

A very special spindle made with shells from beaches of the Outer Hebrides. They were collected by Marion, who took a holiday there earlier this year. She collected enough for me to make several very special spindles for the shop - and this one's for her. The shells include a European cowrie, blue-ray mussels, and a 'sea button' which is the tiny shell of a sea urchin.

This is rhythm because the spindles of the banister are right after one another making it a endless "line". The fact that the spindles look like they are never ending is appealing to the eye.

My custom set :)

Yet another lovely turkish spindle from the Spanish Peacock. This one has a lignum vitae shaft & a flame alder whorl.

Whorl: 5"

Shaft: 10.5"

Weight: 1.2 oz

Kriech-Spindelstrauch

IST Crafts Spindle, 5 cm whorl

Santos Rosewood on Sycamore, Sycamore shaft

15 grams

Fiber from sunsetfibers.etsy.com

Kundert 1.3-oz spindle with about 2 oz of plied fingering weight "oatmeal" yarn.

This is a Charis Spindle

My new spindle!

IST Crafts Spindle, 5 cm whorl

Santos Rosewood on Sycamore, Sycamore shaft

15 grams

Fiber from sunsetfibers.etsy.com

Midnight - Purple and black wool spun on my Spanish Peacock lace spindle, plied on my Schacht spindle. Given as a gift to His Excellency Lamorak, Baron Middle Marches.

She pulls to the right. Taken while our SUV was up on the lift, this shot shows what Carlos the service advisor said is causing the front wheels to be out of whack. Did you know that the right front wheel is supposed to sit farther forward than the left front wheel, to compensate for the slope in the road while driving? Well that's not the case here, quite the opposite actually. To remedy the problem, we're replacing what you see before you: the lower control arm and the spindle. Apparently they're bent. Parts come in tomorrow, and when they do, back I go to the shop.