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16/10/2026 Hob Hey Wood community orchard hedgerow, Frodsham, Cheshire
My favourite find of the day was a good display of Spindle fruits in the orchard hedge. With their four-lobed pink capsules which open to reveal fleshy orange fruits (arils) surrounding the seeds, I think they are the finest of our hedgerow fruits (though definitely NOT edible – all parts of the plant are toxic and the fruits were used in the past as a very fierce purgative). I also have childhood memories of the Spindle – one of its folk names is skewer-wood and I can remember my grandfather cutting and peeling Spindle branches to make skewers used in trussing the chickens we raised, killed and prepared for market.
Bright pink Spindle berries popping open to reveal their bright orange seeds, in the garden on day 21 of Wild October.
A layout of ShapeOko parts using a PJ 3 Speed Spindle from cnconabudget.com.
- 200mm section of makerslide
- 3D printed spindle "sleeve"
- 3 speed spindle
- insertion nuts (qty 4)
- M5 x 10mm button head cap screws (qty 4)
- M3 x 10mm cap screws and low-pro nuts (jam nuts)
-Allen wrenches
My favourite non-edible berry (they are poisonous but they look great). There is always a good show of them at Cefn Ila.
I love these funny looking flowers, which come into their own when the trees are bare and the colours of winter are beginning to get that bleached out appearance.
2/6/09
I wove a 2x6” bookmark on the Weavette loom, following the instructions in Modular Textures: Patterns for the Weavette & Weave-It Looms Volume 1 by Licia Conforti. Woven in plain weave.
I used Ashland Bay Sandalwood Merino roving, spun on a homemade drop spindle, for the bookmark in the foreground. The purple/blue/pink bookmark in-progress is corriedale/merino "vintage" dye.
I am very excited about this. Well as you can all see, I have the beautiful silk alpaca waiting for me to spin it. I don't want to waste it so I am practicing and practicing. The spindle I got originally when I first started was too small I found. It didn't have enough weight to it and didn't hold very much spun yarn.
My husband and I came up with this one! It spins forever! I love it. I used a CD to trace and we glued the dowel. The burn marks on the side are where my husband used a grinder to make the edges really smooth. I told him this was super important so the fiber wouldn't catch on the edge. I saw Vickie Howell make one with a CD on Knitty Gritty but I couldn't get the CD to be tight enough on the dowel so we did it this way. I am very very pleased with this and I had him make me two! Yippee! stay tuned!
1 oz camel down, 162yd heavy laceweight. Spun on a Bosworth 15g walnut spindle, plied on an Ashford Kiwi.
Wee, little Turkish spindle from Jenkins Woodworking. Pictures can't really show how small this spindle really is. It's so freaking cute and still spins perfectly.
Whorl: Holly
Shaft: Apple
Weight: 10 grams
Size: 6 cm wing span, shaft 8.5 cm long
Woodchuck support spindle and bowl in Bubinga, Morado Bosworth (1.28 oz), Forrester Granny in Padauk and Goncalo Alves (1.2 oz.), Purpleheart Bosworth (1.75 oz.)
newly sewn spindle cosy for my jenkins drop spindles. blogged: anastasiahandmade.blogspot.com/2012/06/sewing-for-utility...
If you have a Mac that runs OS 10.6 and want to make fractal images, FractalWorks is available for purchase.
Hooray! The spindle concept works (and looks very sweet) - available tomorrow 4.16.12 at www.chrisyates.net/store/puzz.html
Spindler Hall was built in 1940 as a women's dormitory. In the 1980s it was a fraternity house. Today it houses graduate students.
Walnut was chosen for the 11 3/4 inches long shaft of this elegant Tibetan support spindle. Dave has burn etched the canary wood whorl with his signature leaf motif. This supported spindle weights 47 grams.
The 2" square end of a rusty old crank type thing found on the beach near my home.
a cropped version of the larger image - for the group 'squared circle'