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walnut Russian plying spindle, cherry/hickory Tibetan spindle, cherry Russian spindle (with cashmere), and cherry support bowl
After spinning yarn on a spinning wheel for close to 10 years now, I have never spun on a drop spindle. So I decided to pick one up at the LYS today and got some pink roving to give it a whirl. I'm hooked! Why didn't I spin on a drop spindle before? I'm waiting for my new kick wheel to arrive next week. Eeep!
Thanks to Pete's (Chickpeasrule) lovely image yesterday, I can now confidently say that this is Spindle (I had no idea, of course!). It's a deciduous tree native to the UK and Europe and I saw this one in the National Trust gardens at Sheffield Park.
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.
Plain Red Cedar whorl, Maple shaft.
1.2 oz
Fiber: 50/50 merino/silk hand-dyed from TheFiberDenn.etsy.com
Along with my husband's spindle that he made, here are the spindles that my seven year old son and ten year old daughter made for me. Talk about a special gift!
The CD spindle of the Tesla CD Turbine requires drilling 1/8 inch holes into the spindle to allow water or air to flow through. (3x8=24 holes total, plus one on the top of the spindle.)
I love the fruit and seeds on a spindle...I have an old groovy 60's top in the same colours...pink and orange ZAP!
This is just a first trial spinning yarn for my new lace scarf design. Tibetan spindle and support bowl, nostepinne.
my garden
taken on June 15 , 2007
PENTAX MZ-5 / smc PENTAX-FA 1:2.8 50mm MACRO / AGFA VISTA400(expired film 02/2007)
Got a new distaff from www.wildcraft.co.uk to match my wildcraft walnut spindle. Birthday gift from Karen.
Love this thing.
Hand spindle crank for 9x20 lathe showing some detail of the angled cut of the center drilled round stock.
Manually turning the lathe spindle for turning short sections of threads near a shoulder, where power threading may lead to a crash.
Shop-made project cold rolled steel and a cast aluminum handwheel locks into the spindle by carefully tightening the nut at the center of the handwheel.
I got the idea for this sort of locking joint when I recalled how my old bike handlebar stem was secured in the forks tube.
This native shrub prefers rich soils and is most common in ancient woods and hedges and chalk scrub. We saw lots on our trip to the Cotswolds!
Spindle gets it's name from one of the uses of the twigs- as the spindles used to spin raw wool (the wool is wrapped around the twig) . This is because the twigs are straight and smooth yet heavy. The twigs were also used for skewers, toothpicks, pegs and knitting needles (hence some of its other names). In the past the berries were used as a laxative or baked and powdered and used as a treatment for headlice
That's the spindle that got everything else started. It's the first spindle I've ever purchased and it came with a little bag of pastel colored wool.
It's probably made out of beech wood and weighs about 50 grams.
A spindle kate made out of tinker toys. The bottom needs more weight since it tended to move towards the bobbin winder as I was winding. It's a super fast way to get singles off a spindle and onto a bobbin while maintaining tension on the singles.
Brig. Gen. Mark Spindler, U.S. Army Military Police School commandant, and Command Sgt. Maj. John McNeirney, USAMPS regimental command sergeant major, induct retired Regimental Command Sgt. Maj. Jeffrey Butler 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
I love this spindle! My first one from The Spanish Peacock and it won't be the last! It has a little bit of Butterfly Girl Designs' Tuscany that tore off from another bit of spinning I was doing. The whorl is "flame" box alder and the shaft is bloodwood.
Whorl: 5"
Shaft: 10 1/4"
Weight: 1.1 oz