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walnut Russian plying spindle, cherry/hickory Tibetan spindle, cherry Russian spindle (with cashmere), and cherry support bowl
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.
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!
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
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.)
Left spindle is 0.6 oz golding spindle Antiqued Rosette II
Right spindle is 1.0 oz spindlewood co
Fiber is Ashland Bay Colonial in Northern Lights color.
Plan to spin 3 ply fingering weight out of 5oz.
Total fiber purchased price was $10.29 in year 2011.
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.
Euonymus europaeus forma albus, Spindle Tree, in fruit in November
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my garden
taken on June 15 , 2007
PENTAX MZ-5 / smc PENTAX-FA 1:2.8 50mm MACRO / AGFA VISTA400(expired film 02/2007)
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.
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.
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.
Yellow Spindle Coral (Clavulinopsis fusiformis) a/k/a Golden Spindles. With Aphelaria tuberosa (white). Portola Redwoods State Park. San Mateo Co., Calif.
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
Lizzie got an old Robin Hood 3 speed from Craigslist a couple of days ago. In adjusting its Sturmey-Archer, I happened to pull out the indicator spindle. It looks like someone bent the chain against its direction of motion.
This mangled link was hidden from normal view. If it had snapped, the spindle & rod would have been pulled into the hub and a much more involved fix would have been required.