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A friend gave David a couple of Santas many years ago that were painted on spindles salvaged from old woolen mills....a creative way to remember some local history.
i've been dreaming of spinning and staring longingly at my wheel and then looking at my foot with the pins and pain. no spinning. and then! yesterday i remember i brought my spindle up a few trips from cleveland ago, i pulled out some wool from the stash (dudleyspinner on ebay about two years ago)- already half prepped and ready to go. so i am spinning now. and i'm happy! yay!
One of my other loves is stained glass and particularly Tiffany Lamps. Armed with an Ashford Classic spindle, my copy of 'The Lamps of Tiffany' and some patience, and this is the result! (The flowers are from Tiffany's 'Clematis' design.)
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Dave has adorned the beautiful apricot whorl of this 11 1/2 inch Tibetan support spindle with his signature leaf motif. The shaft was crafted from pau ferro and the weight of this spindle is 49 grams.
I made a tip from copper to keep the tip sharp and speedy. The candleholder has a silicon flower glued to the bottom to keep it from sliding
This is the spindle I purchased and started spinning on. I spun three times on this (I count the whole batch of fiber as one yarn, considering how little a spindle can hold), before I did what I wanted to do in the first place, which was purchase a wheel, but felt it was too risky a purchase without having tried it out on a spindle first. I should have stuck with my gut! I sold this spindle since I never spun on it again once my wheel came in!
The startling pink and orange fruits are much more colourful than the pale green flowers. Native to Britain and the long straight shoots were used to make weavers spindles.
The completed singles for the Spindlers quarterly challenge. I think that there's about 150g worth there, and I'm reasonably sure that I'm going to meet the 180m yardage requirement.
French Style Spindle Replica by Spanish Peacock in front, GrippingYarn Russian Style spindle in back
Walnut, 12", 27 grams
Euonymous europaeus, a shrub of open woodland and hedges with small greenish flowers followed by these berries which split about now to reveal bright orange seeds. We have several in the garden hedge and they self seed readily .
Poisonous, leaves, bark and fruit.
This padded case with carrying strap was purchased at Dollarama for $3. It holds spindles, fibres and has 2 pockets which are the perfect size for spindle bowls.
Jan 09 2008 / 366
Day 9~
Reflecting on the incredible PATIENCE needed to spin wool. I am taking a class to learn all about the topic and last night we made our own hand spindles, carded some wool and tried our hand at spinning yarn.
This is my first drop spindle design! The 1.7 ounce spindle is great for spinning sport/DK weight yarns. Made of cut acrylic and oak, it's as much fun to watch the spindle as it is to create yarn.
Hand-carded cotton punis
A tiny sample 2-ply skein spun on an akha spindle. I found spinning singles on this spindle a bit difficult (spindle kept dropping!), but plying was pretty easy. Also, I hand-carded the cotton punis, which were a pure delight to spin. 9 yards light fingering weight. Cotton sliver from New World Textiles.
5/16/08
This is a New Spindle ( keyed style ) for the wide front on IH Farmall 560 656 706 806 856 1026 1206 1256 .
The start of the plying process. This is an enormous centre pull ball, this is certainly the biggest spindle project that I've ever done.