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Purpleheart and Turquoise Drop Spindle by Autumn Hollow Farm available at www.autumnhollowfarm.com or at www.etsy.com/shop/AutumnHollowFarm
This is interesting. The spindle is mounted on a plate that can rotate 90 degrees. So you can have a vertical mill, or... a horizontal mill. I had no idea...
I have never seen spindle fruit so heavily before! When the bright pink fruits open, they will reveal shocking bright orange seeds.
3 Bosworths, one Golding, a Fancy Kitty, a tahkli/acorn with wooden support bowl, a hand painted CD spindle and next to it, the boat anchor I learned to spin with. 8 August 2010.
My first spindle, bought at NY Sheep & Wool in 2007. Who knew that such a pretty little thing would begin a love affair with spinning and spindling? I didn't note the maker (wish I had) or the vendor. Can anyone identify it for me? I LOVE this spindle... she's my go-to more often than not.
ETA: It's a Phil Powell, bought from Janet Lynn at The Wheel Thing. Thanks for the ID, Habetrot!
Euonymous Europaeus
Common on chalky and limestone soils. Grey, smooth bark and small greeny flowers in summer that give way to pink fruits which, in turn, split to reveal an orange seed. Leaves turn red in autumn. Food plant of the Holly Blue butterfly. The tree has also been known as Prickwood, Skewerwood (due to being made into toothpicks) and Pincushion Shrub. The name euonymous associates the plant with Euonyme, who was the Mother of the Fairies. It is a favourite tree of robins, so much so that it is also known as Robins' bread.
Was traditionally used in spindles for looms. Charcoal was made from the young shoots and also used in making gunpowder. Pegs have also been made from the wood. The fruits (which are poisonous) yield a yellow dye when boiled in water, or green if boiled in alum.
Decoction of the fruit has been used to treat mange in horses and cattle. Contains a resin called euonymin, which stimulates appetite and the liver. The baked fruits were powdered and rubbed into hair as a remedy for headlice.
two new-old drop spindles. they're waiting for my final to be over on tuesday to be used! they're quite different than the other two i own.
FlyPaper Textures
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.
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
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.
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 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.