Hedgerow Harvest

Beautiful pink and orange seed of the spindle. This was growing in a hedgerow by the M11 motorway. The people whizzing by had no idea of the parallel world beside them.

Happy Valley

I didn't try this spindle, but I hear it's kinda tricky.

New spindle from The Threshing Barn

www.threshingbarn.com/

tiny spindle made of a bead and toothpick

Shaft: 4 1/4 inches long, Bloodwood

Whorl: 2 1/2 inches wide, dymondwood in color scheme Hazelnut

Weight: 0.6 oz

Euonymous

Pink on the outside, orange in the middle.

It started a little fat, didn't it?

1.57oz, diachroic glass inlay. Bought for $90, asking $75

Titanium Spindle for Crankbrothers Eggbeater from Ward - www.titaniumspindles.com 33g each one

The heart is still a little raised but my spider's a lot less angry.

At the National Arboretum at Westonbirt.

Euonymus europaeus (Spindle)

View On Black

As seen through my new sunglasses

Spindle Tree Flowers

will look better when there's more spindles in, of course, and I'll probably fill the cups with rice to help steady them.

My new spindle from Kundert Spindles. It is a fantastic little bit of engineering, weighing in at a smidge over one ounce (exactly 30 grams, to be precise). The whorl is cherry with bubinga overlay and yellowheart dots. The shaft is walnut.

In the background is a Politically Incorrect braid of Starter Wives Chevon, superwash merino, 4.2 ounces.

Lightly spinning pencil roving on my big applewood Ladakhi Skuru spindle which Ed made from a picture taken by Jo when she was visiting in Ladakh.

Day 14 Spinning for the Tour de Fleece

Illustration by Denis Carrier

made by Helen "Halla" Fleischer; fiber is cormo & silk

Link pins adjusted spindles ready to go.

short shaft; 1 oz.

Spindler & Klatt is a club in my hometown Berlin.

SONY DSC

A bottom whorl spindle and roving that I bought at the 2006 Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival.

2" Butternut Rosette 0.76oz

Euonymus alatus f. subtriflorus, Winged Spindle Tree, in early autumn

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Linum Fancy Light spindle by Tom Forrester

Canarywood whorl, cherry shaft

24.1 grams

Fiber: Pink Lady - Colonial Wool, Tencel Carded Fiber Batts from Fiber Monster fibermonster.etsy.com

summer of 2010, Riga, Oldt town

Cherry Drop Spindle Turned from a single block of Cherry. aprox 3" dia whorl over all length is12 "