New spindle from The Threshing Barn

www.threshingbarn.com/

Running Moon stone spindle with PVC carrier

One of the few times it appeared they like each other.

Fourth Place

Learning how to use my tibetan spindle. The spindle is gorgeous! It's a Tibetan Lite spindle with spindle bowl from Grizzly Mountain Arts. The fiber on the spindle is Ashland Bay Merino in Pine. It's been sitting around awhile so it became my test subject for learning. :)

First spin on this spindle, as yet to be named

Butterfly Girl Murano Glass Spindle

1.3 oz

Part of the Butterfly Girl Spindle/Fiber club

the replacement left and right spindle adapters next to the original and mangled Brunton spindle adapter. Note how shaved down the "bump" already is after round two of fighting with lower shock mount clearance issues.

Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki

Whorl: Padauk & zebrawood

Shaft: Zebrawood, 7 1/2"

Weight: 0.95 g.

Purchased from Hatchtown Farms at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, May 2005.

Dave has crafted this lovely Russian support spindle from birdseye maple. He has inlayed the spindle with turquoise accents. This Russian support spindle measures 11 1/2 inches in length, and weights 52g (1.9 ounces). The matching lap bowl measures 6 1/2 inches in height, and is 2 3/4 in diameter.

Part of a "Needle and Spindle" sculpture installation by Cliff Garten, representing the area's former textile factories. ArtWalk, Rochester, NY.

A shrub with loose sprays of four-petalled, greenish flowers on green twigs in May and June. The tight clusters of small flower buds are obvious from early spring.

A custom order carved whorl spindle for Kellie Belle from Ravelry

laceweight yarn, made by me, roving by greenwood fiberworks (etsy.com) spindle by Katescauldron (etsy.com)

Wildflowers on scrawny stalks.

12 gram Lilac Kuchulu with Kingwood Shaft. It spins like a dream! The fiber on it was a sample included with the spindle, targhee wool (mountain top) from sweetgrasswool. Yummy stuff to spin.

Closeup of sock yarn.

I think I spun what is on the spindle about a year and a half ago, just after I got back from Knitter's Connection (2007). I had taken a class on spinning with Shannon Oakey and done some of it there, then some of it when I got home. My interest in spinning is still going strong, but I was having problems with my shoulder and the drop spindle, so I put it aside.

This year, I really want to get a spinning wheel and my interest in spinning is only getting stronger (resistance is futile!!). So, I pulled this out today and am going to try it again!

Textile Cap Spinner

Oliver Lane, Kalamazoo

Original one of a kind spindle from Quantum Spindles Braided design by Wendy Meyer, spindle created by Matt Meyer.

The husband and wife team make drop spindles for a range of hand spinners, spindle collectors, and fiber arts students.

Spindle spun Icelandic wool

Spindle

This is one of the best spindles in the Forest. It is growing with a much larger hawthorn tree. The spindle has actually protected the hawthorn, because all around, the hawthorns have been victims of a chainsaw massacre. I guess the management left this one alone because of the spindle

Some of the very few flowers left on the Spindle tree in Oak Park Carlow.

Spindle lying on the Uhaul seat.

spindle:

cocobolo whorl, ebony shaft

0.75 oz (21 g)

fiber:

Fiber Optic hand dyed pencil roving

75% superwash merino/25% nylon

bag:

Lantern Moon

Sock Summit 2009

8-7-09

Large Turkish weighing 36g, in African Padauk with African Blackwood shaft (length 7 3/4".)

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.

Dave has burn-etched his signature leaf motif around this 2 inch diameter holly whorl. He has crafted the 7 3/4 inch shaft from purpleheart, and has added a brass hook to the top. The weight of this beautiful handspinning tool is 0.8 ounces.

Jenkins Agean Turkish Spindle, Birdseye Olive, 0.63 oz, 18 g

Acropolis Museum

#spindletree #autumn

As seen through my new sunglasses

Tom Golding rocks. Just sayin'.