Butterfly Girl Murano Glass Spindle

1.3 oz

Part of the Butterfly Girl Spindle/Fiber club

Day 206/365. Square porch spindles.

Belly Button Lint: Square Pegs

Whorl: Padauk & zebrawood

Shaft: Zebrawood, 7 1/2"

Weight: 0.95 g.

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

Hubby gave me roses for last Valentine with a vase. Knowing me, he knew I would use something for the vase for my hobby. He didn't think I'd use it for this. I thought this works wonderfully!

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

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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)

15 grams, standard Birch shaft

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.

portuguese spindles and one with a clay whorl and a distaff made from a branch of (I think) Rhamnus Frangula.

Made by Pumpkin Hill Farm

34 gm; 11 3/8"

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

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.

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

Acropolis Museum

As seen through my new sunglasses

Tom Golding rocks. Just sayin'.

Drop spindle workshop for beginners at knit nottingham

Photo by Dom Greves.

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.

Spindle & fiber together. Isn't this perfect?