I find this spindle fruit endlessly fascinating.

I find this spindle fruit endlessly fascinating.

Kundert Spindle

Maple inlaid with Makore, Walnut and Purpleheart in a Kundert signature design

1.4 oz, with a 3-3/8” whorl and 8-1/2" shaft

Coopworth/Alpaca roving in Madder

Part of this week's Tour de Fleece work. This is a blend of merino/alpaca and silk that I blended on my drum carder. I have two other shades of turquise to finish, then it'll make a 3-ply sock yarn.

Bottom spindle and new top spindle. Two plied balls of wool done on the top spindle. Third one on the bottom spindle.

There is one roving left to do.

This is a spindle for a project I will post to Thingiverse after I return from a business trip to Japan.

Illustrations I did for spindle magazine

The challenge I set myself was to spin for 10 minutes each day for the week. This is what I did on Day 1.

Blue-Faced Leicester

for thegeorg on Ravelry's spinning challenge of 4/3-4/10

The Happy Family

VCC Alternate Tuesday Shoot: Heritage Acres

10/21/07

Spun on the Miss Lucy P's Che-Chen Dichroic Glass Spindle-- 10/22/07

Unknown wool. It came with the Miss Lucy P’s Che-chen Dichroic Glass Spindle.

43.0 yards (39.3 m) sport weight

eBay spindle seller: Miss Lucy P's

Spindle filling up with CHF Midnight Orchid

Day 11

handturned tulipwood support spindle

This large spindle was brought to us for repairs. BIG repairs.

Trindle

9gms, redwood shaft

Use strong converging lines in a photograph today. It's your choice whether or not to show the vanishing point.

nr. Markland Grips

Wood: Cherry

Weight: 41 grams

This was my Christmas present to myself- a 28g banded oak burr spindle made by IST Crafts. It spins really well and is beautifully made. The tuft of fibre is some really soft I've been spinning in a sort of longdraw style for fluffiness.

Yarn I spun on the spindle Brown made for me. Wool, 128 yards, 2.25 oz.

Has a bit more yellow and purple than shows here. Will probably be a small pair of fingerless gloves.

Jenkins Lark Turkish spindle made of Lilac wood. Weighs .81 oz.

Wood: Satin Rubain

This is my first supported spindle. Yarn is superwash merino from Lorna's.

baandek.org

This small, and mostly inconspicuous, tree or shrub produces bright reddish-pink, lobed, poisonous fruits in the autumn. The fruit capsules eventually split open to reveal a bright orange seed.

Oliver Lane, Kalamazoo

Wood: Satin Rubain

Dragon Spindle (Made by Yorkieslave on etsy.com)

Dragon Spindle (Made by Yorkieslave on etsy.com)

Spindle

A budding spindle tree on Jesus Green

A wonderful high-contrast photo with a orange-red spindle berry bush in the foreground and a nice green meadow in the background.

Ein wunderschönes, kontrastreiches Foto mit einem orangeroten Spindelstrauch/Pfaffenhütchen im Vordergrund und einer grünen Wiese im Hintergrund.

Left - Kundert Walnut whorl, maple and purpleheart; center - Ashfort student; right - Butterfly Girl Designs ultra-light millefiori

Made from electric fence ceramic insulators and dowels.

spindle tree avebury uk

Wormy Butternut over Red Cedar with Walnut shaft

1.2 oz

Fiber: 50/50 merino/silk hand-dyed from TheFiberDenn.etsy.com

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.

Spindles

Russian spindle weighing 32g. Pretty sure this isn't holly as described - I think instead it's maple as there's some evidence of birds eye.