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Borrowing a Bosworth,

My first time using a drop spindle, I like it! Now to acquire my own!

Jonathan Bosworth Featherweight Spindle 15 g Apricot Whorl and 9” Bocote shaft

www.journeywheel.com/

Finished off at Opera in the Domain

made by Mark at Pumpkin Hill Farm

Dyed with natural dyes (logwood and brazilwood) before spinning. Spun on my resin daisies spindle, navajo plied on my Ashford Traditional wheel.

Greensleeves, 40 grams (1.4 oz) **$40**

Unknown woods, but there are two kinds. I think it is the Anne Boleyn model, which is redwood burl and bloodwood.

whorl: 2"

shaft: 7.5"

From left to righ

Bossie Mini 16 gr

Bossie Mini 14 gr

Spanish Peacock Pocket Tibetian

Spanish Peacock Midi Tibetian

Forester Akha Spindle from Carolina Homespun

Golding midi 1.6 gr

Spindle with first batch of Suessish top; Yellowheart Drop Spindle by The Dragonfly Workshop (whorl -2 7/8"; 2.1 ounces; 9 3/4" shaft)

this is what made our room the best room at the Gasthaus Platz in Luehnde. we had spindles, one for each! we could spin wool into yarn. schweeeeeet!

I bought this spindle at the 1st Great Basin Fiber Fair in 2006; maker unknown.

Peppermint Pastures pygora, class C (like Cashmere) on my Cascade Mountain spindle

Spanish Peacock 14" bubinga

what an amazing day! like many other people here on flickr, i too was nabbed by one of our lovely women in uniform (aka cop) about a month ago. this is certainly not a new occurance for me...in fact, i seem to have extremely bad luck when i comes to johnny law and speeding.

anyway, after dealing with my court hearing today...which i will be sure to explain further when i post my 365 pic for the day, i spent some time on a photo field trip...why not? i already had the day off anyway!! so, here are some of the fabulous treasures i found. :)

stay tuned...

"Spindle" at Cermak Plaza, Berwyn(?) IL outside of Chicago

Butchart Gardens, Central Saanich, Victoria BC

This is an English walnut spindle, about 30g I think. Made by my mother for Wildcraft, but pinched by me before it made it to the shop for 'testing'. I'm still testing it, and it looks as though trials will continue indefinitely. In other words, I'm not giving it up :)

Potentiometer spindle #3, showing through base casing. I need of a knob.

February 2012

For more on this, arduino stuff and other daft things see the "Making weird stuff" blog

The regular spindle, pink yarn again.

Spindle I made for one of my students who is moving to Peru for a year.

Left:

Buckeye Burl Whorl, 2 3/4''

Flamewood Shaft 10''

0.8 oz

Right:

Flamewood Whorl, 2 5/8''

Pernambuco Shaft 9 3/4''

1.3 oz

Michelle decides she'd be safer with Scott and Me.

I don't know if this is a spindle. It could be some sort af bobbin.

The soon to be removed "Spindle" in Berwyn, IL. Sadly they are going to tear this down (or at best case scenario - move it) so they can build a Walgreen's in it's place. The stupid thing is the strip mall this is in ALREADY has a Walgreens! They are moving out of the strip and want to build a new on in the lot.

Spanish Peacock Spalted Tamarind Turkish Spindle

Resin spindle with beach glass

Handpainted Falkland spun on a 1.1 oz Butterflygirldesigns spindle.

At first, I was afraid that the colours were way too bright and that there wasn't enough white to counterbalance that, but I quite like the yarn after all. The colour produced where the pink and grey meet is really nice.