Blog entries tagged Spindle

Finishing Up and Getting Started

Shelley — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:56:39 +0100

This is left over from some yarn I spun last spring when I was borrowing Erin's Ashford Traditional. When I plied I was left with a whole bunch of singles on one bobbin that just sort of sat around until I gave her wheel back a couple of weeks ago. I figured Erin would want her bobbin so I wound the singles off into a centre-pull ball and it sat on my sewing table for a few days. Eventu...

Spinning Thread

Shelley — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:56:55 +0100

I started a new project on my lace spindle last night. I have a largish piece of hand-dyed merino top left over from the felting class I took in December. It is the rest of a piece I used to make a scarf in the class. The scarf is very sheer and I decided it would be kind of neat to knit a lace scarf out of the same wool - a sort of a study in the different textures that can be ...

First Product

Shelley — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:15:08 +0100

This is the first product off my very own spindle. What began as a piece of nice grey roving is now a silvery two-ply. I think I might make this into a wrist distaff to help me with my next spinning project.

Weight: aprox. 10g
Length: aprox. 11m

New Toys

Shelley — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:31:59 +0100

These arrived in the mail yesterday but I was too busy playing with them to bother taking pictures and blogging. I ordered these through Three Bags Full in Vancouver last week and was not expecting them until Friday at the earliest. It was so exciting to discover that there was a box waiting for me when I got home yesterday.

I am the proud owner of two beauti...