#hand spindle

[astartears]

Spinning yarn in my downtime at work today! Very excited to get back into spinning, it's so meditative!

[talaraleya]

The kid made her first 10 m of yarn - using a hand spindle.

[leiyahime]

Tour de Fleece - day 07

As I said I am at my dad's atm so no wheel work. But we spent much time on the patio and i spun supported. And while watching a few documentaries with him i spun up all my fibre supply for my drop spindles.

I plan to put more on the drop spindles before plying. But I'm done for today.

Plan for tomorrow: not much spinning. I will go to thw next big city, I need a few things from the Asian supermarket. So let's see what's possible.

[ancestorsalive]

October 2023 Maramureş, 83 years of age by Vlad Dumitrescu, My Romania

[astartears]

What a cool variety of spinning tools! I have a basic drop spindle and a gorgeous wheel, but I will be one of these lovely hand spindles! ❤️❤️ 🧶🧵

Spindles from the spindle spinning class I attended at the Handspinning Seminar, so many cool sticks!

[gentlepetparenting]

Can't believe I just, like, made this

[comfortabletextiles]

Back on my spinning bullshit 😌

Using my new spindle from this year and the roving swords bought me last year :D

[spindle-and-nima]

Had a stasis scare with the boy (again) but 4cc of baby gas drops and 4 hours later he just really had to fart so he's ok now

[milkweedman]

Making some yarn for cat toys. This is some very lanolin-y and rough jacob that I think is perfect for my lanolin obsessed cat.

Roughly carded it (too much lanolin to card neatly, but who cares in this case). Spun into a thin singles on Geryon, my wheel. Then made a 2 ply bracelet with that and turned the ply bracelet into a 4 ply bracelet.

This is my favorite way to make 4 ply yarn now. One singles can be easily turned into 4 plies ready to spin this way. It isn't difficult to control, it only needs the one spindle/bobbin and your hand, and because it's not plied in between winding the bracelets it's not a cable ply, just a laid 4 ply.

Anyway, gonna give it a little wash just to bloom the yarn and then make cat toys and stuff them with catnip.

24 yards total of bulky weight. Should be just enough ?

[koniknits]

This summer I wanted to try clasped spinning with a distaff, but I didn't want to pay for international shipping couldn't find any spindles here in Belgium. So I made my own.

I could have used chopsticks. I could have gone to the hardware store. I did the fun thing and whittled them out of branches from the garden.

Some of them work pretty well, but I haven't been able to find a position yet that doesn't make my hand cramp, so I haven't gotten a lot of practise in. They're cute though.

[leiyahime]

Tour de fleece? In july?

My vacation starts on the 6th and I'll be at the Wollfest in Kassel on the 9th... soooo I guess my vacation starts with spinning and spinning and spinning and turning my fibre stash into a yarn stash! Creative vacation!

[makerandbean]

second round of experiments with catyarn, and i think spinning it fresh off the cat is definitely the way to go. much much easier - i suspect putting it in a tub and leaving it made it felt a little.

my current plan is to just spin whatever i brush off of her, as soon after i brush it off of her as possible, on my spindle. i’m having much more luck with a thin, consistent spin on the spindle (but that might just be because it’s fresh).

next things i want to test i think are a) whether spinning it fresh on a wheel is as easy and fine/consistent as on a spindle, b) whether you can wash it pre-spinning without it felting, and c) if there’s any way of processing it that doesn’t felt it (probably involving higher dpi carders or maybe heckles or something? or a diz? if anyone’s got experience processing angora, lmk as that’s the closest fibre to cat hair that i’ve found).

[disgruntled-lifeform]

I look at my chicken basket full of wool and envy my spindle

[zwierendezwam]

I made some clay spindle whorls!!!!!

VERY exited to see if they fit on the spindle stick i made and how they do at their job :)

[pastelispunx]

TdF day 2, I couldn't wait to spin something on my newly acquired, absolutely precious soot sprite spindle!