got my new spinning wheel!!!!

**babetteq** · 02-01-2005, 09:26 AM

...and have had to order more wool because I've spun up my entire stash!!

I've made my first pair of handspun, handknitted socks that I felted...... they are gorgeous and warm.

The spinning takes a bit of a knack.... it goes much faster than a spindle eh? I had to untwist a bunch of twine so that it looked amore like yarn....

but it's coming along...

Very very fun.

**Julia Kimber** · 02-01-2005, 09:57 AM

Sounds great!

Julia

**PrairieRose** · 02-01-2005, 10:36 AM

Very interesting.....me thinks you have much more patience than I do.

**DaisyLady** · 02-01-2005, 07:25 PM

oooooooooh I am so jealous!! I have barely had time to work at spindle spinning which I might add I am also not very successful at so far.

Can you post a picture of the socks?

**blueknitter** · 02-02-2005, 11:58 AM

I'm jealous, too! I'd dearly love a wheel, though I am still working on my spindle when I have the time. I really need more practice, though.

**Katybird** · 02-02-2005, 01:47 PM

How fun! I bet the wheel looks great in your house too. I love the look of a spinning wheel. Enjoy your new wheel.

**Darlene** · 02-02-2005, 02:14 PM

how wonderful for you. Relax & enjoy.

**Early Bird** · 02-02-2005, 02:25 PM

You know, 200 years ago, if you had asked women, "Do you use your spinning wheel for fun?" They'd look at you like you were NUTS!

**DaisyLady** · 02-02-2005, 02:36 PM

I know a lot of people who would still think we are nuts to be so thrilled about spinning for fun! Course they don't know what they are missing do they... heehhhee

**kaykwilts** · 02-02-2005, 04:07 PM

My cousin brought a spinning wheel but barely used it. She also got a loom and didn't use it either.

**babetteq** · 02-03-2005, 02:27 PM

My cousin brought a spinning wheel but barely used it. She also got a loom and didn't use it either.

wow! I'm sure she could find a nice home for them on this board.... looking at prices in BC a new loom is several thousand dollars and a spinning wheel is several hundred.....

oooooooooh I am so jealous!! I have barely had time to work at spindle spinning which I might add I am also not very successful at so far.

I thought you might be jealous Daisy

really though, do the spindling first..... keep doing it until you can stand up, draft and spin at the same time..... I'm not kidding. The wheel works so much faster that I'm back to drafting all the fiber before I start spinning otherwise I get bloody slubs in it. Boy is it fun though. In one day I spun up 2lbs of wool. Now, abotu half of that will have to be recarded when my carder gets here because it's just not good enough to use (my practice wool!) But after that I've gotten better. My next project will be plying wool. I'm going to try to make some thin thin thin and then ply it. right now I"m just making a really thin sort of 'lopi' (any spinner out there know the language for this? I don't)

I still don't have my first pair of socks that I knitted out of store bought wool in november made into pictures yet!!! I just signed up to win a digital camera though... so if luck is with me...

It takes so long to get film developed.... there are faster ways... but they get pretty expensive if we use couriers and such...

You know, 200 years ago, if you had asked women, "Do you use your spinning wheel for fun?" They'd look at you like you were NUTS!

LOL! I was talking to my friend about that theother day.... about how everything you had to wear, you had to spin first!!! But a mother of 18 might say "no it's not for fun, but it IS the relaxing part of my day!!!!"

I figure if we had to spin and then weave or knit everything we wore everyone would own a big apron that they would have to wear at meals and in the summer I would make them go naked. Or make them something fashioned out of maple leaves....

babs

**babetteq** · 02-03-2005, 02:32 PM

watch your hair. A lock of my hair got sucked into the twist. It hurt. It was embarrasing. It would have made for scratchy socks. Don't do it.

babs

**Joan1969** · 02-14-2005, 04:31 PM

Hi everyone,

Just took my class on spinning on the spindle. I am really still having to work at it a lot. I have Lee Raven's Hands On Spinning, which I'm using to help in addition to the internet.

I bought myself a pretty little hand spindle which I like a lot. I really can't wait to get good at this so I can knit up the stuff I spin!

Plus, I'm trying to learn to knit socks! A lot to learn, but I really do love it all.

**DaisyLady** · 02-14-2005, 04:36 PM

My friend the master spinner has promised me a private lesson on spindle spinning. She wants to get me up to speed so that I can take her wheel spinning class in the spring

I have a ton of projects I absolutely must finish before I get too involved in the spinning!

**renmerc446** · 02-24-2005, 04:21 PM

Actually, the term "spinster" comes from the women who used to spin wool and flax. And due to the work involved, it was generally given as a chore to the young girls or any single female in a household. So to be called a "spinster" was to imply that a woman was still single.