#Spinning Wheel

[hermit-home]

I picked up an Ashford Country Spinner recently for chunky yarns and decided she needed a personal touch!

I’ve named her Ava.

She currently has 15 warbler species and a Hermit Thrush completed, but I’ll be adding more on other surfaces little by little! I went with a heavily simplified, pretty stylized style and I’m loving how it’s turning out.

The next few I’m working on are all 4 species of North American nuthatches on each side corner

[caves-crafts]

everybody look at my cat in my lap as i was spinning

he had never done that before!!!! he just sat on my lap and fell asleep!!!

Fun fact! I drove 3 hours with my mom to get this spinning wheel. I have absolutely no idea how old she is but she was hand made by someones uncle. I call her Oma since that's whats etched into the lazy Kate that I also got from the nice old lady who sold it to me.

[spindleanddye]

Forest vibes 🌲🌳

[shannonpurdyjones]

I have a goal this year to spin enough yarn to knit a sweater entirely from my homespun.

I decided to use my box of hand me down grey and brown roving wool. Unknown age, but the address on the box is typewritten.

It still spins up very nicely though 😊. I'm using my (also of unknown age) Ashford wheel rather than hand spinning to speed the process along.

First 235ish yards down, about a thousand to go lol

[vintage-sweden]

Anna Forsvik, 1870-1957, Sweden.

[cucumber-of-doom]

She is finally done :D

Between weather, work and initially buying the wrong supplies ( don't be like me, know the difference between wood glaze and varnish) getting the wheel set up took way longer than expected but now I am quite proud of the outcome.

She is an Ashford Traveller 3 if anyone is interested :3

[eddon-the-spider]

Handspinning is very calming to me. Keeping steady time with the treadles and drafting fiber between my fingers makes the world fall away, and like the song says, I drift away.🧶

[pastelispunx]

I think I've officially settled on Lenka, suggested by @phallicthimble ! The name means light and is of Czech/Slovak origin.

We've uncovered that my family is from that strange nexus between countries where the Carpathian Mountains are. So this feels especially fitting!

MILF (man, I love fiber)

[disgruntled-lifeform]

So at the seminar, I got to try this really interesting 4 person spinning wheel.

It required 4 people treadling at the same time to get it going and was very unwilling to cooperate but we got it going!

[batbetbitbotbut]

Bought a new spinning wheel in a charity shop today

[lil-leviathan]

Lots of thought went into the decision but I got the Ashford wheel today! I also started (and will probably finish) spinning this braid:

It's the colorway Grapevine from Knitting My Way Home. 50% Merino, 25% silk, 25% flax. The deep rich green, teal and purple are gorgeous and contrasted so well by the pale lavender/seafoam sections.

However, the flax is annoying. Even with a TON of prep (I spent all last evening splitting and pre-drafting to try and distribute it) it's still spinning up in crusty-feeling clumps. I'll trust the process and see how i feel in the end.

I'm doing a fractal 3-ply and trying to get the hang of the wheel! I had to replace the brake band from cotton to monofilament because some of the bobbins were rougher than others, but that was easy enough.

Here's the first 2 plies. Will probably show off the finished yarn by evening's end!

[seagullvoidscream]

From single to finished yarn! I feel in love with this merino fiber years ago at a fiber festival and just recently got around to spin it with work and grad school.

1. Singles pictured with another spin

2. Chain plied resting on the bobbin

3. Before finishing

4 & 5. Finished yarn; soaked, snapped, and thwacked

[leiyahime]

washed some yarns

Yes, I've been slow the past few months. But yesterday I finished a few yarns. But yesterday the weather was nice and I had the day off soooo bathing time for the yarns!

Top left: 100% superfine merino from filzrausch. I giess I'll combine it with the more turquoise yarn I've spun some time last year in a project

Top right: 40%sheep (Falkland and Merino), 20% Llama, 20% eri silk, 20% baby camel in the colourway Lava from Frau wöllfchen

And 200g Rambouillet from stefiswolle

Idk what to do with the yarns yet lol

[spindleanddye]

Energized, freshly spun single VS. Rested single:

This is why even though Im impatient Im trying to let my singles rest before plying 😅

[notquitebilateral]

New wheel acquired!

No date or maker for this one, but it was 20$ and is happy to be spinning.