#Spinning Wheel

[classic-art-favourites]

Old Woman Eating Porridge Near a Spinning Wheel in an Interior by Gerrit Dou, 1631-1635.

[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.

[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

[pastelispunx]

Now, I'm about to say something sacrilegious. I'm thinking of painting my Ashford Elizabeth.

Her stain job is slightly off and it Bugs me. I don't use her as much as I should and I want her to be a jaw dropper.

Now I'm debating doing a paint job similar to those below:

First from here and next from here.

Now unfortunately I love magnolia home colors, but I get Ace Hardware to match it on non magnolia bases so I don't pay those people.

Color for base of the wheel???? I'd also stencil it with folk designs. Put a lil Mokosh sigil on there too somewhere. Just to really make it mine.

Now the poll: am I crazy to paint something I paid 800 for? Or do I yolo it and paint it bc it is mine and it will spark joy?

[vintage-sweden]

Anna Forsvik, 1870-1957, Sweden.

[batbetbitbotbut]

Bought a new spinning wheel in a charity shop today

[frie-ice]

Screengrabs from the animated trailer for the Diasomnia Dorm from Disney’s Twisted Wonderland.

[nora-yoko]

[makerandbean]

finally freed from my thesis and so today is for spinning at some local gardens and Relaxing

[exercise-of-trust]

everyone clap and cheer for my beautiful daughter who has every disease 🥰 her name is þerindë because her wheel is made out of an embroidery hoop; she is entirely handmade and boy howdy does it show

a whole bunch of things have stopped working since i took that video last night and i'm not sure how much more wherewithal i have to keep messing with her, but i did manage to spin about two feet of something before then! so i'm showing her off a bit now, and if i can figure out what-all i fucked up maybe you'll see more of her in the future. some process and progress photos under the cut (not a tutorial. do not do this. i cannot sufficiently stress how bad of an idea this was and is*)

(*if you are going to do this and have questions not answered here i am always happy to answer them, inbox and dms are open etc, but like. i would strongly advise against it)

here's the hoop! it's about a foot across, with a groove carved out with a speedball. this ended up being way too shallow (who'd'a'thunk) so the final version is a lot deeper than what you're seeing here. the paint stirrers are held in with straight pins because i was worried regular nails would just crack the hoop lmao. my girl is so deeply and profoundly scuffed <3

the flyer is made from three cedar shingles glued together because i didn't have a solid piece of wood large enough. astonishingly nothing broke while i was sawing out the rough shape and it whittled down pretty nicely! the hooks are scrap 2mm copper wire, the orfice is a couple inches of plastic drinking straw, and the pulley wheel is also hand-carved, which is why it looks like a fucked-up oreo and has the weird hitch at the top of the spin that you probably saw in the video 🙃 frankly i am astonished it works as well as it does

the wheel frame is. man. the axle supports haven't broken yet but frankly it's a miracle they're still in place with how much strain they're under every time. the original base was that weird little bit of paint stirrer, which (shocker) did not work out in the long run; it's been replaced by an offcut from the frame and is significantly more sturdy now. it's surprisingly level, though, and turns pretty smoothly all things considered!

the frame was a nightmare start to finish; i've never done any serious woodworking before in my life and the whole thing was just kind of slapped together without a plan or any sort of concrete measurement. it wobbles so fucking bad and every few hours i have to push a couple of the parts back together where the nails are sort of drifting out of the wood. you may observe a weird post sticking out the left side of the mother-of-all; that is supposed to be for scotch tensioning. does it actually do that? sort of! the belt is a length of cotton crochet thread that is, after much fiddling, just the right size to not slip out more than once every three minutes.

treadling was another pain to figure out and i think i probably made it way more complicated than it needed to be. it still doesn't work very well and i can't tell if that's something i can fix hardware-wise or if i just have to suck it up and practice a lot more. turns out feet are not as coordinated as hands! i would say "now i know for next time!" but frankly i am never doing this again. you couldn't pay me. speaking of which, i did the math and at my current pre-tax hourly salary i could've bought two brand-new ashford travelers with the number of hours i spent building my awful rickety daughter. at the end of the day, do i love her? immensely. is she "good"? by no stretch of the imagination.

anyway. this was a terrible use of my time <3 but i do finally feel confident enough in all the parts of a spinning wheel and what they're for that i can brave the dangers of facebook marketplace's "spinning wheel" category without getting too badly scammed! which is pretty valuable in its own right, i guess.

[comfortabletextiles]

Btw, habe I ever told you about this absolut Mad Lad (so affectionate, I live him, his work is INCREDIBLE)

That builds absolute bonkers spinning wheel by hand?

https://www.wollwolff.de/wollspindeln_liste.php?kategorie=5

It's completely in German, and if you scroll down you'll see one that can be folded into a suitcase. I want that one SO BAD

It has a grip on my since FOREVER

Also one of the all metal ones? Perfection

[amymon-arachne]

Finally replaced the drive band on my spinning wheel. It’s running SO smoothly now.

Rainbow drive band!

[tyrhinosaurus]

Finally got a finished skein, my first 4 ply!

Finished hopefully in time to still make it to the show I'm submitting it to, wish me luck and speedy postal service 🤞

Whole process from fleece to skein!!

Have heaps of wool left still, going to have a lot of finished skeins to work with :)

[shiftythrifting]

Live out your Sleeping Beauty dreams with a working spinning wheel for only $40!

[vintage-ukraine]

Spinning wheel from Poltava Region, early XXth century

[disgruntled-lifeform]

I went out to a thrift store yesterday and it was a TDF miracle that led me to find this little Louët wheel, NiddyNoddy and (not pictured here because it is in deep freeze for an abundance of safety) a single hand carder for only $100 CAD!