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viciousewe · 1 year

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It’s always morally correct to call out of work to spin wool.

#new spindle…..#another one of my white whale spindles too #it’s a mingoasho glass spin #oh! and also a claypidgeonpottery bowl!#I got it because I thought it would be the perfect spinning bowl and I was right~#it does clink a lot with the glass tip tho I have had to put a wooden bowl inside to stop that #support spinning #spinning #handmade #yarn #handspun #wool #spindle #spindle spinning

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bright-thehawksflight · 9 months

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You know at first I didn't believe it when fiber artists on tumblr would tell me to be wary of the fiber art slippery slope. And yet. I hear the siren call of the spindle. Fellow crafters help me resist. Tie me to the fucking mast. Please.

#fiber arts #crafts #craftblr #yarnblr #knitting #spinning #drop spindle #i can't start learning how to spin now i just can't #please i still live with my parents i have no storage space #it is the need for new stimuli #my enclosure is small but i yearn for enrichment #lisa says the things

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bookshelfdreams · 16 days

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sowing: I learned how to use a handspindle with a distaff recently (like you see in historical pictures) and it's SO easy, it's literally so easy, I never really got the hang of hand spindles before but this is so easy, the yarn almost spins itself, I could go through this entire 200g braid in 3 days, I could spin enough to make a whole garment!! Bow before me! I am the king and queen of fibre crafting!!!!

reaping: ouch my hand :(

#the way this works: you keep twisting the spindle with your right and also pull is away from the fibre #the left (at the distaff) controls the draft and twist #and that means the fingers of the right hand - particularly the index - have to constantly hold and turn the spindle #and THIS is new/unusual movement so when you do it nonstop for several days at some point your knuckles will be like #hey quick question? what the hell???#and because i am a responsible person who enjoys having functional hands i acknowledge the warning and let them rest a bit #but urgh this is no fun at all why do our joints get achy when we move them moving is literally what they are there for #anyway if youre reading this get yourself a distaff this instance i swear it will revolutionize your spinning game #handspinning #crafts

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milkweedman · 25 days

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was doing the math, and next january I'll have been crocheting 10 years, knitting 9, and spinning 6 years.

Crazy how time flies...

#i apparently mostly learn new skills in the dead of winter #the most upsetting part of this is I learnt knitting during the tail end of my senior year of high school #i cant believe its been that long but i also dont remember any of it and am glad i never have to go back #edit ive since done more math and my spinning estimate is definitely wrong #have to trawl thru more old emails to find the shipping order for my first spindle probably

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spindle-and-nima · 6 months

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scheming by the hay tower

#cooking up new crimes for sure #bunblr #bunnies of tumblr #spindle

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chiropteracupola · 2 months

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i will not post about incredibly specific research project &c &c &c

#news from the cupola #You See There's This One Singular Spindle Whorl They Found In A Grave...#even funnier because there is a person on this website (she is dear to me) who actually gets paid for working on this project #I on the other hand. did not get accepted to actually work on this for realsies.#just having thoughts about it in my room for free 🙃

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reblog-to-cast-on · 1 year

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okay poll time and sorry I only started spinning like a year ago so I don't know every kind of spindle, I included ones I know of and know some of the differences in how they spin. also I assume many people will have an answer that varies depending on what they spin and that's intentional because I want to read everyone's explanations in the tags about why they like what they use (especially if you prefer a supported spindle because they scare me and I want to know what people like about them :)

I know I have very few followers on the crafts sideblog so reblogs for more responses greatly appreciated

#personally I like a saxony wheel or a top whorl drop spindle #I know there's Reasons to use a bottom whorl spindle but I just don't like the way it feels as much as a top whorl #I got a new heavier top whorl spindle at the sheep and wool festival last weekend and it's sooooooo lovely #I don't spin anything particularly interesting or specialised though so what I use to spin doesn't really matter too much #hand spinning #fiber arts #poll

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humphreyhippo · 9 months

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20231222 - Drop Spindle - Early Days

#drop spindle #spindle #original photography #new hobby #52weeks2023

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deb79ful · 2 months

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Here's a lil' Joltik explorer to brighten your afternoon! His name's Spindle, and he comes from the same roleplay server that brought forth Ares the Marshadow and Abda the (formerly-) Durant. It's long-since stopped, but I adore all the characters that I wound up creating for them. Here, he's exploring a more familiar setting from the Pokemon Games: Chargestone Cave in Unova! Or possibly Chargestone Cavern in the Terarium, which is more in line with his desire to explore new locales. ...Oh? I've already shared a Spindle before? Yeah, that Spindle grew organically from this Spindle, like how Abda grew from a Durant character with the same name. Though there's another version of the him that serves as an intermediary between the two, which I might post at some point.

#digital art #new art #2024 art #pokemon #joltik #chargestone cave #spindle #Spindle the Joltik #deb79ful

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ebbpettier · 3 months

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WAIT I JUST SAW THAT YOU'RE IN THE SCA TOO! HI!!

YESSSSSSSS HELLO!

#I HOPE THR GIF DOESNT COME OFF AS TOO FORWARD BUT THIS IS A GOOD DAY #I haven’t been to a meet in like 6 months because the fighter practices I was attending are on a weeknight I’m usually workingggggg #and archery is Sunday mornings at like 5 am there’s no fucking way id get a Sunday off #HELLO COME AND BE WELCOME ETC #shamelessly plugs pictures of my new drop spindle

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affreca · 1 year

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Usually, I'm good about saving my work bonus, but I went on a shopping spree this year. One of the first things I bought was a new spindle. It's from KCL, and is one of their ones with swappable shafts. I'm spinning a scrap batt of random wools as a tester, though I'm surprised how much I love the colors.

#spinning yarn #hand spinning #new spindle

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nimblermortal · 2 months

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@kittydesade So my spinning ventures have come to a complete halt for the last month because I have created Abomination #2 on the drop spindle. Out of roving, all gone. I have some more, but I don't want to add it because the spindle is relatively full. So I need to take the yarn off the spindle, but if I do that it will untwist completely.

I asked Spinning Acquaintance how to do this and received these three links but 1) I don't know what any of these words mean 2) I don't have any of this equipment 3) if I take it off the spindle it will unspin how am I supposed to give it a bath it's just going to unspin I can't make it a skein because it will unspin much less tie it in multiple places it will unspin

so! Instead of trying any of these things, I have panicked and done nothing for the last month!

#spinning #fibercraft #help #I mean also it's a hideous abomination unfit for anything least of all plying #and I don't have another one to ply it with unless you want me to ply it with itself #which - PANIC because it will UNSPIN before I can get there #but I need to get it off so that I can create less abominable yarn #(for anyone new to this saga: Abomination No. 1 was released from the spindle and given to the cats #on the grounds that it would not be good for anything else #Abomination No. 2 is in marginally better shape at least at the tail end but still will not be good for anything)

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milkweedman · 3 days

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Made another spindle. It's very small. Also very irregular and lumpy due to the wood (I wanted the raised brown lines to stay and erred on the side of caution in how much I cut away...but that did lead to a very irregular spindle).

It also wanted to crumble as I carved, so pretty much all the fine tuning I just did by sanding it, which helps to compress the fibers down as well as remove material without crumbling or splintering.

It really came to life when I oiled it. Probably will be best after a few good coats and some time. My woodburning kit seems to be totally gone, which is a bummer. So I'm not woodburning anymore.

Spins well. Obviously being so tiny and light it was always going to be a fine spinning spindle, but effortless thread from an unprepped piece of fleece is pretty indicative as well. I seem to find myself carving mostly thread spindles at the moment. They're always so small and light in the hand, they remind me of holding baby birds.