#support spindle

[thatdarncait]

Work in progress:

It's 50/50 baby camel/silk which is easily one of the softest things I have ever touched. Feels like kitten fur. Tragically the dyer I purchased it from seems to have lost their source so if anyone knows where I can get more please do lmk.

Side note I am terrible at winding on to Phang style spindles neatly, it would appear. This is not the first time I've had a major "jumped right off the end" issue.

[trashpandacraft]

it turns out it was too gross today to do much of anything, but i managed to start sampling for a shawl i'm thinking of making.

i bought and dyed some 70/30 bfl/silk a while ago, convincing myself that it would be nice and not incredibly annoying because it wouldn't be well blended, and then! it was incredibly annoying because it wasn't well blended! i hate those 'blends' that have a giant chunk of silk in them, and that's what must commercial blends are, so it was time to reblend.

very fluffy, very beautiful. i'm 90% pleased with how that blended up, and i think i can clear another 5% just by virtue of not being at the slightly raggedy end of the braid anymore.

i keep thinking that i'd like a faster spindle eventually, but maybe also i need a slightly less involved supervisor? very rude, sir.

as is often the case, i sort of struggled to spin thick enough that it's not sewing thread, but i think i got there. the goal is a two ply lace weight, and this feels fairly realistic. 🤞

i'd say i'll get it plied tomorrow, but tomorrow's meant to be five degrees warmer than today, so my current goal is to drink more powerade and nothing else

[ezekiellsplayground]

All but 3 of my regular working spindles are full, & I don’t have any more storage space to keep going. So every one now has to be pulled off & processed into skeins.

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Dude, why is Liam so photogenic like what???

[dangerphd]

That file is all three whorls and three shafts, but I have individual files for all three whorls, resizable and infillable to your heart's content, and they include spindle shafts for matchy matchy if you hate makerworld and just want to DM me your email.

[silly-jellyghoty]

Back to my spinning nonsense today

But since this turned out to be a touch too thin even as a 3ply, back to the square one with new, slightly thicker single.

One more chunk to spin to it tomorow, and then the chain ply. Hopefuly this time it will be of the correct weight for what i need.

[dannysev]

After seeing @orchardknit 's beautiful handmade supported spindles I decided I had to make my own! One thing led to another, and before long I realized maybe I could knit a wedding ring shawl with the alpaca fiber I had sitting around at home. Alas, this spindle is not a handwhittled creation because I only was able to go home for a brief period for Easter so modifying my cheap little homemade turkish spindle was faster, but once the semester ends I'm definitely trying my hand at the whittling!

This spindle didn't spin for very long at the beginning but it's getting better with more weight and better flicking technique! The spindle fills up so slowly with yarn this fine *pauses to measure wpi, loses count repeatedly* I think it's around 80 wpi though? Maybe more, my eyes were struggling.

*realizes I could have just marked out an inch long segment of the spindle shaft (bamboo kitchen skewer) and counted the wraps as I put them on to fill the inch segment*

I'm really enjoying the portability of spindling, I was able to pull out my little spindle and espresso cup spindle bowl while I was waiting around at my mock audition yesterday in studio class and I also cannot wait to spend some time in the sunshine spinning because we're having lovely weather this week!

I intend to make the Queen Susan Shawl, which is a lovely free pattern on ravelry with a great story behind it's creation, so 8 miles of singles, lovingly spun, here I come!

Edited to include hashtags bc I totally forgot those are a thing lmao

[milkweedman]

*makes a weird spindle but it doesn't fix me*

Was really off my game tonight with shaping I guess--just had a super hard time with it. Had to redo the tip four times (which makes it shorter each time) which is a record for me. But I am very pleased with the woodburning on this one. I went for organic looking vines. It's a lot more difficult when the surface is both curved and uneven, but still doable.

I'll probably try spinning some southdown on it, but I'd be surprised if it spun very well. So I might try to sell this to the local museum for their folk art exhibit instead. We'll see.

[cosmic-geologist]

experimenting with making my own rolags, they’re v messy but i’m pretty happy w the result. fiber is from the paradise fiber of the month box for december (aurora borealis theme)

[humphreyhippo]

20240229 - Rolag Update

First one spun up.

[thatdarncait]

Spinning some ancient fiber on a new to me support spindle. ❤

[chisaron]

finished my homespun vest! very warm and fitting for spring + cat-approved

[ezekiellsplayground]

I bought myself a rotating spindle stand from Kravelli on etsy to better store my spindle collection. Only my drop spindles don’t fit in it, so those will remain in the pebble filled jar.

[disgruntled-lifeform]

That lovely fibre I picked up at Woolstock taunts me no more.

[pigeon-feet]

v excited to see this plied

[silly-jellyghoty]

Aaand back to making yarn on my awful homemade support spindles. This little rainbow army is growing nicely so far

I still have some issues with the consistency, luckily the plying tends to even that out