Posts filed under “Spinning”

Spinning Question

For my first skein of yarn from my spinning wheel I would have to say I did pretty well. Although not great, as you can see. I think my problem was I spinned the singles to much. So next time I am going to try not to do that. If anyone knows if this weird [...]

Yarn

Here is a picture of the last skein to be spun from my spindle. It has now gone into retirement since I have my spinning wheel now.

Fixed

My spinning wheel is fixed! Well, as much as it can be fixed. I have some pictures of some wool I spun up. It took me a little bit to get used to spinning on a wheel. It goes much faster then a drop spindle. But once I got used to it, I started to [...]

Fixing

A while back I bought an old used spinning wheel off of ebay for really cheap. The catch was it needed to be fixed. So that is what I have been up to lately, fixing it. I decided to fix the wheel first since it is in the worst shape. The outer circle of the [...]