Eastside Spinners, not on the eastside
March 10th, 2008 at 9:05 pm (spinning)
I have been busy ignoring my fiscal tax preparation responsibilities. This is one of the activities I went to; spinning! It was a slow trickle of attendees, but once we got going; we had quite a few people there. That’s my wheel you can see with nobody sitting at it. (Although not anymore, because Marie, in the purple, bought it the very next day).
I now own this:
Which I’m actually quite excited to get my kids onto and spinning! The single treadle might be a bit more challenging for them; but I really didn’t want this in a double treadle so I could sit at any angle to it. It’s simpler than the matchless, and much less fussy (I hope). I think they will do OK with it. So far they are content to sit and treadle for 5 mins (they fight over whose turn it is). Spinners in the making!
You can see I’ve already almost filled a bobbin with it. I got a pound of coopworth Ashford roving as a ‘gift’ with the wheel. The color is pretty; but there’s a lot of VM and neps and junk in it. I’m spinning it long draw, very quickly, just to get the feel for how the wheel behaves.
Marta said,
March 12th, 2008 at 6:34 am
ooooh! purdy! We could have our own spinning group - just us and our kids! fun! (like all those exclamation points?)