Well Gee Willy Wonka. Who’da thought? Not anyone who knows me, that’s for sure. Today I have begun actually spinning on a spinning wheel. That might not SOUND like such a big deal since I have been spinning and selling my art yarns for years, but I have always been a hand spindle spinner and have rather a huge collection of spindles at that and love them, but I have LONGED to spin on a wheel. I just never could get it. It was like higher math to me while with a spindle in my hand I felt like I had been BORN spinning and have spun hundreds of skeins of yarns, but, I have still longed to spin on a wheel (… and with the equivalent of about a dozen 18-wheelers full of fiber if’n I didn’t ding/dang/dong get goin’ on a wheel I would never get all this fiber spun in three lifetimes on a spindle…).
P.S. Just put a folder full of nearly 80 photos of a sampling of my fiber work up from 2010-11 on Facebook. You can visit the album here if you’d like to have a look-see!
It sounds like you have it all figured out! Life and spinning.
Good for you Maitri!
“God, help me to be a channel for your peace, love, light, hope and joy.”
You are all that, and more.
As for your wheel, one piece of advice that I discovered by chance but that totally changed my spinning, is to remember to keep the wheel oiled well. Oil it for every 30 minutes of spinning. I think some of the newer wheels it isn’t nearly as important but for the vintage wheels it is essential. Your spinning will literally just take off. You can use spinning wheel oil, sewing machine oil or do what I do, use motor oil for vehicles – I just refill or top off my little sewing machine oil holder when we have top off the oil in the car. Works like a charm!
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