As an extreme nerd of the Bronze Ages, I have a particular love for the Minoans! So of course I had to make a drop spindle inspired by Minoan Linear B! This taste of history can be found here! www.woolabull.com/products/59 #Dropspinning #Minoan #LinearB #WoolaBull
Well I woke up to a list of fiber tools the rats needed, so here is their little crochet hooks and drop spindles drying! #Amigurumi #Dropspinning #Crochet #WoolaBull
These rolags hide a wild secret when shown under a blacklight! I blended silk, merino, nylon, and ostrich feathers into this beautiful white blend. The ostrich feathers glow under a blacklight, so you get to really see the madness hidden within! #dropspinning #rolags #fiberrave
I take advantage to dry my drop spindles outside after waxing when the wind is not roaring down the canyon! They always look like little UFO's when just hanging there. These handmade drop spindles can be found here www.woolabull.com/products/59 #dropspinning #dropspindle #handmade #WoolaBull
Trying to drop spin in the dark is made infinitely easier with a blacklight! #dropspinning #blacklightfiber #fiberrave #WoolaBull
Come take a walk and spin with me! #dropspinning #woolabull
I'll be teaching classes in crank-spinning with a stick, and then the Mayan Paddle Spinner. I'm making them with cardstock layers for the students. A wildcat is the school mascot.
#Crankspinning teaches the basics before #dropspinning
#handspinning
Forgot my tags #handspun #dropspinning
A Basque drop spindle partially loaded with a lavender colored bamboo/flax blend with a part of the source rollage shown.
Playing with my new spindle. My first Basque spindle and it spins like a dream. #handspun #dropspinning
Two singles of Jacob's yarn and an empty spindle, waiting to ply
The spindle very heavily wound with plied Jacob's - a little messy but fairly even
The Jacob's wound off onto a niddy-noddy! It looks delicious.
Finally finished up the Jacob's fleece sample I've been spinning - this was a lovely test for me, chunkier than I'd usually spin and I would love to work with more! Wonder what to do with it... #yarnsky #knitsky #dropspinning #spinsky
Green and blue tencel with some pink sari silk shown on drop spindle
Skein of blue and green tencel yarn with pops of pink sari silk.
Completed this sample. About 26 grams of tencel (with a little bit of silk) made 46 yards of 2 ply dk yarn. #handspun #dropspinning
Last night's spin didn't get me all the way through the last rollag from this sample. #handspun #dropspinning
It looks like a fiber tornado becoming yarn. 😳 so cool.
Green and blue tencel with pops of pink sari silk on drop spindle
Spun the second rolag for this sample yesterday #handspun #dropspinning
Green and blue tencel with bits of pink sari silk spun into a fingering weight single shown on a drop spindle.
Last night's spin of a sample. #handspinning #handspun #dropspinning
Ratty and unevenly-sized rolags of mixed fleece which, despite their unevenness, have a very nice blend and have caught together well.
A lovely mixed brown and cream yarn spun fine onto a pleasing wooden drop spindle
Today's spinning! My rolags spin much better than they look - they're comprised of "the random fleece I found at the bottom of various fleece storage bags". Trying to tidy up my stash a bit before opening fresh bags... #yarnsky #dropspinning
Blue mulberry silk on a drop spindle
Some meeting #dropspinning today. #handspun
Thinking I may try the other half of this 4 oz (probably 1 oz of which are on this spindle) to compare the differences of the feel of silk on the wheel.
Two wooden bobbins wound fat with Suffolk fleece-spun yarn!
Forgot to post my finished #tourdefleece spindles! Well, yarn, anyway, it needs a couple of days of rest before I ply. I got pretty much all of the Suffolk done, will see how this plies up and possibly use the last little bit for a blend.
#dropspinning #spinsky #yarnsky
Spending the last days of #tourdefleece working on that amazing mulberry silk. Not thrilled with my consistency, but as my first silk, it's not terrible.
#dropspinning #handspun
Mini-Skein of purple, blue, and pink yarn on white background.
Today's #dropspinning was another sample. This one wasn't my favorite, but it's pretty. 8 yards of fingering/sport weight.
#tourdefleece
Skein of black cotton/white silk blend lace weight yarn on tan background
Finished that cotton/silk blend sample. About 6 grams got me 25.5 yards of laceweight.
#tourdefleece
#dropspinning
Black and white variegated single on drop spindle. Pictured over a rolag of the same black and white cotton/silk blend on a white background
Today's #tourdefleece is this cotton/silk blend sample. I finished 3 out of 6 grams so far. Slow, but steady, I guess. #dropspinning
Mix of greens of Sari silk spun up on a drop spindle
Took an involuntary rest day for #tourdefleece yesterday due to migraine, but today I finished #dropspinning that green sari silk.
My hand holding a well-wound dropspindle of single ply off-white Suffolk yarn
One Back to the Future trilogy's worth of dropspun Suffolk - given how rough my rolags have been I'm pleased with the look of this! Another couple of hours and I'll be ready for my first #tourdefleece2025 ply!
#tourdefleece #dropspinning #yarnsky
A slightly-wound dropspindle in my hand, resting on a lovely soft colourful stripey IKEA blanket. A stack of poorly-rolled creamy Suffolk fleece rolags are falling into view from the right-hand side of the photo.
Morning #tourdefleece people! How goes it? Hoping to get a fair bit done today, trying to maintain my pace and just get through the prepped Suffolk asap. #dropspindlespinning #yarnsky #dropspinning
Drop spindle filled with blue/purple bamboo laying on a White spindle partly filled with that same bamboo all in a white background
From left to right: Blue/purple bamboo on a drop spindle, lavender viscose top, navy flax top.
Milestone achieved!!! 6 oz of bamboo #handspun by #dropspinning This has been months of work, finished tonight during #tourdefleece. It's destined to be a three ply with these two other fibers.
Bright blue and purple bamboo on a drop spindle on a white background
Day 11 #tourdefleece is yet more #dropspinning on my large project. Empties the spindle onto the bobbin and kept on. So close to the end of this 6 oz (out of 18).
Day 10 #tourdefleece is more #dropspinning on my large project. I managed to add quite a bit to this spindle.
