Choose Your Tools! - Spinning Yarn For Beginners

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• JI

  @JillianEve · 4 years ago · pinned

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• VE

  @venite_makes_things · 4 years ago

  Thank you for this! Especially the caution at the end. I’ve been radicalised through YouTube from a acrylic crocheter to a natural dyes non-superwash knitter and now I have my first spindle. It’s extremely dangerous and I’d advise fellow crafters not to watch fiber vlogs without supervision. ;)

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• TR

  @tracysmith7935 · 4 years ago

  Just after graduating High School I went to an introduction to &quot;spinning&quot; class. I started spinning in &nbsp;1972 on a drop spindle using my poodle dogs&apos; clippings. The carders were my hair brushes for my poodle. My first wheel was an Ashford traditional. It came to me in parts and unfinished. I sanded it down, stained it, and assembled it all by myself. We have been pals ever since. I even taught my granddaughter how to spin on my Buddy and with my original drop spindle. <br>While living on the Navajo reservation I learned how to spin with a Navajo spindle and used that yarn to weave a small Navajo type rug.<br>You never know where your spinning &nbsp;will take you. Enjoy life.

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• AM

  @AmyzinglyAnn · 1 year ago

  &quot;Whatever is simple and accessible to you.&quot; <br><br>Girl, I love you, and this is only the fourth video of yours that I have watched. You are an incredible delight, and I can&apos;t wait to watch ALL of your videos.

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• HE

  @heatherbill1328 · 4 years ago

  I’ve been spindle spinning for about a year and finally ordered an e-spinner. I’m grateful that you mentioned the physicality of operating a treadle. I went with an e-spinner because I have a chronic hamstring issue and did not want that to suck the joy out of my spinning. You don’t find many people discussing injuries or disabilities when it comes to choosing a spinning wheel. 💗

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  @SusieFletcher-b8t · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m 82 years old and believe in keeping my brain alive by learning something new every year. Thank you for your optomistic and realistic approch to my hope to becomeing a spinner. I&apos;ll be watching all of your videos as I begin this new road.😄

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• LU

  @lunarpurl · 4 years ago

  The rabbit hole is deep and you fall in so fast!<br>Very shortly after I got my first spindle and a tiny handful of wool to start practicing with, three alpaca fleeces fell into my possession which sparked a whole other interest in fiber prep I didn’t know I needed. And now I’m working to convince my in-laws that the animals they want living on their land shouldn’t be horses and cows but sheep and alpacas. <br>Also trying to figure out if there’s any way I can quit my job and just become a herder and crafter as a profession. 😂

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• PA

  @paulinevandaele9352 · 1 year ago

  It’s really a rabbit hole. I&apos;m 22 and have always loved to knit, crochet, and felt. I also had two bunnies, but one died recently, and you can&apos;t keep a bunny alone—they need a friend to be healthy and happy. So now I&apos;m looking into getting an English Angora, and teaching myself to spin is the only thing left to connect those two things (bunnies and crafts). So it’s literally a rabbit hole for me! :) Thank you for al the very useful information!

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• NA

  @nataliehowe6213 · 4 years ago (edited)

  This is hilarious about the merino! I ordered a simple Etsy drop spindle beginners kit. I loved it and decided to order some lovely merino roving I had seen. It came yesterday, and immediately I was like “Wait. &nbsp;This is hard! &nbsp;Why won’t it pull into nice strands like the other stuff?” The roving is gorgeous so I will &nbsp;wait until my spinning improves, but I definitely have to agree with you.

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• AN

  @anonknitter · 4 years ago

  &quot;The rabbit hole is deep&quot; ...truer words were never spoken 🙃

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• MS

  @MsLadyhorse · 4 years ago

  I started with a crochet hook and my sheepdog&apos;s fur. I&apos;d brush a handful of fur off the dog, hook the end of the handful, twiddle the hook a few times around, draft, wrap, and repeat. That first bit of string 20 years ago became a pair of fingerless gloves that I still have and use. Life interfered, and I didn&apos;t really spin again until I got sick in 2015 and left a retail job. I built my first wheel from scrap wood, a bicycle wheel drive wheel, lawnmower wheel whorl, a rope spool, and a piece of copper pipe. I was given an alpaca fleece to play with, and went back to the hook and twiddle for a while, made a whorl from a chunk of firewood, figured out the drop without dropping it, and hello rabbit hole!! I found a CPW in June, and I now have at least 1000 yards of Targhee, a few hundred yards of merino/silk blend, and 5 churro fleeces to scour, because I learned to shear my neighbor&apos;s sheep this year.

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• EL

  @elliotteinhorn7277 · 4 years ago

  I really like how you emphasize that one doesn‘t need to spent much money and respect that some people justify can’t. <br>Btw I failed spinning with a spindle but it’s quite easy for me to use a spinning wheel although it‘s been expensive to get one. Sadly wheels aren’t easily accessible here, especially used ones.

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