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Let Me Spin You A Tale, or, Our Heroine Learns To Make Yarn
I’m taking spinning classes at the moment, through the local Guild of Spinners and Weavers. It’s four classes in total, each of around three hours on a Monday night, and my goodness it’s fun! I’ve been...
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Distractions
There’s a spare spinning-wheel bobbin on my desk that Emma just lent me because all mine are full…and now all I want to do is go home and spin! Must wait…
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Spinning part two: plying
This week at Spinning class we plied our strands of handspun into a two-ply yarn. And again, what fun! Having only been spinning for a week, I was a bit daunted by the prospect of plying so soon, but...
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Skeining
We had our fourth and last spinning class last night, and while that was a little sad, what we did was exciting. These classes are the most fun I’ve had in learning something for ages! After plying our...
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Happy spinning face
This is a photo our spinning teacher took of me on Monday night just after I’d skeined up my first ever attempts at spinning. I just wanted to share my big grin, how excited I was, despite the...
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Spinning adventures
I haven’t been spinning much lately, but this isn’t for lack of enthusiasm—merely lack of fibre and lack of time in which to spin. But I did manage to finish off that glorious purple merino I got at...
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Purrty
I’m going to what I like to think of as ‘Spinning Camp’ this weekend. Although I’m a beginner I thought it would be nice to have something pretty to play with, as a change from the white...
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Spinning Camp!
I had a wonderful weekend at Spinning Camp. A weekend in a quiet green valley outside town, with all meals laid on, and nothing to do except spin, knit, chat and relax. The weather even played nice for...
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New wheel
I almost forgot to tell you, but I bought a spinning wheel last week! It’s great to finally have my very own wheel. I wasn’t sorry to see the back of the Guild’s Ashford, heavy clunky thing that it...
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I’ve been rather busy
Spinning Knitting Dabbling in other crafts And travelling! And I promise to tell you all about it as soon as I’ve got a minute :)
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