Spinning……..
One of my favorite activities!  I meet weekly with a group of spinners near my home, where we produce marvelous yarns, teach others to spin, and gab about fiber and life.   Contact our spinning group

My most-used wheel, an old Louet S75, accompanies me to my weekly Tuesday spinning group.  I also have a  Jensen Tina II, a double-treadle Canadian production wheel, an antique walking wheel, and a very small antique parlor *sweetheart* wheel with a heart-shaped table that my husband and I rescued from an antique shop in Straasbourg, France.

After a visit to the wheel collection at the Textile Museum (now in Lowell, Ma), where we photographed several similar wheels, I sent the little wheel and photos to Ron Anthoine, in OR, who did a wonderful job of restoring it, even making a part to replace the missing flyer.  I had thought it would be a pretty little conversation-piece, but to my surprise it is also a really functional wheel, and fun to use.

Just finished--a 2ply yarn from Easter egg dyed rovings

I soaked wool roving in a vinegar solution, squeezed out most of the water, then draped 2 continuous sections, about 3 yds
total, into plastic cups of leftover dye, and left them overnight.  In the morning there were still some undyed sections between the cups (I had thought there would be more bleeding), so I shifted the rovings and left them for the day. The results were good, so I spun a singles yarn, about 16 wpi.  Since there was no purple in this colorway,  I decided to ply the singles with a raw silk that color and am happy with the result.  About 200 yds.

These pages last updated June 29, 2010