Spinning. If you can call it that.

Posted on September 30, 2015 | 13 Comments

I have avoided spinning for many years.  I have too many hobbies and commitments already.  Husband, house, horse, job(s) — spinning will have to be for my next life.  But a bit of drop spindling for fun?  Well, why not.  Hanging around with spinners and yarnie geniuses in Maine, I suddenly acquired a drop spindle on long-term loan, beautiful wool to spin, and a couple of teachers.

Sadly, my product didn’t measure up, being much less than the sum of its parts.

Sad yarn:

first try

No better:

jani's wool

I thought I might have sharp dressed dudes checking me out while I spun:

watching men

Instead, here’s me looking at my yarn.  (And I use the term yarn  loosely.)

spinning

This is no reflection on the team that tried to get me going.  Yarndude has offered to give me a lesson in exchange for teaching him how to make Yorkshire buttons.  He’ll be wholesaling product before I have something worth showing, I’m sure!

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13 responses to “Spinning. If you can call it that.”

  1. gale zucker (she shoots sheep shots) | September 30, 2015 at 4:05 am | Reply

    Love the illustrations! I suspect you’ll have it mastered (mistressed?) shortly.

  2. Yarndude | September 30, 2015 at 6:10 am | Reply

    Thanks for the shoutout! I guess I should get back to blogging now, huh?

  3. Just me, Moni | September 30, 2015 at 6:30 am | Reply

    Keep at it. Practice makes perfect and all that. My first “yarn” looked more like pregnant earth worms.

  4. Chris | September 30, 2015 at 12:45 pm | Reply

    No! You caved! Curse those spinners!! 😉

  5. Gale Bulkley | October 1, 2015 at 12:02 pm | Reply

    Thanks for making me giggle this morning.

  6. kmkat | October 4, 2015 at 9:26 pm | Reply

    I resist spinning for all those same reasons (except the job, but I still have more activities than time, it seems). And I have considered a drop spindle, too — but I continue to resist.

  7. Annie Cholewa | October 9, 2015 at 8:47 pm | Reply

    Brilliant illustrations here. If it’s any consolation my drop spindling is hopeless … I just can’t get the hang of it and I’ve been trying on and off for years.

  8. woolythymes | October 11, 2015 at 5:13 pm | Reply

    oh gosh…how many times I’ve tried spindling (of course, NEEDED to buy a few spindles, just because!!!). Not my most successful endeavor, I assure you!!!

  9. Jeanne | October 13, 2015 at 1:49 pm | Reply

    I must come down on the side of the resistance. Spinning, like Facebook, sounds like a fascinating occupation, but I suspect it would be so fascinating as to take up much of my already-skimpy time!

  10. hawthorn-livelovecraft | October 29, 2015 at 9:54 am | Reply

    Sounds like me! I chuckled reading this……may leave this particular skill for another day 🙂

  11. Soxanne | November 14, 2015 at 1:53 pm | Reply

    We were talking spinning last night … I resist because I think another expensive hobby could be my downfall 😉

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