I love learning new things. These past two weekends may have started me on a new journey: spinning wool. A friend and fellow artist gifted me with two spinning wheels that she had inherited from her mother:
My husband is enjoying my requests for additional equipment, as it means he gets to use his lathe. This past week, he made me a nostepinne, for winding my wool into a centre-pull ball. Next up will hopefully be the niddy-noddy, so I can make skeins of freshly plied wool.
The one on the left appears to be a 1981 Ashford traditional. I'm not sure about the one on the right, but I believe it was refurbished in 1976.
I've had fun the past two weekends spinning up a bit of donated wool at the Prince George Fibre Arts Guild, with help and direction from a couple of the guild members. My first skein is a tad bumpy and uneven, but I love it anyway.
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