Category Archives: Spinning

Time’s up

Well, the auctions ended. 5 of the 6 things I had up for sale sold. I say that’s pretty good. I will be listing more in a day or so.

My friend Terrah sent me this article. It’s about a new spinning shop in Logan. Oh, Logan. Beautiful place. I love that town. When I grow up I want to live there forever. Anyway, I think I will stop by this new shop and try to peddle my wares. I mean, don’t you think the fact I graduated from Utah State University right there in town could be a selling point? I don’t know. I think it would be cool.

On another note, I have had a crazy week so far. I have been fully initiated into Relief Society President-hood. And though I could write all about it and make it sound pretty funny, that would be totally inappropriate. What I feel like I can say is this: Heavenly Father is in control. I have been guided and strengthened and able to do more in a day than I ever thought I could. He loves each of us perfectly and infinitely–and in this position it is my blessing to feel that and try to share it as I care for others. What a blessing!

Here’s what I did today

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I sold spindles and niddy-noddies at the Handspun-Handwoven show in Yellow Springs put on by the Miami Valley Weaver’s Guild. I had fun. Barry kept the kids all day and Logan even took a bottle.

What’s a niddy-noddy you say? This is a niddy-noddy:

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It’s a tool a spinner uses to measure yarn (on this niddy-noddy one full wrap equals 1 yard of yarn) and turn it into a nice neat skein.

You could also use one of my niddy-noddies as a nostepinne–a Norwegian tool for winding a center-pull ball:

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I just had a little card table booth. My spindles looked so pretty in their stand with their wool and books and packaging:

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On Monday I’ll start putting what I have left up for sale on eBay.

Stay tuned…

WELCOME SPINNERS!!

I think there will be a few people visiting here that I met at the Handspun-Handwoven show in Yellow Springs today. I will be posting pictures of spindles and niddy-noddy-nostepinnes shortly and I’ll link to their auctions on eBay. That’ll probably be on Monday the 22nd.

In the mean time, I realized there is no way to contact me up here, so here’s an e-mail address:

jessica (at) seedpodbooksandart (dot) com

(You can figure that out–I’m avoiding the evil spam-bots.)

I had a fun time. Those of you who bought spindles, e-mail me with updates on your spinning adventures!!

fluff to spin

This day I said I wanted to do an entry with a bunny and a pile of fluff, then some pictures of that fluff being spun. I plucked my bunny and took pictures all the while. I even started to spin the fluff off of my bunny, but the software for downloading photos is on Barry’s computer. That means that he has to be home so that I can download pictures on his computer and send them to this computer. Anyway, I got SOME of the pictures I wanted on this computer:

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Here’s me plucking Sally. I just grab some wool and pull. Comes out just like that. It takes me forever. I used to just sit on the couch with her on my lap, but a couple of my maternity shirts have holes chewed in the belly!! It is much easier on this table that Barry built!

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So, here’s all the fluff. It is like a big cloud. Can you tell how soft it feels from the picture?

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And now I’m starting to spin it. This is my first attempt spinning angora on my spinning wheel. It is much harder than sheep’s wool or alpaca. It has to be spun thin with a lot of twist in it to keep it from breaking and it is so slippery it takes some fancy finger work. It’s much easier for me to do it on a drop spindle, but that is a lot slower. I think I’m getting the hang of it though.

Anyway Mom, here are the pictures. They were never here, so that’s why you couldn’t find them.