6 posts tagged “wheel”
This will be another of those monster posts where I haven't posted for ages, and I throw it all out in one post :-) Actually, not quite all: there's a spinning-and-knitting FO that I haven't photographed yet, and a knitting WIP that has a half-written separate post, so I'll save its pictures to go with that. But in the meantime...
I haven't done illusion knitting before, and it's lots of fun, but it's suffering from new spinning energy, of which more later.
To the right are my lovely, lovely new Harmony wooden interchangeable needles, a Christmas gift from partner-R. The yarn in the bag is a clue to the half-written-post WIP I mentioned above.
The bottom pic is a spinning WIP, and I'm still getting better every time, so this is thinner and more even than the above. I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do with it, but I might ply it with some light-ish grey I haven't yet spun
And finally, the piece de resistance! At a party at Bopeep's place on Christmas Eve, one of her neighbours offered to give me a spinning wheel. I half thought she was joking or drunk, but it turns out she wasn't :-) The bobbin is my first attempt at wheel spinning. Not very even yet, but much better than my first attempts at spindle spinning.
And of particular note is that I took the wheel home about 6.30 this evening, covered with dust, and in many different bits (the parts visible in the picture were eight pieces, I think), and with only help from a guide to the parts of a spinning wheel from Joy of Handspinning, I worked out how to put it together and get it working. It's lovely. I don't precisely have room for it, but even partner-R admits it was fate :-)