Drop spindle. Here are very good instructions on how to make your own drop spindle. Just one piece of advice, though: expect to make fine yarn with this spindle, fingering to sock weight yarn, There is a direct correlation from weight of the spindle to the gauge of the yarn. These CD spindles make wonderful, inexpensive gifts for your fiber friends. Just add some instructions!

It's beautiful. And tempting. But If I add yet another yummy craft to the ones I already do, I'll never quite complete any projects. At least this, unlike weaving, doesn't take the addition of expensive equipment.

Maybe I should have said the work historically thought of as being women's work. This isn't a sexist comment or a sexist book.

I taught my classes how to make and use drop spindles. We used CDs. There's a book everyone should read. Women's Work: The First 20,000Years. Something like that. Talk s about how the work usually assigned to women developed.

I have a lightweight hand spindle but get more done with a chopsitck through an apple it needs reappling every time you use it but works well you just have to put a notch in the chopstick.