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!
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.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.
chicagojcb
Level 7
Mar 20, 2018
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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.
farmboy2017
Level 7
Mar 16, 2018
2
No problem, not taken that way at all.
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.
farmboy2017
Level 7
Mar 16, 2018
3
I own and treasure that book.
@Spinliesel it was only after reading that book did I realize what some of the objects were that we saw in a book when I took an Olmec art history class in grad school years ago. Loom weights!
LOVE that book. I agree, everyone should read it. People take so much for granted now that they don't think about the endless work it took to keep families fed and clothed in the past.
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.
jacpod
Level 8
Mar 16, 2018
2
Yes, perfect. Aything that can be set to spinning and a smooth stick and a hook makes a very god spindle. Way to go.
this is interesting. wonder if I could make something like this in my wood shop. is a spindle just a beginner's tool?
hankster
Level 9
Mar 16, 2018
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Yes, to both questions. If uyou want to see what they could look like, google drop spindles, also Navajo spindles. I had to learn on a drop spindles before my teacher would let me buy a spinning wheel. It teaches the construction of yarn. It is good to know before setting off on a spinning wheel.
I like drop spindles as you can take them anywhere .
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