I’m taking a spinning class!
Not the kind where you’re on bikes at the local gym in a big circle…
but the Rumplestiltskin, Sleeping Beauty kind of spinning.
They have let me take home the spinning wheel (a wooden single-treadle wheel, the Louet S10) and I purchased a big bag of wool that is going by waaaay too fast.
It’s so addictive watching the wool move through your fingers and turn into yarn! My first skein was the craziest-looking thing, rather frustrating–going from superfine thread that broke a million times and made me restart my spinning to giant dreadlocks and lumps that would jam up the works.
I’m working on my second one right now and things are going better. I still see curlicues of overtwisted yarn twisting up on themselves on the outsides of the bobbin, but my tension is much more even now; it looks like it’s mostly fingering weight, with some spots of DK.
My significant other, as soon as I told him about this, said, “Do NOT buy one of those things”–so of course I’m trying to figure out how to construct my own out of a child’s bike wheel.
I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT YARN.
Any other spinners out there?