My total spinning for Spin Together 2025.
8 ounces of plyed yarn. I did not check my mileage before washing.
1 ounce on a Navajo made bottom whorl spindle. My first spin on a bottom whorl spindle.
1/2 ounce on another bottom whorl spindle.
I do think that I like bottom whorl spindles.
Also after the yarn bath, my hand wash sink turned purple. The only thing that got the excess dye off was Comet Cleanser with bleach. Now I can wash an ecru linen shirt tomorrow.
For Spin Together 2025, I had originally planned to master the supported spindle spinning. My body however had very strong reservations on the subject. So today I did a major pivot and looked in my fiber stash and choose 2 color coordinated roving’s that I bought at my favorite Local Yarn Store, Grandma’s Spinning Wheel . By the way I am on the Grandma’s Spinning Wheel team for Spin Together 2025.
I switched to my Hansen mini pro e-spinner. Since I was not planning to use my e-spinner this week, I spent the morning finishing up some quick plying and skeined in the yarn off the bobbins. I do not have enough bobbins to cover unplanned projects. Of course the four skeins had to have a bath and are now drying in the garage. You can find Hansen Crafts at this link. I do love my Hansen e-spinner. One of the best things about it is that I can use it when I am in a flare up and can’t use my Louet Victoria or Lendrum DT. It’s the whole bit that I must rest as much as possible during a flare up. But as long as I am not treadling I can still spin.
I am a little over 1/3 of the way through my first roving. This is my spin from this afternoon.
The first day of Spin Together 2025 was today. I chose to challenge myself with learning to spin on a supported spindle. The first spindle I tried I did not get the knack of it. After an hour I changed spindles. Maybe I need a little more practice before I go to something like that again. So I picked up another spindle, yes, I brought several with me to spin in public day. This Spindle was made by a Navajo artist. It was a better spin experience for me. The spindle was more balanced and easier to use. I wish I could find his card because I’d like another one. Alas I am getting ahead of myself.
With the second spindle, I spun until my hands were too tired to work. I think I did a pretty good job on a brand new to me spindle. I was also trying out different fibers in 1 ounce fiber samples. The picture below shows about a quarter of an ounce of hand spun yarn. I think it will ply to a DK weight. I have a bunch of other spindles to try so once I get this spindle full, I will go to the next. I will put aside the ones that I’m finding difficult and then decide what to do with them. If they don’t work for me after several tries, it might be time to thin the herd again. I think I might have another spindle de stash.
I have so many projects that I want to work on: however, this little energizer bunny has run out of batteries. I spent the day resting.
That being said I decided to do something different for this year’s Spin Together event. A no pressure spinning project. I decided that I am going to finally tackle the supported spindle. I will gather my supported spindles in a basket and get a sampler of different fibers to try out. At least from a Navajo spinning class that I took several years ago, I already know that I will spin to the left which means putting everything on the right, I think. I will have to look that up.
