Spinning Wool Art

I did some changes to my website. I added some wonderful new deals also! woohoo! I have drop spindle kits and just drop spindles by themselves. So very exciting! I just love how the drop spindles turned out. They are painted red along the sides and then stained. They look antique. LOVE! Happy Spinning!

www.spinningwoolart.com

Sale on Merino Sock Yarn

I am having a sale on my merino superwash sock yarn. Woohoo! Will be extending it another week. Coming later today is a new product. I will be putting up crochet kits...Yay! Everything that you will need to start crocheting a project. Two skeins of yarn, crochet hook, a homemade bag and a crochet pattern that is easy enough for beginner and that the more advanced will enjoy.

 http://www.ebay.com/itm/281110097015?var=&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Want to learn how to spin your own yarn on a drop spindle? Check out my video below. Next week I will be listing drop spindle kits....super awesome!

http://youtu.be/3AbROfVKOEM

My ebay store!

Check out my yarn on ebay! So soft and yummy! New items coming soon! Don't let these disappear before you get some. Or go like my Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spinning-Wool-Art/570518339639935

Spinning wheel

Woohoo! I have my spinning wheel! I bought a Kromski prelude. I bought it for the price and that it looks like the old spinning wheels. It is made in Poland and shipped here to the dealers. I bought it and two days later I had my spinning wheel. I was very impressed that I received it that quickly. With my wheel I received a niddy noddy and some marino wool. Awesome! I know some of you are wondering what is a niddy noddy. This is a tool that a spinner will use to help set the twist in their yarn. It is also a tool to see how much yarn they have. The one I have is two yards long. So if you put fifty turns of yarn on the niddy noddy you will have one hundred yards. Did I say awesome before?!  As much I love my spinning wheel it was a pain to put together. Just because the instructions left a lot to be desired. Being a little stubborn and not wanting to let a machine get the best of me I finally got it. Thank The Lord for you tube and the Internet for the help! Getting down to learning to spin now! Woohoo! Ohhh this is harder than it looks. Eek! My yarn looked better on my drop spindle when I first started on it than this wheel.  So funny! Too many twists to not enough twists. Then some wool is easier to spin than others. My head is spinning while I learn to spin my own yarn! So much fun and I am totally excited! I am posting a picture with this blog. I am sorry for the quality of the picture since I just used my iphone. I hope you can see how bad my yarn looks. Let's see how much it improves in the next few weeks.  If there are spinners out there I am open to pointers. Happy spinning!

Spinning Gold!

I have found a new love! It is spinning! No, I’m not meaning spinning around and around but spinning lovely, scrumptious roving and making beautiful, gorgeous yarn out of it. I have been using a drop spindle to spin mine. I'm soon investing in a spinning wheel. Once I get some made up I will give you a link to an etsy store to purchase this lovely hand spun yarn. (With the Lord's help, of course) I will also tell more about drop spindles and spinning wheels later in other posts. I learned to crochet when I was young by my Grandma. I got away from it for a long time. Then my husband suffered a stroke in January 2012. To keep myself busy when I wasn't taking care of him I started to crochet again. I then bought myself a drop spindle and some roving. I didn't want to buy a lot of things until I knew for sure if it was something I wanted to do. Then I found out that yes, I did want to spin my own yarn. How thick or thin a yarn ends up being depends on the type of material you use. As you practice spinning you will get better at making your yarn come out smaller. Of course some people prefer to knit or crochet with bulker yarn and there are others that prefer the thinner. I love the unevenness that you find in the yarn when it is hand spun. It is like having the best of both worlds. It is wonderful to have the roving turn into beautiful yarn. I’m sure most of you have heard the story of Rupulstilskin and how he spun straw into gold. With what we are spinning it isn’t much better than the straw. It was dirty and smelly and then it is turned into this beautiful luscious yarn that ends up an equally beautiful garment.  I haven’t gotten into the raw wool yet. I will give itt a try though. The raw wool needs to be cleaned then carded before it can be spun. Of course this has just come off the animal so it has dirt, sticks and even poop in the wool. Not the fun part of spinning but I plan on giving it a whirl! Until next time happy spinning!