My drop spindle spinning kit came in the mail Friday, and I played with it over the weekend some. Bevin gave me some beautiful wool roving to play with, so I have (right now) a very lumpy length of teal-colored wool yarn. I'm loving it!
The drop spindle isn't hard to use; my problem seems to be the "drafting" of fibers to get a consistent width of yarn. But I'm not worried about it -- I keep hearing people say it just takes practice. The library had several books on spinning, an a video on using a spinning wheel. I don't think I'm in much of a hurry to actual buy one now, though. I kind of like the simplicity of the drop spindle.
I'm taking the whole kit with me to Atlanta (and probably a knitting project or two as well) so I might get something accomplished in the 13 hours on the road.
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