Twiddly Fingers

I'm plagued with Twiddly Finger Syndrome. :) My mother had it, my dad had it for a while, most of my cousins have it. Little known outside my family, TFS is a disorder characterized by an incessant need to constantly do something -- ANYTHING -- with your fingers. Sometimes this takes the form of smoking, sometimes eating, in other cases nail-biting. Having learned to channel this compulsion, I now put hooks and needles in my fingers and make things most of my family members don't need or want.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Got my spindle!

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.

Monday, March 13, 2006

Spin spin spin!

This isn't a knitting entry, but I just decided I absolutely HAVE to learn to spin!

I went to the spin-in at Borders yesterday, and met some new ladies, and some I'd met at the last kint-in, and Chris showed me how to use a drop spindle, and I'm FASCINATED! I could watch them spin on their spinning wheels all day long.

I want a spinning wheel! Wah! But they're expensive. Mayhaps I'll start with the drop spindle...