I made a fabulous discovery a little while ago whilst looking for information on my spinning wheel, a little upright Wendy from New Zealand made in the early seventies by Philip Poore. It has a rather limited range of ratios 7:1, 8:1 and 9:1 which has frustrated me in the past trying to spin laceweight. […]
Tag: Tools
I am under the weather, feeling sick and a little despondent. Time to look at some of the handmade treasures that have come my way over the last few weeks as I marked turning a little older. My Dad made this. It is a Wraps Per Inch measure. It even has a leather loop at […]
My folks found this in an op shop (charity shop). I just love it. It is a homemade Lazy Kate for holding bobbins of yarn singles ready for plying on a spinning wheel. You can see the holes where the uprights were placed originally, but it probably tipped in plying. So, the uprights were moved […]
While I wait to cast on…something, this is what I am doing of an evening. Spinning – on the lovely spindle I bought whilst in England from Ian at ITS Crafts/The Wood Emporium. It is made of bog oak from the fenland of East Anglia. The timber is over 5000 years old! A fine timber […]
