My Spirited Spindle

My apologies for having just disappeared; some stuff came up, mainly needing to study for a math placement exam next month...and it's be...

Over a week without a post ... Okay, so Joseph's Skein was worth a lot of posts, I think:) But I didn't stop spinning... In fact, l...

Phew, what a week... it's the end of the quarter, and I'm ready for a break! So I can spin, of course. So here is the finished pro...

Having never spun much more than an ounce at a time on my spindles, I encountered an interesting situation that I'd read about somewhere...

So in my last post I said that I was going to spin up the remaining roving from the sample variegated yarn I made last weekend ... and that...

I've spent the last week drawn to my spindle, and now spindles, rather than writing ... so let's catch up! First, on Saturday I star...

You can do many wonderful things with a spindle-spun single. Singles make some of the most beautiful yarns, and they tend to be the most ey...

So last week I said that February and March were all about spinning cotton in anticipation for my cotton-dyeing class coming up in April... ...

When I was first reading about spindle spinning and the different types of spindles, something that caught my eye was the Turkish Spindle. ...

Making my own spindles has been rewarding to me in several ways. First, because I get to say I made it myself:) And then come the other ad...

So I've done it! I set up on Etsy this afternoon, and now I have an online yarn shop. You can visit me on Etsy at TheSpiritedSpindle.et...

So this is what is on my spirited spindle today... For February and March 2011, cotton is the fiber to spin! Actually, cotton is what I int...

So I can't adequately blog about spinning without posting some pictures ... so, here's a taste of what I've done with my spindle...

I've already told you that I love spindle spinning, so here are a few of the reasons why... First, I love seeing things transform. And ...

Hello everyone. My name is Tonya, and I'm addicted to fiber crafts. I started thinking about spinning over the summer of 2010, and fina...