Spinning fiber into yarn

[Hearingheart]

I love learning new skills so I took up the spinning wheel! Anyone else do fiber crafts or art?

It's very tactile (which I love) and relaxing. I've only had a few hours of practice but there has been significant improvement and I can't wait to make some cool yarn.

 

[Landon Caeli]

I love learning new skills so I took up the spinning wheel! Anyone else do fiber crafts or art?

It's very tactile (which I love) and relaxing. I've only had a few hours of practice but there has been significant improvement and I can't wait to make some cool yarn.

Where does one acquire a spinning wheel?

Are they expensive?

 

[Hearingheart]

Where does one acquire a spinning wheel?

Are they expensive?

They are pricey, but I'm sure you could get used ones. Right now I'm learning on a friends wheel. Not too far from me, there is a fiber co-op that rents wheels, so I guess that could be an option.

Google spinning wheel manufacturer, there are many brands and types of wheels. I'm still researching and learning.

 

[faroukfarouk]

I love learning new skills so I took up the spinning wheel! Anyone else do fiber crafts or art?

It's very tactile (which I love) and relaxing. I've only had a few hours of practice but there has been significant improvement and I can't wait to make some cool yarn.

Up here at Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto, Ontario there are various such crafts on display.

 

[Rescued One]

My oldest daughter acquired a spinning wheel this year. I didn't ask where she got it or how much it cost. She visited Scotland last June and bought or was given the spinning wheel when she came back. She knits a lot. Now she's learning to tat. And she works full-time.

 

[faroukfarouk]

My oldest daughter acquired a spinning wheel this year. I didn't ask where she got it or how much it cost. She visited Scotland last June and bought or was given the spinning wheel when she came back. She knits a lot. Now she's learning to tat. And she works full-time.

This is really good, to keep up the old crafts.

Sometimes at museum villages they have working craft shops, which is a really good way of keeping alive the old hand crafts and also at reminding and educating people of how things used to be done.

 

[faroukfarouk]

I love learning new skills so I took up the spinning wheel! Anyone else do fiber crafts or art?

It's very tactile (which I love) and relaxing. I've only had a few hours of practice but there has been significant improvement and I can't wait to make some cool yarn.

Yes, I can imagine like you say that it can be very relaxing.

 

[JacquelineDeane55]

I took a spinning class once but I stank at it! My yarn was all jumbled up. =\

 

[faroukfarouk]

I took a spinning class once but I stank at it! My yarn was all jumbled up. =\

It's an ancient craft well worth preserving!

 

[faroukfarouk]

PS: @Phoebe Ann You mention Scotland; in Scotland and Ireland there is a big emphasis on traditional crafts such as spinning.

 

[faroukfarouk]

Spinning a yarn can also mean something else...