Oh dear, I am totally living in spinning and spindle world now. Check out these links: How to make a Cigar Box Charkha Make your own Great little Wheel from materials from your home supply store A tutorial on how to make a cotton spindle from a chop stick and a radish From African Crafts How to make your own supported spindle from Spindle City.com How to make and use a bead whorl spindle also from Spindle City From Hankering for Yarn blog , what she decided to use to spin her silk for a wedding shawl From Marnie speaks! Good Girl blog how to make a travel case for your spindle! The Joy of Handspinning , all kinds of good info. Evidently the origins of spinning fiber to make string or yarn are lost in time, traced back as far as the Upper Paleolithic era, which is over 20,000 years ago. How fitting that when spinning, we also get lost in time. I am just learning, slow and clumsy. Yet, while sitting in the living room, as my DH watches TV, reads or draws, I
I have yarn and a spinning wheel. Ready to handle anything as long as I have my fiber along for the ride. Contact me at: knittingdragonflies at gmail dot com A blog about knitting and spinning. I also have a link list to tutorials for knitting spinning and a free knitting patterns link list.