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Many years ago Bob and I talked about raising sheep so we would have a mountain of lovely fiber to spin, something I have wanted to do since I was a little girl and read Rumpelstiltskin for the first time.\u00a0 When I met Elsie McCarthy at Wing\u2019s Market in East Thetford one day two years ago and she invited me to come knit with her on Thursdays, I had no idea the turn my fiber passage would take.<\/p>\n
As we sat knitting with a group of very nice people we talked of many things.\u00a0 When I said I was interested in spinning, she gave me a handmade drop spindle and showed me how to use it.\u00a0 I was a terrible failure at using it.\u00a0 I got out the drop spindle that Brother Bob Scotland had made for me many many years ago, along with a bag of fiber Sister Virginia Scotland had given me.\u00a0 I was a terrible failure at that, too.\u00a0 So, if the free stuff didn\u2019t work, surely if I spent money, then I could do it.\u00a0 Helloyarn.com seemed the perfect place, since I had visited a yarn shop in Massachusetts who recommended helloyarn…and I purchased a new drop spindle and a pound of merino fiber.\u00a0 Still a failure.<\/p>\n
Soon Elsie offered to loan me her Ashford Traveller spinning wheel, and her husband, Larry, put it immediately into the back seat of our Camry.\u00a0 I was so thrilled with the wheel and the bags of fiber Elsie gave me to try my hand at spinning on a wheel.\u00a0 It did not start off very well, but now, nearly a year later, I am beginning to spin more successfully…still not well, mind you, but better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many years ago Bob and I talked about raising sheep so we would have a mountain of lovely fiber to spin, something I have wanted to do since I was a little girl and read Rumpelstiltskin for the first time.\u00a0 When I met Elsie McCarthy at Wing\u2019s Market in East Thetford one day two years … Continue reading “THE BEGINNING OF SPINNING (WOOL FIBER!)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}