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milkweedman · 1 month

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Finally saw my stuff in the folk art exhibit ! It opened a while ago, I've just been very busy. Still can't believe I got paid for this lol. And that they displayed the milkweed seeds I gave them !

Some other stuff I really loved ! Was fun, went with my partner and will go again next week with my mom, so I'll get to look at the exhibits again. Mine is like. Front and center, was not expecting that at all.

#mine #spinning #natural dyeing #whittling #spindle making #woodburning #crochet

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dannysev · 1 year

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After seeing @orchardknit 's beautiful handmade supported spindles I decided I had to make my own! One thing led to another, and before long I realized maybe I could knit a wedding ring shawl with the alpaca fiber I had sitting around at home. Alas, this spindle is not a handwhittled creation because I only was able to go home for a brief period for Easter so modifying my cheap little homemade turkish spindle was faster, but once the semester ends I'm definitely trying my hand at the whittling!

This spindle didn't spin for very long at the beginning but it's getting better with more weight and better flicking technique! The spindle fills up so slowly with yarn this fine *pauses to measure wpi, loses count repeatedly* I think it's around 80 wpi though? Maybe more, my eyes were struggling.

*realizes I could have just marked out an inch long segment of the spindle shaft (bamboo kitchen skewer) and counted the wraps as I put them on to fill the inch segment*

I'm really enjoying the portability of spindling, I was able to pull out my little spindle and espresso cup spindle bowl while I was waiting around at my mock audition yesterday in studio class and I also cannot wait to spend some time in the sunshine spinning because we're having lovely weather this week!

I intend to make the Queen Susan Shawl, which is a lovely free pattern on ravelry with a great story behind it's creation, so 8 miles of singles, lovingly spun, here I come!

Edited to include hashtags bc I totally forgot those are a thing lmao

#support spindle #hand spinning #Cobweb yarn #Spindle making #I don't know what I'm doing but I'm having a great time

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ezekiellsplayground · 5 months

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I fell into a pattern of simply filling up spindles over the last few months. So here’s the 100s of meters of thread that needs to be de-spindled, plyed, & finished.

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padawansuggest · 4 months

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You know you into yarn when you have headcanons about what spindles characters would particularly like, what they prefer to do with the yarn, what type of wheel spinner they are, and who has 17 projects going on at once (Anakin) vs who’s gonna focus almost entirely on one project as they go through thought spindle spinning a fine yarn, plying and washing enough of it for a blanket, immediately sticking it on the loom, and weaving a particularly intricate pattern (Obi-Wan) vs who’s the ‘I add the knots of silk and locks so that I can live in the moment and let chunks come out when they need to’ (as if I even have to say it, it’s Qui-Gon)-

ANYWAYS. I actually love yarn and think that yarn craft should be more in fics but that’s sorta like how lots of chefs and bakers make a lot of foodie fics like it’s nice but. Everyone eats. Not enough people care about Scottish spindles. Obi-Wan has 7 Scottish spindles and like 8 Turkish ones so he can make a blanket’s worth of yarn in a single go without having to unwind them and ply right away. Qui-Gon likes supported spindles and a traditional wheel. Anakin designs and makes his own electric spinners, electric yarn counters, and electric cone winders. And then he knits Padme shawls. Qui-Gon crochets blankets and keeps leaving them in the creche or outside random apartments in the temple. Obi-Wan weaves. Anakin spent 5 hours learning how to dye fiber in Padme’s favorite colours, made an electric wool carder to make batts of them, spent a solid 15 hours spinning enough for a massive shawl in lace weight yarn for his wife, knit her one, and then went back to his ADHD project hopping.

I have ideas!!!!!!

#star wars #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #qui gon jinn #yes I have ideas for others but these ones come to me fast #Obi also has drop spindles and he carves his own tools if he suddenly needs one lol #but his fave are Scottish spindles and turks #Qui gon refuses to make yarn that is evenly uniform that’s just bullshit to him #Anakin made an ombré lace shawl in the exactl colour scheme of Padme’s dress on Naboo on the balcony #she’s so obsessed with it she adores it #Qui gon crochets with hooks that don’t have a size because he carved them out of a wonky twig and it’s served him for the past 15 years #Qui is the tweed master if he needs to make it the same SIZE but it’s gonna be full of pops of silk and chunks #spinning yarn #yarn spinning #yarn headcanons

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caffeine-mooncat · 13 days

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Ply-on-the-fly is so fun. I am not immune to instant yarn :))

#hand spinning #drop spindle #the murder weapon in sleeping beauty #my phone camera only makes really bad pictures but what can you do

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spindle-and-nima · 2 months

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This is 100% the cutest sleeping pose

#tiny scrunch plus his front paws are folded so polite #10/10 #baby boy #i make fun of his silly self but hes the cutest in the world #bunblr #bunnies of tumblr #spindle

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disgruntled-lifeform · 2 months

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It isn't the magical spindle holder of my dreama but for a toonie, this is a nice pouch

#I can only fit my cheapo spindle inside so I may have to make some modification to the exterior so I can slot in instead #of putting the spindle inside the pouch itself #doubles as a belt which is handy #drop spindle #hand spinning #craftblr #wool #yarn #fibre

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toxictoxicities · 9 months

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Ahhh!!! Baby grew! Baby gonna be so big! So proud of baby!

Not quite yet-

#QNA #emergence #rw #rain world au #UI #Emergence UI #unparalleled innocence #bub #baby #scavenger #h e i s g r o w i n g #don't worry he gets the spindles just has a jacket on #bc UI would make him a lil jacket #ofc she would-#ToxArt

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milkweedman · 3 months

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[Image descriptions:

Image 1: a stick sitting next to a whittling knife. They are approximately the same length.

Image 2: the stick has been whittled to a spindle shape. It is now maybe 3/4 the length of the knife. There are some wood shavings on the ground next to them.

Image 3: same as the second image but the spindle has been turned to display a side that is mottled gray from Spalding.

Image 4: same as before, but the spindle has been turned to the last side, showing knots in the spindle.

End image descriptions]

Carved this spindle after work today. Found the stick on the street last month, no idea what kind it is. It is partially rotted and has a lot of spalting. Looks nice but it was hard to carve.

#spindle making #whittling #supported spindle #gave myself a terrible blister carving this

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akhuna · 27 days

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About 11(!) years ago, when I was very new to spinning, I bought Merino fiber in red, green, brown and black. A bit of it got spun up and I don't know where it is, but I've been spinning up the rest of the black merino and started on the brown. I'm going to ply them together, I think.

#spinning #spindles #Akhuna makes yarn #fibre arts #fiber arts

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ezekiellsplayground · 5 months

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WoW fibre advent Day 18. Today’s blend is a beautiful fawn eider & wool.

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gooddogbestfriend · 2 months

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15 Days of FatT: Day Three, Wheel

"When you get there, you see the cart that you were escorting slowly being rolled away."

This yarn is about long fingers that entangle wheels and steal carts.

Wool; mohair. Bouclé with pigtails in the binding strand.

#15daysoffatt #friends at the table #hand spinning #spent a couple hours on this for maybe two yards?#bouclé is a labor of love on a spindle #had to use my feet to make it lmao #15 days of fatt

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sierpentas · 10 months

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spindle-and-nima · 4 months

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My sister keeps turning spindle into awful stickers

#look how she jailed my boy #he makes a good cowboy tho good for him #yee haw and all that #bunblr #bunnies of tumblr #spindle

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ciriceart · 7 months

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Made a big weird thing of yarn with a drop spindle and a collection of miscellaneous fibers and tiny pieces of scrap yarn harvested from the crafting rooms and supply closets of friends. There’s some wild textures and color combinations in there and I plan to make even more and then have one of my friends attempt to knit with it. I can’t wait to see how much it sucks and in which ways.

#‘sucks’ being a positive thing #yarn making #drop spindle #fiber art #fiber crafts #yarn spinning

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sincerely-sofie · 23 days

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More funny art of OCs and Whatnottery. Now divided into sections for extra clarity!

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