Yesterday and today I just continued spinning my heavenly black+yellow=green Tub of Joy from World of Wool, along with watching more of Tiny Fibre Studio’s Youtube channel.
I blundered into contact with Becks, who runs the channel, via the Facebook Tour de Fleece page, when I posted about my Shapwick Blaise wheel. She replied, as she has one that’s fully operational – she’s blogged about it, and uses it regularly in her videos. I think her spinning vibe jibes with my own – less interested in art yarns, more in breed-specific and/or purposeful spinning. Okay, I’m generalising from my knitting tastes to spinning, as I can’t really claim to be a spinner yet. Becks has a lovely calming manner and voice, although that can change when her felines overlords, Saffy and Dexter, commit cat-rocities during filming! She explains things in such a simple way, even if she’s demonstrating something that’s relatively new to her, that I feel like I could almost follow along. I’m not going to try just now because I’m concentrating on developing spinning “habit”, but I can see myself going back to specific videos on, say, spinning singles and treating them like a live workshop.
I’m having ideas about Peigín, my Rappard Wee Peggy wheel. Looking her over the other day, I can see a need for some serious TLC which will require a fair bit of research into woodworking, restoration, etc. Possibly enough to blog about, or otherwise document the process. I’ve also decided to set her up as a double drive wheel, rather than risk drilling holes into her for Scotch tensioning. I’ll then have Peigín as a double drive and the Ashford Traddy as a single drive. Not sure what to do with Blaise as she could do either, but I suspect that will take longer to sort out than Peigín.
And I have eyes on a vintage Shiels wheel…
Allons-y!
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