I couldn’t help it. I accidentally started spinning.
I’m weak.
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November 16th, 2006 at 8:56 am
Welcome to the obsession.
November 16th, 2006 at 9:21 am
Indeed. It only gets worse from here on out.
November 16th, 2006 at 9:56 am
you are doomed. I know spinners - there are those who say “I only drop spindle” - but you know they lust after wheels of all sorts - some even have small traveling spinning wheels they hide from friends and family; and spinning leads to carding, you know - before you know it you’ll by custom dyeing roving
November 16th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Or, you may just end up with twenty spindles and be totally in love with spindling. I mean, yeah, okay, I’ve got the wheels, but they don’t fit in my backpack
Try doing it in public. It’s enormously entertaining and leaves behind a trail of freakouts like nobody’s business.
November 16th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Trust me, nothings better than sitting in the window of your LYS with a spinning wheel (well maybe sitting on public transit with a spindle comes close). You can meet the oddest people that way.
Welcome to the addiction!
November 16th, 2006 at 10:48 am
Accidentally?
November 16th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
All of us at Rhinebeck pretty much knew you were going to start spinning eventually. Dude, this was destiny.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Ha! Funny, I have a pic that looks just like that…’cept my ‘yarn’ is red. I think it’s the bad influence we hang with :o)
November 16th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
It’s all right; it happens to the best of us. It’s sort of like manifest destiny for knitters.
November 16th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
You’re not weak. Just easy to influence.
November 16th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
…and then there comes the four bags of unwashed fleece, the 7 boxes of dyed roving, the sample boxes with roving from 20 different sheep breeds, the large spindle collection, the wheel….
Oh, wait a minute - that’s me I’m talking about.
November 16th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
A lot of people say, “welcome to the dark side,” when this happens. I have yet to find out why.
Welcome to the dark side!
November 16th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
Is there room for a sheep or maybe an alpaca or two in your backyard?
I’ll admit I was REALLY happy I didn’t win that spindle - I don’t have time for another hobby!
November 17th, 2006 at 10:31 am
Oh, wow! Your first yarn looks as bad as mine! Of course, you should see my best friend’s first yarn. She spun hair from her dog and it’s awful, but it’s string.
I promise it will get better. All it takes is practice, practice, practice.
You can make string from fluff! Go you!
November 18th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
“Accidentally” is the best way to start. Definitely.
November 18th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Oooops…
Once spun, never forgotten, then more fibre, more yarn, and of course more knitting. This is the cheapest way to produce good yarn, and certainly the most addictive
If you ever get a wheel check out the books by Mabel Ross, old now but excellent information that allows you to spin ANY weight of yarn easily. Yarn Barn in USA and PM Woolcraft in UK stock them and the DVD.
Welcome to crazy land! I especially like spindle spinning when waiting in a queue, it freaks out the natives almost as much as Scottish underarm knitting…snigger
Judy
November 19th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
’splain please, how it is possible to ‘accidentally’ start spinning ;o)
November 20th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Bwaahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.