Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Spinning my own yarn - I've taken the plunge

I am quite excited about this.  The temptation of the explorer pack from fibrecrafts.com was too much.  I've ordered one of these packs.

I am not sure how long it will take to arrive, but I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas right  now waiting for it to arrive.  I have to try and tame my excitement & realise that spinning is likely to be quite difficult to get the hang of.

I'm in two minds about finding fibrecrafts.com, its got such great stuff ... I could end up spending a fortune !!!

2 comments:

  1. please let me know how it goes, I could not get my spinning down and kind of gave up! stitchesbyjulie.etsy.com

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  2. I found this set of instructions

    http://www.handspinning.com/lollipops/spininst.htm

    And also these videos

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPUORvO-GZE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UOZoYJCQ2Q
    http://www.youtube.com/user/AlpacaDirect#p/u/7/-IoF6OtjY2E

    I am hoping with a combination of both I can get started - my first attempt resulted in a lot of fluff, some frustration & a sore toe where the spindle dropped on it ... Not the most encouraging beginning :)

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