Spinning weekend

And again it is Friday. What happened with the rest of the week? Last weekend I had Spinning classes and I had three students. I had a great day and so did they.
My three students all had a different goal. One had already participated in a Drop Spindle class a couple of months ago and another one wanted to learn how to spin on a Turkish spindle and the third one wanted to learn it all! As said, I had a great time.

We started of with a Handspinner and soon everyone had the hang of it and in the mean time I tried out the Turkish Spindle. What a pleasure and so convenient with Andean Plying.

Time flew by and in the end one was spinning on her own Turkish Spindle and the other two were spinning on a Spinning Wheel.
One on my Ashford Joy and another one on a Ashford Traveller

All very happy to have accomplished something.
I am already working on another class.

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Making my own tops

This is my second attempt on making my own tops and although the wool (felted Texel) was not that great, I managed to make a pretty nice tops of it on my new Ashford carding machine. Proud of myself and amazed that it is working. Maybe a new course?

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Spin in Public Day

Today has been Spin in Public Day.
I have been in the library of Arvika and I think it has been a very successful day. We were with 10 spinning people and we (mostly Chatarina and Maria) have been putting together an exhibition in the library with wool.
Now I am spinning at home to finish what I started. Here some picture of today:

Christina is concentrating hard

On my way home!!

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Spinning event

Last weekend I had my spinning weekend.
We had a great time with a lot of laughter.
Unfortunately my soup was not eatable and had to come up with something else.
The first to arrive was Rose-Marie and soon Marianne joined us as well.
I helped Gun getting her things from the car and she is only spinning from her Samoyeed dogs hair.
Not long after her Catarina and Louise joined the club.
This time we were with 5 women and hopefully next time we will be with a lot more.
Louise was not planning on spinning and we got her to try the spinning wheel in the end as well.
She began with a hand spinner and watched a movie on how to do it.
See how concentrated she is!

And it did not take long until we were spinning on wheels.
Louise is a bit hidden behind Catarina and everyone is spinning on an Ashford Joy.

Karin's spinning wheel (Ashford traditional) did arrive as well so I had to put it together so that Catarina could take it with her to Karin.

Unfortunately Bim was not able to come and I spun at here spinning wheel the Ashford traveller:

The special washing machine I bought in the Netherlands had to be tried out as well and the wool (Texel) came out a bit felted and Rose-Marie helped me by pulling out everything:

 Här sitter Marianne och spinner på sin Louet och ser desutom nöjd ut:

and did we had a good time!

The next pary will start on the 3th of november.
Everyone is welcome!

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