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Spindle Spinning Workshop
Today I went to a spindle spinning workshop in the new workshop space at baa ram ewe - and I had a wonderful time.
The couple who taught the workshop, Peter and Carol, were brilliant - so friendly and excellent teachers. We did top whorl spinning, which isn't what I have tried before, and while I am still interested in low whorl spinning from a Regia point of view, there is nothing to stop me using top whorl for the fancy 'inauthentic' fibres I have - and learning more is seldom a bad thing :)
I can convert one of my spindles back to top whorl, and so have 2 of each (for now, of course learning this way opens me up to even more pretty spindle possibilities)
Having said that, Carol mentioned that there was some evidence of top whorl spindles from York - in the small finds books I know we have at work - so I will be taking a look at that as soon as I get back from holiday.
I also got as far as plying - which was a huge surprise for me - and I learnt the Andean plying technique from someone who was taught it by Ed Franquemont - very cool! I really liked that technique too - and it was ideal for the small amounts we were spinning. I also loved the dinky niddy-noddies they had - they were so cute!
The couple who taught the workshop, Peter and Carol, were brilliant - so friendly and excellent teachers. We did top whorl spinning, which isn't what I have tried before, and while I am still interested in low whorl spinning from a Regia point of view, there is nothing to stop me using top whorl for the fancy 'inauthentic' fibres I have - and learning more is seldom a bad thing :)
I can convert one of my spindles back to top whorl, and so have 2 of each (for now, of course learning this way opens me up to even more pretty spindle possibilities)
Having said that, Carol mentioned that there was some evidence of top whorl spindles from York - in the small finds books I know we have at work - so I will be taking a look at that as soon as I get back from holiday.
I also got as far as plying - which was a huge surprise for me - and I learnt the Andean plying technique from someone who was taught it by Ed Franquemont - very cool! I really liked that technique too - and it was ideal for the small amounts we were spinning. I also loved the dinky niddy-noddies they had - they were so cute!
Speaking of small amounts, here are my first 5.3g of plied yarn: 
Looks like I am a better spinner than I am photographer (not that that is hard)
I had such a fantastic time today - definitely I will go back to trying to spin for at least 10 mins a day
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