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[holli]

YOU GUYS.

YOU GUYS.

I OWN A SPINNING WHEEL.

\o/

eta: The best part? (aside from OWNING A SPINNING WHEEL ZOMG) As I was carrying the box back to my car, I passed a big group of women eating lunch on the grass outside the main exhibition hall. One of them said "You bought a wheel! Congratulations!"

I was still kind of giddy, so I said "Thank you! It's my first wheel! I'm really excited!"

AND THEY ALL STARTED CLAPPING. Knitters are awesome.

Comments

[sophiap.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Congratulations! What kind?

[holli.livejournal.com]

An Ashford Kiwi! It's so, so pretty.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEE

I am so envious. Tell us more.

[holli.livejournal.com]

Well, I tried a couple of different wheels at the Sheep & Wool Festival, but they were all single-treadle and I just could *not* get the hang of them at all. But the Kiwi's a double treadle, and the minute I sat down to it I totally got it, and therefore it is MINE.

[fatoudust.livejournal.com]

How completely cool is that???

My elderly Navajo neighbor spins her own. It is gorgeous.

[kyra.livejournal.com]

There were a couple of Navajo stalls at the Festival, and I saw a gentleman who was minding one of those stalls handspinning onto a - I think it's called a spindle? I'm a yarn whore, so I'm not familiar with the spinning terminology. Anyway, it looked quite nifty.

[holli.livejournal.com]

A drop spindle, yeah. I think there's a particular kind of Navajo spindle and style of spinning, though, and I'm not terribly familiar with it.

[flyingtapes.livejournal.com]

hee! awesome.