I love spindling fiber

Spinning really is miraculous and wonderful.  Almost like magic.  And when I tried for the first time, I think I probably thought it was magic because it’s hard when you learn, but once you catch on, it’s so simple.  I am also really interested in simple tools that can do so much and have been used for so long through time.  They cross cultural, gender and time boundaries.  The drop spindle is just one and I am happy to have discovered it once again.  You know, they say that because our ancestors worked with these tool, sometime our fingers instinctively know how to do things or how they might prefer to do them.  Like knitting Continental style versus English style, or drafting with your right hand or your left.  There isn’t a right way, just what works for different people.  For me, I knit Continental and I really want to learn how to knit English so I can do two colors at once, but I haven’t quite got it yet.  With spindling I hold the fiber in my right hand or around my right wrist and hold the twist with my left.  I don’t know if that is more of a right-handed way to do it or left….  Anyway, I am in love with fiber.  I want to try to spindle anything I can get ahold of.  If I could get my cat Spike to sit still, I’d spin his hair too.

Spike is the darker one. His hair is soooo long!