We fiber people are nothing if not enabling. First I'd point you to a couple of communities that are GREAT! handspinning or spinningfiberWhat can you use to spin? The possiblities are endless. You can buy rovings which is wool that is prepared and ready to spin, you can use the cotton from the inside of a medicine bottle, if you have some hand carders you can spin dog hair! The only limits are your imagination
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Thank you for the info! I'm a member of the 2 groups you mentioned, which is what finally pushed me over the edge into trying it myself.
On the supply end, I have NONE. I'm not sure which type of spindle to even get at this point. At the moment, they look like sticks with a wheel on the top or on the bottom. Still researching it all, when I have the time with the littles around.
As for your hint, makes perfect sense. While I hadn't thought of it that way directly, it nailed what I was thinking subconsciously ;)
Now to make a spindle and crack open this bottle of fenugreek for the cotton ;)
If it's not against the postal laws or anything I can send you some raw sheep wool that our sheep have left attached to the fence...some of it's covered in daggs (sheep shit) but you could work that into the pattern ;-)
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We fiber people are nothing if not enabling. First I'd point you to a couple of communities that are GREAT! handspinning or spinningfiberWhat can you use to spin? The possiblities are endless. You can buy rovings which is wool that is prepared and ready to spin, you can use the cotton from the inside of a medicine bottle, if you have some hand carders you can spin dog hair! The only limits are your imagination ( ... )
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On the supply end, I have NONE. I'm not sure which type of spindle to even get at this point. At the moment, they look like sticks with a wheel on the top or on the bottom. Still researching it all, when I have the time with the littles around.
As for your hint, makes perfect sense. While I hadn't thought of it that way directly, it nailed what I was thinking subconsciously ;)
Now to make a spindle and crack open this bottle of fenugreek for the cotton ;)
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Would comment more, but husband wants to go to sleep and I'm in the boonies of Tennessee on a 28.8k dialup connection... o_O
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