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Post by bergere on Mar 30, 2015 11:25:43 GMT
So what kind of Spinning wheels does everyone have. I have a double treadle Majacraft Saxony I just love. (wish they still made them) Can spin from thread to very chunky yarn... have tons of control and it spins very smooth. Here, Mia is helping my ply some Yarn... I do move my chair and spinning wheel around, depending on the light and time of year. Some of my yarn... Would love to see photos of everyone else's wheels. Have to admit, if I had more room, I would see about collecting other wheels.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 20:16:40 GMT
That is a very nice wheel (and a beautiful room.)
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Post by bergere on Mar 30, 2015 20:44:59 GMT
Thank you Mearwynna. Do you spin too?
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Post by Maura on Mar 30, 2015 21:01:55 GMT
I have a Kromski Minstrel. I’d like to add a Saxony, but we are moving to a smaller house so I don’t know.
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Mar 30, 2015 21:13:18 GMT
My first wheel is an Ashford Traveller. It was my only wheel (except for antiques rescued from shops) for about 6 years. It has the jumbo flyer/bobbins that I use for plying. When I started travelling for business (gone a week at a time), I needed a wheel to take with me to help unwind at night. I tried out a majority of the foldable wheels and the Kromski Sonata came home with me. I purchased a WooLee Winder for it and it became the wheel I spun on with the Traveller becoming a dedicated plying wheel. Dec 2013, I had a compound separation of the ankle & broke a leg bone. Even after a year, I have quite a bit of pain when spinning for a long period of time on the Sonata .... sooooo, I got this wonderful Ashford Elizabeth 30". Boy is she fast! And easy on my ankle. I've since sold two of my antique wheels
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Mar 30, 2015 21:17:28 GMT
I've since sold two of my antique wheels, an Irish Saxony & a little bitty one. The sale of those (plus a hefty soap sale) gave me the ability to get a jumbo WooLee Winder for the Traveller and a regular WooLee winder for the Elizabeth 30 And I have a Great Wheel that I 'dance with' every now and again
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Post by Callie on Mar 30, 2015 23:26:56 GMT
I have a schacht ladybug! I love her.
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Post by jd4020 on Mar 31, 2015 0:53:08 GMT
Oh what beautiful wheels! I wondered how your ankle was doing Cyndi. I have had several lap kitties. Your Mia looks quite comfortable in your lap. My first wheel is a Kromski Prelude. The next wheel I bought at an auction is a great wheel. The next one I bought from my sil's Mom. It is an old Ashford Elizabeth which she didn't want anymore. I plan to give that one back to our grandaughter one day, to keep it in the family. She is only two, but she watches when I have spun on it and I'm hoping she will want to spin as well. The last one is a CPW. It is a fine wheel except the flyer is broken, cracked in half. I'm thinking to glue it and use one of those corner nails (used to hold wooden picture frame corners together) on both sides would do it. Any thoughts on that? God bless, jd
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Post by TommyIce on Mar 31, 2015 1:37:25 GMT
I'm embarrassed. MLF might remember that I swore in the FA forum that I was going to get my wheel spinning this winter. Nope it's still throwing it's drive band. It's located in my father's house (we live next door to each other) and every time I go next door to try and work on it, Dad has a "help me" list.
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Mar 31, 2015 2:18:06 GMT
It happens. Now you have more time before winter hits again!
There is always a bright side!
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Post by ketoriverfarm on Mar 31, 2015 3:38:51 GMT
My first wheel is a louet. And my second wheel is a lendrum. And I use them both.
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Post by mollymckee on Mar 31, 2015 3:41:32 GMT
I'm embarrassed. MLF might remember that I swore in the FA forum that I was going to get my wheel spinning this winter. Nope it's still throwing it's drive band. It's located in my father's house (we live next door to each other) and every time I go next door to try and work on it, Dad has a "help me" list. I understand only too well--I planned to get my wheel out and start spinning again. I feel guilty every time I see all the things you spinners are doing. I really, really will start spinning this year, or I'm going to give my wheel to a friends daughter who knits beautifully and wants to spin!
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Post by bergere on Mar 31, 2015 11:16:16 GMT
I love all your wheels mullerslandfarm! Can only dream of having that many. Sounds like most everyone has some really nice wheels. Very cool you have lap kitties to JD. Would love to see photos of everyone's wheels. If one can't afford a wheel right now, could always give a spindle a try!
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Mar 31, 2015 12:19:10 GMT
I'd love to see everyone's spindles!!! I just have a few homemade ones
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Post by bergere on Mar 31, 2015 13:13:10 GMT
I don't remember who I bought this spindle from, has great balance and the perfect weight to spin wool.
Along with seeing everyone else's wheel, am with Cyndi... would love to see their spindles too. I am not obsessed with everything fiber.... honest.
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Mar 31, 2015 13:15:54 GMT
I am not obsessed with everything fiber.... honest. No one is buying that around here, bergere ... Embrace the obsession!
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Post by Wind in Her Hair on Mar 31, 2015 14:18:21 GMT
My first wheel is "Patience" this lovely Minnesota-made, locally-crafted Norwegian table or bench wheel made by the late Earl Oman of Proctor, MN. She is flawless. Made from a native birch, she is wonderful. In this picture, I am sitting at "Patience" and my second wheel "Texie" is on the left. My second wheel is "Texie" - named after my great great grandmother, Texas "Texie" Chance - a Bluebonnet Spinning Wheel Company, made in my beloved Texas, she is a little folding travel wheel made of solid red oak from Texas. At 11 pounds, she folds and fits comfortably in a basket I wove. My third wheel is this sweet little Haldane Shetland wheel from Scotland. I call her "Nessie". She is a wonderful wheel to spin woolen yarns on and she is very popular at the Celtic Festival I spin at each summer - because she is Scottish and all. :)I am told that she is made from European Beech.
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Post by Wind in Her Hair on Mar 31, 2015 14:21:34 GMT
Wheel number four was an unexpected treasure - a Canadian Production Wheel that miraculously dropped in my lap. HIS name is "Vrombisassantes vieux grincheaux du Ste. Hyacinthe avec un poulet l’ecrou" which roughly translates to "Thundering/rumbling grumpy old man from Ste. Hyacinthe with a chicken nut". I call him "Grincheaux" for short. Then...last May, while we were at Shepherd's Harvest, Kasota and BlueBerryChick talked me into acquiring this Indian Valley Indian Head Spinner. "BUY IT, YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT!" So, "Naniboujou" (the Cree Indian spirit of the woods) came home and joined my herd. yeah, I know I have a problem. My sweetheart, Cabin Fever, and I were talking about Shepherd's Harvest and he said to me... "You can't POSSIBLY need anything at Shepherd's Harvest, can you?" "Of course not!" that's what I thought LAST year ...until I saw this wheel.
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Post by ketoriverfarm on Mar 31, 2015 17:07:38 GMT
I have never named my wheels. But I really liked WIHH's names for all of her FOUR wheels. And I thought two was a bit excessive. So now I think I should name mine. Have to give it some thought.
When I cannot sleep at night, I spin on my Lendrum. And my Louet lives in my Wool Room in the upstairs of the barn. I am getting close to lambing so soon I will be sleeping in the barn - so I will be spinning there when I am awake. I am going through a spell of sleeping until midnight or 1 am- then I will be awake for 2-4 hours and then get sleepy again. Not conducive to restful sleep.
I am thinking about calling my Louet - Betsy. She is my old, faithful wheel and she came from a favorite aunt. My aunt for my first Christmas after getting my wheel, sent me a huge box of samples of every type of fiber imaginable with notes and suggestions.
Susan
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Post by Cabin Fever on Mar 31, 2015 17:27:26 GMT
.....But I really liked WIHH's names for all of her FOUR wheels...... No, that would be FIVE wheels! Why anyone would ever need more than one spinning wheel is beyond me!
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Post by mollymckee on Mar 31, 2015 17:31:19 GMT
Same reason someone needs more than 1 gun--or more that 1 pistol, 1 rifle, and a shotgun!
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Mar 31, 2015 17:41:17 GMT
Same reason someone needs more than 1 gun--or more that 1 pistol, 1 rifle, and a shotgun! Absolutely THIS, Cabin Fever At one time I had 8, but I'm down to a respectable 4 ... and all 3 of those gets used at least once or twice a week
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2015 17:43:07 GMT
Or 4 different hammers and 5 different tape measures! I'm guilty I admit it!
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Post by Muller's Lane Farm on Mar 31, 2015 17:48:44 GMT
Or 5 types of whisks, spatulas, turners, slotted spoons, pots, pans .... et al
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2015 18:38:39 GMT
Well, I'm down to just one treadle sewing machine, at one point there were five. However, I'm not quite sure how many sewing machines there are total. The one treadle, one in a cabinet, one to travel to quilting group, one as parts for the one to travel to quilting group, a not-in-a-cabinet vintage Bernina that I like because it threads itself, two antique hand crank ones in wooden cases. Ha! That's only seven. At least, I think there's only seven one might be hiding somewhere. I've given away a half dozen of them as well as four treadles so the herd is thinning. Only three spinning wheels. The Canadian Production Wheel is still technically under repair, but it spins beautifully even while injured. The pair of Ashfords are a pair just because one popped up at a yard sale at such a reasonable price that I couldn't leave it there. It will eventually go to a new home somewhere. The one in front is my first spinning wheel. It's got the lace flyer, regular flyer, jumbo flyer & Woolee Winder as well as a slew of bobbins. That makes everything but the fine stuff, the CPW is for making loads and loads of thin yarn fast. Which it does! Prior to getting the CPW, I hardly ever made thin yarn since it took so much time and treadling. Now, it's a scramble to keep enough fiber going into the orifice even when making fine yarns.
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Post by jd4020 on Mar 31, 2015 18:38:48 GMT
or several sewing machines. (Edited--I posted about the same time as hotzcatz.) The wheel I bought from my son-in-law I call Groanin Moana because she kind of groans as she turns. The others, nothing has really stuck. It's kind of like when I'm talking to my critters and the name just suddenly rolls off the tongue & I think, yeah, that's who you are. I like all the wheels and the names you have chosen. Susan, I have a 1970 chevy truck I have named Betsy. She needs a little engine work but she is in excellent shape. And it's an engine you can see, not covered with all the "stuff" on today's newer vehicles. Old, simple & reliable. God bless, jd
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2015 19:02:53 GMT
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Post by kkbhf on Mar 31, 2015 19:30:12 GMT
My duo
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Post by kkbhf on Mar 31, 2015 19:38:50 GMT
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Post by bergere on Mar 31, 2015 19:53:21 GMT
Wheel number four was an unexpected treasure - a Canadian Production Wheel that miraculously dropped in my lap. HIS name is "Vrombisassantes vieux grincheaux du Ste. Hyacinthe avec un poulet l’ecrou" which roughly translates to "Thundering/rumbling grumpy old man from Ste. Hyacinthe with a chicken nut". I call him "Grincheaux" for short. Then...last May, while we were at Shepherd's Harvest, Kasota and BlueBerryChick talked me into acquiring this Indian Valley Indian Head Spinner. "BUY IT, YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT!" So, "Naniboujou" (the Cree Indian spirit of the woods) came home and joined my herd. yeah, I know I have a problem. My sweetheart, Cabin Fever, and I were talking about Shepherd's Harvest and he said to me... "You can't POSSIBLY need anything at Shepherd's Harvest, can you?" "Of course not!" that's what I thought LAST year ...until I saw this wheel. I love all your wheels. Now I am ashamed of myself... I never once thought to name my wheel! Have never seen a wheel like Naniboujou! She is a beauty!
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