Sunday, 22 October 2017

Introduction to Spinning at the Handweavers Studio & Gallery

I recently took the Introduction to Spinning workshop run by Brenda Gibson at the Handweavers Studio & Gallery in Finsbury Park. It was a fun day, although spinning didn't capture my heart in the way knitting and weaving did. I now have two tiny skeins of the lumpiest yarn imaginable and no idea what to do with them.

Spun using a drop spindle, (more even, but thicker overall):


Spun using a spinning wheel, (thinner in parts, but greater variation in thickness):