Spinning resources

[amy]

Welcome to the spinning forum!

There's a wonderful site for spinners which has many videos on technique. The site is www.joyofhandspinning.com

For purchasing spinning wheels, drop spindles or roving, one place I know of is www.yarn.com . They have a great selection of wheels, at the best prices I could find when I looked.

If anyone has any other resources, feel free to share them here!

[Vendie]

YAY!!! I'm so happy we have a spinning forum now! You know, uh, Amy :eyebrow: if you're looking for a moderator for this one, let me know :D

Anyway, there's a new e-zine for spinning called Spindlicity. Their URL - http://spindlicity.com/. The focus appears to be on drop spindle spinning, but they do cover other spinning topics and also have knitting related content. Check it out!

[VickiIL]

YAY :cheering:

Thanks Amy! I found this great site while I was trying to learn drop spindle. www.icanspin.com

It has some great videos!

[Angelia]

Yay!!! Thanks so much, Amy! :heart:

[Cristy]

I don't know a thing about spinning so hopefully I'll learn something!

[WynnieG]

One of my resources for anything spinning related has always been Halcyon Yarns.com (http://www.halcyonyarns.com/spinning/spinningwheels.html). They have a store in Bath, Maine - they teach spinning in classes there *and* they will help you with your wheel over the phone. Outstanding customer service from these folks.

[feministmama]

Welcome to the spinning forum!

There's a wonderful site for spinners which has many videos on technique. The site is www.joyofhandspinning.com



Yeah a website about spinning by a black woman!!

[WynnieG]

Oh my. I found something absolutely delicious online today, must share.

Local Harvest (http://www.localharvest.org/store/wool.jsp?q=fleece%20rovings&r=aw&kw=hand%20spinning) has wool roving from $1.50/oz and Shetland/Angora from $3.00. Raw wool starts at $2.50 and Raw alpaca from $2.00.

If you can't get out to a local farm to obtain fleece, this looks like a good place to go! Pretty eco-friendly stuff!

[humblestumble]

http://www.monkeystack.com/PLP/movies/dropspindle.html

there's a semi okay vid for learning how to spin via low whirl drop spindle.

[Treeling]

Wow.... the timing on this is just PERFECT. I *just* ordered my first drop-spindle/roving/how-to kit on ebay (the yearning to try spinning has been building over the past few months and I am SUPER excited)!!!

I'm so glad to see knowledgable folks in here who can help me out when the going gets rough.

[Liliyarn]

Okay time to unload my links. Hope they help.

How To's
How to use a drop spindle (http://www.handspinning.com/lollipops/spininst.htm)

Spinning Dog Fur (http://www.inetdesign.com/wolfdunn/wolfyarn/)

HJS Tutorials (http://www.hjsstudio.com/tutorials.html)

Natural Dying (http://www.frojel.com/Documents/Document07.html)

How to Paint Roving and yarn (http://gfwsheep.com/rov.inst/rov.inst.html)

Spinning from the fold (http://www.graftonfibers.com/fold.htm)

All kinds of dying and spinning tutorials (http://www.knitting-and.com/spinning/index.html)

Kool Aid Dying (http://www.thepiper.com/fiberart/koolaid/basic-howto.html)

Finding Guilds
Spinning Guilds (http://www.interweave.com/spin/resources/spinning_guilds/)

Map Muse Spinning Guilds (http://find.mapmuse.com/re1/map_brand.php?goto=yes&gotoLoc=33.6608%2C-80.9015%2C275&noOfLayers=1&layer0=SPIN_GUILDS&sp_theme=SPIN_GUILDS&searchLOC1=33.6608,-80.9015,275,&)

Misc Resources
Fiber Resources of all kinds (http://www.allfiberarts.com/cs/index.htm)
Sheep Breeds (http://www.fuzzygalore.biz/articles/sheep_breeds.shtml)

Spinner's House Cleaning Pages (http://homepages.together.net/~kbruce/kbbwheel.html)

That's it for now.

[midnightskyfibers]

I have spinnign supplies here: Midnightsky Fibers (http://midnightskyfibers.com/)- mostly roving and batts.

There is also some information in the articles section (http://www.midnightskyfibers.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=24&chapter=0&zenid=a3566a60d210d5dc24a1cdde63125a52)about different spinning, dye, etc styles

I also really like helloyarn.com (and her blog- helloyarn.com/wp)- she has drop spindle kits.

[Julie]

An awesome resource for new spindle spinners:

http://knitterguy.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/11/spindle_spinnin.html

[fillyvet]

Hi all! I'm a forum newbie :) So, I have this really great job that allows me some interesting perks... like the recent acquisition of 4 or 5# of raw alpaca fiber. Someday I would love to learn how to process and spin but until I live in an apartment bigger than 400 sq ft, I would like to send it somewhere for processing. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[jeanius80]

Hi all! I'm a forum newbie :) So, I have this really great job that allows me some interesting perks... like the recent acquisition of 4 or 5# of raw alpaca fiber. Someday I would love to learn how to process and spin but until I live in an apartment bigger than 400 sq ft, I would like to send it somewhere for processing. Any suggestions? Thanks!
i would google for info in your area (or within a reasonable to you shipping distance) for a wool mill/yarn mill/spinning mill, then contact them. for a fee they will usually offer multiple options, from just processing your fleece to spinning yarn from your fleece. HTH

[IamtheWalter]

I figure I should add here the sites I feel could be helpful. I am going to try not to post any repeats (sites that someone else posted) and I'm going to try not to post an overwhelming link flood, but most likely I will:

Instructional:
http://www.spindleandwheel.com
http://www.interweave.com/spin
http://www.abbysyarns.com
http://spinningspiderjenny.blogspot.com
http://askthebellwether.blogspot.com
http://www.ispindle.com (used to be icanspin.com but because of a domain name mixup they no longer occupy that address)
http://www.bellaonline.com/site/spinning (half original articles, half links)
http://www.textilelinks.com/author/index.html

Sheep breeds:
http://www.sheep101.info/breeds.html
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/

[bethany]

Well there hasn't been an update to this thread in a while! I *highly* recommend this book!! Spindles, wheels, wool prep, a glossary (wanna know what pre-drafting is?) great pictures....http://www.interweave.com/spin/books/Start_Spinning/

[Staarrkatt]

Hello :)

I'm really new here (like ... an hour ago? <G>) so maybe someone else has already posted this site.

I'm just learning how to spin and asked a spinner if she had an online site to help me and she sent me this one:

http://www.handspinning.com/lollipops/spininst.htm

Katt

[Tia]

I recently heard of Sheep Shed Studio. They seem to have great deals on mill ends and grab bags of fiber.

http://www.thesheepshedstudio.com/index.html

Anybody ever ordered from them?...some people on ravelry really praised them.