Glynis
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I did it!I got a wheel 
I've been thinking it over for a long while, but then several things came together at once, so I jumped  
It's a second hand Ashford Traveller, but a fairly recent one. DH is quite keen to tweak it and make sure everything runs just so, though I've been playing a little bit already
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pictish
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Very exciting!!!!!  Did you get some fibre too?? 
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melody yarns
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Ah great! I like it when a plan comes together
Happy spinning!
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KnittingLadybird
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ooooh that sounds fab  ....can't wait to see your handspun too.
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cazzie
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Oooo fab
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Glynis
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| pictish wrote: | | Very exciting!!!!! Did you get some fibre too?? |
Luckily I have some fibre that I'd been using with the drop spindle, but I dare say I need to buy a smidgeon more
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Glynis
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| KnittingLadybird wrote: | | ooooh that sounds fab ....can't wait to see your handspun too. |
I fear that may be a while coming. I don't learn as fast as I once did 
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KnittingLadybird
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I love handspun and it'll be worth the wait (no matter how long it takes) I think people who learn to spin get so sucked in it takes over....you ask CJ!!
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Glynis
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Ah now, you see we have CJ to blame for my starting out on spinning. I bought a drop spindle that she was selling, and although that wasn't the spindle that eventually "hooked" me, it was the one that gave me my first taster
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Fi
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Oh you lucky thing.
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Wildpurl
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Oooh Glynis how exciting! I'm very envious, I really want a wheel, although I have just bought a second spindle...
I think you'll need LOTS more fibre as you will be so much faster.
And I must say that seeing CJs spinnig is one of the things that has persuaded me to have a go at learning to do it. It is just addictive though, watching the yarn come out of the fluff...
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franney
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How fab!! Hope you're having fun playing with it Glynis
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modelwidow
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I'm envious too, have a lovely time playing with your new toy - and please can we have some piccys, I'd love to see it and what you achieve.
(Did I imagine it, or was it you that went to Hill Top for a lesson? I'm still toying with the idea, though I am less sure of a 'one to one' and would prefer a class.)
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CJ
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oh, I've just spotted this thread. what's all this blaming me then!!!
I must get round to knitting more with my handspun as it seems to be taking over my knitting stash at the mo. 
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FatCat
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| CJ wrote: | | what's all this blaming me then!!! |
That'd be because it is all actually your fault .....
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CJ
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surely not all my fault, FC. there are loads of spinner's on ravelry.
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Glynis
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| modelwidow wrote: | I'm envious too, have a lovely time playing with your new toy - and please can we have some piccys, I'd love to see it and what you achieve.
(Did I imagine it, or was it you that went to Hill Top for a lesson? I'm still toying with the idea, though I am less sure of a 'one to one' and would prefer a class.) |
Sorry, I've only just seen this 
Yes, I had a couple of hours with Sue at Hilltop.
In a while I may book another couple of hours.
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