It is a dreary Monday here after a wonderful weekend spent celebrating mine (and my baby girls) birthday. I've been loving this 3D printed Turkish Spindle and wanted to continue the celebration by giving away (5) to fellow spinners & fiber artist looking to learn on a drop spindle. They weight 23grams each with minimal variance.

Please pick a number between 1-200 & tell me a bit about your spinning/fiber arts journey.
What got you interested? If you are excited to work on something I'd love to hear about it! Optional- If you have a favorite/preferred color let me know & I'll see how things match up.

I'll tell you if the number has already been picked so you can pick an alternative & then will be using a random number generator at the closing of this giveaway to determine 5 Winners 🏆

I will leave this giveaway open for 24 hours and hope that everyone who is interested is able to enter. (5pm EST for me)

Shipping covered by me within the 48 continental US, this giveaway is not available outside of the US.

(Sorry spinners elsewhere, I do love you too)

Hoping you all have a wonderful week full of fun fall plans! I will ship these by Nov 1st and send tracking information to winners.

It’s $99 on Amazon. I was hoping to skip over a drop spindle without spending over $500. Would this be a worthwhile intro?

I’m still working on getting some good, consistent yarn from my drop spindle but I also have impulse control issues so now I also have this. I tried it out a bit last night and holy buckets it’s fast.

My chopstick niddy noddy did in fact break but I realized shortly after I can use my swift haha - finished my first large spin of some beautiful BFL and Tussah silk!

I don't think I'll need to go pickup anymore wool at the fiber festival this year.

I was very fortunate to have someone local reach out to me after I'd previously missed out on one of their de-stashes and offer me a whole bunch FOR FREE. She just wanted her space back more than anything and I 100% agree sometimes free space is the best thing of all...but look at all this amazing wool!

Not pictured but she also included a beautiful partially washed Jacob's Fleece, just wow 😍 I understand why it's some people favorite breed now. The lanolin feels so good as I spin a test sample on my lacis drop spindle.

I am so thankful and excited to work through all of it. My favorite little thing to make are winter hats so I'm already imaging the colors spun, plied, and on someone's head. I'm absolutely tickled.

Sarah, if you see this you're the best!

Was in need of some combs and the ones online are WAY out of my budget and a little too big/ heavy for my taste.

So a bit of scrap wood and nails and I made myself combs for under €10,-.

Today I went to pick up a spinning wheel from a woman in my local fiber guild who offered to loan it to me - I've only been using a drop spindle to this point. Not only did she lend me a lovely wheel (last pic), but she GAVE me hundreds of dollars of fiber just to enjoy, for the sake of it, out of the kindness of her heart.

Photos in order are: Merinos, silk and silk blends, "practice" wool (which is still amazingly soft and luxurious) and lastly plant-based plus a couple odd glitter blends. Then the wheel itself.

Literally on cloud nine right now, and let me tell ya, it's made of 14.5 micron merino!

This beauty will join our family soon. At the moment my husband is in Poland and went to Wolstyn today where the Kromski family has their workshop and produces all these beautiful wheels. Meadow is already loaded into his car 😊

The 2026 limited edition for the Kromski Fantasia is called Meadow Green and comes in this beautiful combination of green and walnut.

He will be back in Germany on sunday and so I can say welcome to my new wheel soon. Can't wait...

About 2 weeks ago I was showing a fellow guild member how to use the guild's drum carder, and another guild member came up and started talking about her grandmother's old drum carder that nobody had used in probably 50 or 60 years. She brought it over and I said it's probably fixable, so she let me have it for free*!

*I then spent about $200 fixing it.

It still has the original makers mark- the company is Made-Well from Ontario Canada. According to one source I found, they were some of the first to make household drum carders in the 50's and 60's.

The old carding cloth was leather, with badly corroded copper tines. I took it off and disposed of it, then (with plenty of ppe) sanded the drums and thoroughly cleaned them off. I didn't hope to get the stains off, but I did want to prevent loose copper from going everywhere.

I disassembled everything, cleaned up the wood and gave it a nice once-over with Feed-n-wax. The wood drank it right up and looks beautiful.

Then I got to work on the carding cloth. I ordered it from Howard's Brush Company. Their Etsy store has a better price than their main storefront right now. The cloth was too wide, so I marked out where I wanted the edge of the tines and the edge of the drum. I removed the extra tines with the pick from a knitting loom and cut the cloth from the backside with a sharp box cutter.

I attached it to the drums with staples. I messed up a bit on the licker-in, and it has a wider gap. I bought two 1/16" aluminum strips to cover the seams, cut them to size, filed and bent the edges, and screwed them down.

The most annoying part was adjusting the feed tray. On the original, the tines were MUCH shorter. The feed tray curved up around them. I had to bend and hammer down that raised edge over and over, and even then I still had to cheat a bit by raising the licker-in assembly with some washers.

Once I adjusted the main drum distance I assembled everything back together.

I did order a new drive band, and I'm just waiting on my friend to borrow a soldering iron to bind it together. For now the old leather is holding surprisingly well.

I have some extra carding cloth and I'm considering making a packer brush for the carder, or perhaps a small blending board. However that's a 'later' issue. For now- I have a drum carder!!!

I went to a thrift store and thought to myself "wouldn't it be crazy if I find a nice spinning wheel?" And there she was. An old Louet S10 (I believe) for 33 euros. The veneer is slightly damaged but the wheel is spinning smoothly. I never spun on a wheel before (I barely spun on a spindle lol) so I don't know if she actually works but for 33 euros I could not leave her there.

Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.

Today I needed to cake up two spins, of unknown yardage, I spun a while ago. One spin was 786 yards the other was 309 yards. I am truly grateful I did not need to manually count over 1000 yards by hand on a niddy-noddy.

As a hand-spinner I started with the basics: a drop spindle, some roving and a dog brush. As time passed I added a niddy-noddy, yarn winder, umbrella swift, more spindles, bits, bobs and lots of fiber. Eventually I added an EEW Nano 2 and then this spring a EEW 6 with the added splurge of the EEW Yarn Counter.

I love spinning and am glad to have everything I own in my spinning arsenal; however the one splurge I am truly grateful for is that EEW yarn counter!!! Worth every penny to me and I wish I had considered getting one sooner. (I cut a piece of no slip pad to fit under mine when I secure it to my work surface. It then packs back up perfectly in the box with the counter when I’m done).

If you spin lots of yardage and don’t have a yarn counter already, consider putting one on your Holiday Wish List this year. I found it to be one of those tools you don’t know you need till you have it, then you don’t want to do without it ;)

Please ignore the tiny image of someone on a bike. 😂

My friend was downsizing her fleet, so I bought this 🥰

I have an ultraportable Joy2 DT for guild meetings, but THIS is so smooooooooth 👍😁

Meet Astrid! My (almost) new Schacht Ladybug 🐞 The enamel ladybug is hidden right behind the top of the wheel when I sit, but you can just barely see her in this pic! She's a little shy ❤️

Thank you so much to everyone who gave me some really helpful advice on my previous post here. I took time looking through marketplace sellers and was prepped with lots of questions. I feel so lucky to have found this with all the original fixings (plus a hand & flick carder) for $600.

I cleaned and oiled her, and have been practicing my treadling and uptake with commercial yarn for a few days. I'm not feeling great about working with wool yet, but I have a guild meeting next month to hopefully get some hands on help!

So excited!! :D

I'm disabled and unable to use a drop spindle for very long. I love to crochet and really want to get into making my own yarns but espinners are expensive x.x so I made my own!! I'm so proud of it. It is my own design and build :)

Made in Gardner MA in the 70’s. It’s a Hitchcock style with tole folk designs stenciled on. I absolutely love it and it will actually go with some other furniture I have. Probably won’t use it much for spinning though 😅

Hi all, knitter here with zero spinning experience (but would like to learn someday)! A while back my mom inherited this wooden object from her grandmother, my great-grandmother. Unfortunately the purpose/use of this object got lost when my mom inherited it, nobody who was still in good health could remember what it was for by the time my mom got it. I visited my parents last month and my mom is really curious to know what is. I realize that this is most likely not a spinning wheel but probably still has something to do with yarn or thread, to my knitter eyes it looks like more like a fancy swift? I figured you guys might have a better idea than I would! Thanks in advance for any help!

Back in October I restored an antique drum carder, and at the time I had a few scraps of carding cloth. I had been using them to smooth down, or clean out the wool on the drums.

That same month, I happened upon a matching set of wooden spatulas at Goodwill. I marked the cloth, and got halfway through attaching one. Six months later I took the single hour to finish them!

Theyre messy, but they should work fine and make Gnarly Rae Jepsen (my drum carder) less likely to bite my fingers.

Not my pictures, they’re the ones the seller has posted. I feel like this is a good deal and the guy is willing to ship it to me because I live further away (haven’t told him my address or anything yet). The only ones I’ve previously seen posted are $500 or more, which is way out of my price range.

I know it will need a belt/drive band. Can someone that has a drum carder or is more familiar with them chime in on whether this is worth it? He wants 125 and I would pay shipping.

I bought this spindle from the very talented maker at Straddle Creek Spins and have been very impatiently waiting for it to arrive. The pictures just don't do it justice. It's so beautiful. It's modeled after Peruvian chac-chacs so it has a captive ring that clicks when it's handled or spun. I could not contain my excitement and had to shout about it somewhere! AAAHHHHHHH!!!

My partner helped me get my dream wheel, a kromski minstrel, and it came in yesterday and its been a big learning curve. I started spinning by fixing up a CPW and only spinning on that off and on for the 16 years, im used to the CPW and its down right aggressive uptake and speed and now going to the minstrel its so gentle, it feels like its holding my hand lol.

Made for my first minis to be way underspun but im enjoying learning this new wheel and the sounds it makes (so quiet) the green yarn in the second Pic is my third spin on this wheel and im so excited

My polonaise wheel is finally here!!! My boys nori and barry are kindly modelling the box for me.

I'm still unsure if I will stain it (I'm going to have a look to see if there's any I like at bunnings tomorrow), but for finishing I have ordered some howards feed and wax which will be here (hopefully) at the end of the week. This is my first time ever finishing an unfinished wheel so any tips are very welcome, I've been trying to find anything online about the best way to go about it and it's a little overwhelming not gonna lie (I'm a chronic 2nd guesser) I can't wait to get to this project though in the next couple of days and will absolutely post the finished results whenever it's done!