Spinning machine

I'm very proud of myself: I made a "charkha" this morning:

It works really well. It's much faster and easier to spin cotton on the bobbin winder than on any other of my spindles or wheels. Attaching a bobbin and a quill makes it a real spinning machine! I'm sure you can spin any short fibers with it.

The bobbin is from Ashford. I use them as storage bobbins for my spun singles, and I also have bigger ones from Schacht. Many of you may have bobbin winders and bobbins, so start making you own spinning machine! The quill can be anything that fits into the bobbin and has one sharp end. I made mine from a piece of wood I had lying around, only needed my beloved Swiss army knife to fix it. You can finish it with sandpaper if you want, I didn't, as you can see. It works splendidly anyway.

Off to Twitter to boast. I already did on Ravelry and Facebook :D

Cotton!

It was fun fun to spin cotton! I have made a skein that looks like something I could have spun decades ago :) Uneven, but can be used for something. OK, so I have to spin lots of cotton to get a yarn I can be proud of, but now I know how to do it. Spun on Hansen Minispinner:

Bomull - Cotton

Jag har spunnit mitt första bomullsgarn! Det är naturfärgad bomull i tre färger som jag fick av Ingrid i Sverige. Jag spann på en stödd slända med afrikansk trissa av lera, som jag köpte från Mandacrafts.

I have spun my first cotton yarn! It's naturally colored cotton in three colors. I got the fibers from Ingrid in Sweden. I used my supported African bead spindle I bought from Mandacrafts.