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Summer Q&A: The Wheels — Why, and Which?

  • Abby Franquemont
  • Jun 27, 2008
  • 38 Comments So far
  • Equipment | Fiber Arts At Large | Handspinning | Other Stuff | Spinning Tech | Spinning Wheels

Allright, I’m going to do a few questions relating to my wheel collection, because it’s been a long week and that’s what I think I have the cycles to do. Ok, devil’s advocate here: Why do you have so many? Are certain wheels better for spinning certain kinds of yarns? And how do you justify […]

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Class Photo

  • Abby Franquemont
  • Jun 25, 2008
  • 35 Comments So far
  • Other Stuff | Q and A | Spinning Wheels

In that way that things sometimes go, a wheel followed me home yesterday… It’s an older Country Craftsman, a 24″ Saxony wheel, literally never used. It needs some cleaning up and minor tweaks, but should be a solid enough spinner once those are all squared away. Posting the picture on Ravelry, though, resulted in folks […]

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Guess Who’s Hanging With Me For A Few?

  • Abby Franquemont
  • Apr 10, 2008
  • 15 Comments So far
  • Articles | Equipment | Handspinning | Spinning Wheels

Some boxes got here just after dinner last night. Hrmmmm… says Louet all over those boxes. Let’s look closer. In case you can’t tell, that says S-11 Julia. What I have here is a prototype/demo of Louet’s latest spinning wheel, the first round of which are due to arrive at US and Canadian dealers who’ve […]

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Debates: Wheel vs. Spindle

  • Abby Franquemont
  • Aug 20, 2007
  • 33 Comments So far
  • Articles | Fiber Arts At Large | Handspinning | Spindles | Spinning Wheels

Here we go with round one of my series tackling some of the classic debates in the handspinning arena. A few of you laughingly commented this might be an odd choice of timing to go picking fights, what with absurd heat waves going around and how that affects temperaments — but then again, perhaps a […]

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