#supported spinning

The beautiful red southdown batts came with a couple samples from other batts they sell so I spun them up as a little bit of a palate cleanser and it was very very enjoyable. (Shop is My Little Sheep on Etsy, definitely recommend if you like southdown !!) Theres a white/green/yellow section below this, im gonna make a ply bracelet with this and see how it looks.

Also, I was able to spin this all in one sitting, which is very nice. Ive had problems supported spinning because theres not a lot of positions i can stay in for more than like 20 minutes. Granted, I was in a lot of pain by the end, mostly my arms and neck, but its still a big improvement because I had to stop supported spinning entirely for about a year because it was so painful. Very glad I can do it again...should not spin this much in one go in the future tho lol.

here is me spinning and said finished skein

After a post by @disgruntled-lifeform and tags by @swords-n-spindles I wanna show off my household item bowls for supported spinning:

As you can see I have 2 egg cups: the chicken (from my parents' house) tipped over so often so i now mainly use the turtle I found in a store last year. The soup ladle (thrifted) is for spinning while hiking/walks/on trains/whenever I spin outvof the house and everyone loves it. And one of my spindles loves the champagne glass (also thrifted).

The small coloured wood thing in the back also is a spinning bowl with a magnet and my only bowl which was made with the intention of spinning in it. It currently sits on my spindle lazy-kate but it can also be used on another piece of wood to be held between the legs. I haven't worked much with that tho.

Finally had the right savings at the right time (and the right lightning-fast reflex on a drop date) to snag my second Glasspin! It's even more beautiful in person than I was expecting, and surprisingly lightweight. I'm breaking it in with some of my hoarded and precious baby camel/tussah silk blend ✨

...I may have started hand spinning.

I'm using a homemade supported spindle from a craft dowel and some polymer clay. I decided to start with a supported spindle instead of a drop spindle because I have fatigue issues and I think the drop spindle would require too much body energy to be fun to do.

Froghair, mohair who knows 🤷

I decided to bring the kid mohair on vacation, it is a nice change after all that soft fluff of the baby camel and silk