In Respect the Spindle: The Video, veteran spinner and spindle aficionado Abby Franquemont shows spinners old and new how to create volumes of incredible yarn with this amazing yet simple tool.
You’ll learn:
• How spinning works and how to spin on a simple stick
• How to make a functional spindle out of almost anything
• How to spin a lot of excellent yarn in an amazingly short time
• How to manage the yarn supply, to ply efficiently, and to finish appropriately
The result? Spinning will become your take-along, anytime, anywhere craft. You won’t want to leave home without it.
Item #: 09SP05
Without this video I wouldn't be a spinner.
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Thanks to Abby and her video I am quite proficient at spindle spinning. I really enjoy spinning and use it to calm myself when stressed.
This video has the ability to make you spin better just by watching. I was spinning messily when I popped the DVD in originally and I looked down half way thru it and my single was about lace weight, even, and gorgeous. Just watching how Abby drafts and spins and wraps on makes you see what you need to do.
I recommend this DVD to all of my friends and have even passed it on to people that I've taught to spin to help them out a little more when they have questions and can't come to me in person. This is the DVD for anyone who wants to learn to spin, spin better, or get a better understanding of spinning in the first place. I can't wait to get Abby's video on drafting. Not because I need it after spinning for almost 2 years now...but because I like her teaching efforts and think she's great.
This DVD is awesome. Abby tells you all there is to know about using a spindle. Maybe more then some want to know, but I found the history totally fascinating. I thought, if a 5 year old child can learn this, I can too. I just recently learned to spin, but Abby gave me so many little tidbits of advice in this video. It was just what I was looking for to advance to the next level. I'm looking forward to getting better using all the techniques she describes. I was thinking of getting a spinning wheel, and now I think I'll stay with the spindle a little bit longer! Great Video, highly recommend
I saw a brief portion of this video on interweave website.
I thought it was very good. The presenter used her black top several times to assist
me to see her thread and her method.
I have been taking private lessons and I learned the following: 1) how to make the spindle from inexpensive materials, 2) how to wrap the thread around the hand and 3) the art of drafting without necessarily using
parking - I thought it improved my understanding more than the way I have been learning!
As a beginner spindle user, I was looking forward to this DVD. I was very disappointed! The color of the fiber she was using was much too close to the color of her t-shirt making it difficult to see what she was demonstrating. I also thought that she talked/lectured too much instead of showing how to use the spindle. I did not learn anything new from this video.
Helpful, but not as much as I was hoping
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I specifically purchased this video to learn about the drop spindle; my spindle is a bottom whorl, however, and all of the demonstrations were done with a top whorl. I found some of the tips informative, but the camera angles were quite far back which made demonstration difficult and the colour of the yarn was difficult to see against the background. The video did not help me solve my problem with the bottom whorl drop spindle, but gave me the incentive to keep trying. However, I ended up buying a proper spinning wheel, which is proving much less frustrating that a drop spindle.
Respect the Spindle (DVD)
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In Respect the Spindle: The Video, veteran spinner and spindle aficionado Abby Franquemont shows spinners old and new how to create volumes of incredible yarn with this amazing yet simple tool.
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