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Blackbird

  • Joined Jul 2012
A lucky meeting!
« on: November 29, 2012, 11:04:15 am »
I went along to our village craft fair the other day and got chatting to a chap who turns out to be head of the Northants Guild of Spinners and Weavers. I told him I had a few sheep and wanted to weave a peg loom rug with my GFD fleece and learn how to spin my Shetland and Hebridean sheep's wool.

Turns out he comes to our village craft group every Monday, and if I join up, he will bring a drum carder and show me how to create rolags to weave and how to spin using a drop spindle! Am very excited - will be going along next Monday!  :excited: :knit:
Where are we going - and why am I in this handcart?

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: A lucky meeting!
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2012, 11:10:10 am »
Blackbird, thats good news.
I found that when I moved somewhere fairly remote there was a spinners club near to me too.
I am sure you will enjoy it.
Sally
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: A lucky meeting!
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2012, 12:33:55 pm »
Great news!   :thumbsup:  And welcome to the happy band... :knit: (need that :spin: emotiwotsit!!)
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

YorkshireLass

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Just when I thought I'd settled down...!
Re: A lucky meeting!
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2012, 01:45:27 pm »
Hmm interesting, we may cross paths at some point!
Though I have already "specialised" in longdraw, so to speak, once I'm back up and running (illnesses, blah blah blah). Happy carding! I'm useless at it  ::)

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: A lucky meeting!
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2012, 04:10:03 pm »
One of my best sellers were rugs woven from unspun wool, carded on a drum carder.  Wish I still had the equipment to do some more.

 

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