Dakota Designs

Ohhhh A Strauch Finest DRUM CARDER! Well I'm on my way. Dakota Skippers line of designer yarn is just about ready to launch! I'm thinking of "Bodelicious Blends" finely blended, hand spun yarn from Sierra's Spinyard. What do you think??? After the sale of a few items around the house, including a few antique dolls, we placed THE ORDER! Included with this delicious piece of equipment was 3 1/2 lb bags of shetland, and 8 oz of Brown Alpaca. All I need to start blending rich, brown, superfantabulous wool! I can't wait!

OK -- now I know that I am hopelessly addicted to spinning. While at Knitting on the Square a few weeks ago, talking, demonstrating, teaching spinning, someone asked me if I could teach drop spindle spinning. The little gears started to spin (in my head). Hmmmm. Truth is that I only tried it once, with a fairly primitive, made from plywood, drop spindle, and figured you'd have to be CRAZY to want to do this!!! That was a long time ago, and what did I know about spinning -- next to nothing. Now, I'm thinking, that first experience just wasn't right. I didn't like the tool -- it was definitely NOT aesthetically pleasing. I wasn't confident in my ability to draft the fiber -- hadn't even tried spinning on a wheel, and I was trying to figure it out on a hot Summer San Diego day all by myself. So -- off to the computer -- there must be tons of sources for really cool looking drop spindles. Ohhh those Golding spindles are neat -- a little pricey though for a...