Tag: nostepinne

Making things too hard

On By CarynIn Craft

I excel at overthinking. I have gone through many contraptions to hold my full spindle so it wouldn’t skitter across the floor while I wound the yarn off into a ball. Before I headed off for a walk, I saw that I didn’t have enough fiber to last the walk, and I would be at the point I needed to wind off mid-walk. Throwing caution to the wind, I stuck a rolled up piece of card stock in my pocket and headed out. Within 10 minutes I had spun all my fiber and was faced with winding a nostepinne style ball without any of my spindle holding devices except my hands.

Photo description: winding camel fiber single ply yarn into a nostepinne style ball on a card stock tube from a drop spindle while walking the neighborhood, asphalt in the background

It turned out brilliant. I could rotate the spindle around the tube, keeping consistent tension by lightly gripping the shaft, and slowly rotating the card stock tube. I had been stuck in thinking that the spindle or bobbin needed to be set down in order to control the tension to wind off. I’m glad I broke through the “I have to do it this way” barrier, for this is now my preferred method.

Winding pause

On By CarynIn Craft

I was winding my single spun camel fiber from the drop spindle to a nostepinne style ball, using my fishing swivel chain hanging from a wall hook when life interrupted. I put my makeshift nostepinne (rolled up card stock) onto the wall hook.

Photo description: drop spindle hanging from a wall hook with a partially wound ball on a paper tube on the same hook

It may have stayed that way for a week. May is a busy time. I did eventually get back to it and finish winding.

Photo description: wound ball of camel single spun fiber on a scale reading 42g

It is good to know that I can pause my winding in this way. Life interrupts frequently and my hobbies need to be able to be set aside for an unexpected moment.