{"id":367,"date":"2014-03-13T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2014-03-13T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:59:02","slug":"learning-to-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally succumbed to the lure of spinning and signed up for a drop spindle class taught by my friend Dawn<\/a> and hosted by our local yarn shop, Serial Knitters<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew it would be addictive.\u00c2\u00a0 And I also knew that I didn’t really need another hobby.<\/p>\n

So much for willpower. \u00c2\u00a0Dawn only teaches the class 3-4 times a year, and I had already put it off for two years.\u00c2\u00a0 And she is an excellent spinning teacher.\u00c2\u00a0 About halfway through the four hour lesson, I was absolutely hooked.\u00c2\u00a0 More fiber please!\u00c2\u00a0 I had made one mini-skein and was itching to keep going and make another.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20140119_181843_clr_sm\"<\/a>At the end of class I knew two additional things:<\/p>\n

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  1. I needed a stash of spinning fiber.<\/li>\n
  2. My muscles were going to be very sore the next day.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    My muscles were indeed very sore the next day.\u00c2\u00a0 I felt like I had been hit by a bus.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, there are muscles in the body that are not used for knitting or crochet.\u00c2\u00a0 Who knew?<\/p>\n

    I had left the shop with the humble beginnings of a fiber stash, and once my muscles were somewhat recovered I started to spin again.\u00c2\u00a0 Understanding that I’m still totally addicted, I tried to pace myself this time so as not to repeat the episode of spinning muscle exhaustion.\u00c2\u00a0 For weeks I was mostly successful.<\/p>\n

    Until I got near the end of the fiber supply, that is.\u00c2\u00a0 With the end in sight, and no tedious duties to distract me, I spun on.<\/p>\n

    Then I couldn’t stop until it was plied.\u00c2\u00a0 Many hours later, I had this.<\/p>\n

    \"IMG_20140312_095619_clr_sm\"<\/a>And another bundle of sore muscles.\u00c2\u00a0 But it was so worth it.\u00c2\u00a0 Look at it – I made that!\u00c2\u00a0 (I won’t tell you about running around the house while I waved it triumphantly in the face of every family member present.)<\/p>\n

    The next day I washed it and hung it to dry overnight.<\/p>\n

    \"IMG_20140313_160850_clr_sm\"<\/a>I’m even more proud of it now that it’s evened out a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 It actually looks like yarn.\u00c2\u00a0 I might even knit with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I finally succumbed to the lure of spinning and signed up for a drop spindle class taught by my friend Dawn and hosted by our local yarn shop, Serial Knitters.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew it would be addictive.\u00c2\u00a0 And I also knew … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[44,67,13],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spinning","tag-creativity","tag-spinning-2","tag-wool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}