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Spinning Spotlight: Stone Spindle Farm does Alpaca

November 12, 2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

How does Ontario’s own Stone Spindle Farm do alpaca? The short answer is: superbly. In order of my growing admiration since 2021: full marks for the farm’s name; Beth’s warm Instagram account; the raw locks; the rolags & finally, the mill-prepped alpaca top. The raw locks They had me at featuring spindles in a farm […]

Spinning spotlight: cross-arm spindle winding-on

September 7, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

In with a new category! This first “Spinning Spotlight” is on how I use my cross-arm spindles. It gives a few views into the simple word that I describe these photos with in my posts, the cop. Over the years, I have seen & read about how spinners approach this wind-on step. This is just […]