a new handspun hat

Yarn spun on the spindle, nepalese wool (bought) blended with pencil roving (inherited).
Hat knit as an evolving thing (no swatch, planning or pattern).

Rocking and ravelrying

Lieke: thank you for nominating me! I feel hip, suddenly!
(Unless the rockin' refers to a chair in which case it's more grannylike.) Hey, I should nominate somebodies: well it will be Pirkko and Mette. Because they rock.

I've seen so many bloggers referring to ravelry and then I saw on my counter that there was one referral from ravelry to me. So I signed up. And then you can look yourself up and see where your are in the line awaiting invitation, so this is where I am:

• You are #27078 on the list.
• 17328 people are ahead of you in line.
• 53 people are behind you in line.
• 34% of the list has been invited so far

They'll probably be out of beta by the time I get an invite. Let's hope it's worth the wait.

And it works, too!

Any mystery of the spinning wheel seems to be solved - Froukje solved the issue. She recognizes the wheel as the one that were produced late 70ies in a anticapitalistic, antiauthority cooperative workshop in Leeuwarden, where she used to work. I cannot believe sometimes the world being so small.


Het spinnewiel mysterie opgelost - zie Froukjes kommentaar op mijn laatste post.


Rokkens mysterium er løst. I en kommentar på min sidste post fortæller Froukje at hun genkender den som den slags, der sidst i 70erne blev fremstillet i et antikapitalistisk, antiautoritet cooperativt værksted, hvor hun også arbejdede. Jeg kan ikke forstå verden nogle gange er så lille.

And so, here you can see what can be done on an anticapitalistic spinning wheel. My first twisted yarn. Just wait, there's more to come!

Kijk hier maar es wat je op een antikapitalisties wiel maken kunt. Mijn eerste meerdradige garen. Meer volgt!

Og her ser man så hvad der kan laves på en antikapitalistisk rok. Mit første garn med flere tråde. Bare vent, der kommer mere!

What's this?

(sorry but I cannot seem to get this picture to be upright....)

Well some things I do know about it:

it is a spinning wheel (obviously) of the vertical type
it must be kind of modern, given the straight lines in the design
but probably pre-90ies
it was originally bought from a store in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands at the Oostergrachtswal
(a street where my mother, interestingly, lived in her childhood)
it was bought by me, for 10 euro's (I am a lucky girl) in the recycleshop in Drachten, the
Netherlands (the town where my mother lives now)
it works very well, and I'll soon show you some results.



What I do not know, however is:
what is the wheel called, where and how was it made, is it commercially made, do other people have the same wheel, did someone attach the thing for the extra bobbins by themselves (seems to be the case), who owned this wheel before me, why am I already addicted to it and where can I get a raw fleece?