I Bought an Antique Spinning Wheel to Spin My Own Thread

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“It is the curse of every crafter’s existence: innocently adopting one craft, entirely unaware of its power to seize you by the throat and proceed to demand that you learn every tangentially related craft until the very prospect of ever experiencing boredom again becomes the remotest impossibility.

Such was the inevitable danger of my hand sewing journey: it was only a matter of time before I’d start to wonder where the materials I work with came from in the first place—and how feasible it would be for me to learn how to make them myself.

It turns out…spinning is a lot more skill-intensive than I anticipated, and the fairy tales are more than a little misleading on the subject. There’s nothing sharp on which to prick one’s finger on these things, for one…

What’s next? Hand weaving? Natural dyeing? Twisting my new linen threads into fine 17th century bobbin lace? The possibilities are endless.”

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