©The Dream Spinner

My Aussie Sister Sam - Spinning with her ©Universal Dream Spinner!

2011-10-14T14:24:00.001-04:00

This is my adopted Aussie Sister Samantha e-spinning with her own electronic ©Universal Dream Spinner spinning wheel, using an Ashford Bulky Bobbin &Ashford Jumbo Flyer w/ a slide ring fiber guide, in a YouTube video from the Land Downunder. She's literally on the other side of the world from me, here in central Georgia USA,

So much for those totally BOGUS claims made by those who have never even SPUN one of my ©Universal Dream Spinners that the 7,000 rpm "sewing machine" motors I use on all of them are annoyingly "noisy"!

I've actually HEARD Sam's sweet Justin peacefully snoring while she & I e-visited via Skype till HER wee hours of the morning! Australia's 14 hours AHEAD of us in the states - so SKYPE visits mean that ONE of us is always in the DARK! THANK YOU both for making this video & special thanks to Justin for shooting it! Funny how the Ashford JUMBO Flyer & Bobbin whirling round are far "noisier" than the motor that powers it isn't it? : }
Just think - Samantha has only been spinning just over 5 months or so now & self-taught at that, with only a wee bit of really long-distanced Co-Piloting via SKYPE. Just wish you could SEE the lovely SMILE that comes over Samantha's face when she's spin-spin-spinninnnng all her cares away! With FOUR gorgeous kids - one a brand new two y/o toddler running her about the house AND Sam home-schooling her brood on TOP of it all - She really NEEDS to spin to decompress at night!!! WOW!

Thanks again for making this ©UDS Video of your "DIVA" Sam! It's a wonderful see it for yourself demonstration that I couldn't have done any better if I'd shot it myself! Wishing you & "The DIVA" years of happy spinnings! Teri

Restoring "PANDORA" - Lithuanian Spinning Wheel

2011-10-13T10:33:00.001-04:00

The photo above shows my newly restored "PANDORA" spinning laceweight yarn singles! This after 4 days of near-constant swearing, scraping, cleaning, researching, UN-GLUEING {GAHHHH!!!} & making a few little not-so-spinning Kosher bits & alignment pieces to restore her back to being merrilly spinning again as she'd probably been sadly longing to DO for quite some time!

The photo below is a close-up view of PANDORA's lovely hand-turned Maiden & her Flyer & Bobbin set-up. It's very obvious that she has been repaired several times over the years & was created with all hand crafted parts & pieces. I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover if it were possible to retrace her exact timeline - that her maker used a foot-treadled lathe & handforged chisels to create her intricate turnings. I never could find a "maker's mark" on her & being at least a circa late 1800's Centurian - suspect she is indeed & has always been a one-of-a-kind "one-bobbin wonder"!

The NEXT photo is of PANDORA restored to her gleaming glory once again! STILL have more research to do for more detailed tweaking & re-feeding on her - since she is quite "thristy" & enjoying being "fed" healing & rejuvenating oils again! Ain't she a PRETTY thing tho?!

Spinning Purists will notice the not-so-Kosher repair bits on her & that I did indeed use TWO separate Drive Bands - I HAD to in order to get PANDORA to STOP thowing off the Bobbin's cotton twine Drive Band! So I made an elastic polymer Drive Band for the Flyer - since it needs constant & consistent traction while the wheel "drives" it round & round & the Bobbin needs to be able to "SLIP" on it's cotton non-elastic Drive Band so the spun yarn will consistently be wound onto the bobbin core as it's spun twist into it while being drawn into the Flyer.

There was a LOAD of "Grinding Paste" to be removed - scraped, filed & sanded OUT & off of everything that MOVED on PANDORA. Grinding paste - it the awful thick sticky black goo that forms from ground up wood bits, dirt, minute fibers & forms an abrasive schmutz that accumlates in the works of the wheel, Flyer, Maiden Leathers & the Bobbin when not properly maintained, oiled & cleaned over time. It is also a mother BEAR to get OUT of the Wheel upright support "Forks" - OUT of the Bobbin core - OFF of the Flyer's metal bits & Orifice fiber feed tube & other places it migrates to & renders the wheel unspinnable.

For some reason - one of her previous restorations involved GLUEING her Mother of All {the thing that HOLDS the Maiden {the thing that holds the Flyer & Bobbin} into the wheel table & is SUPPOSED to MOVE backwards to TIGHTEN the Drive Bands & TENSIONING on the fibers while they're being spun - OR using the rounded Tension Screw handle {at the FRONT center portion of the wheel's table - Unscrewed to MOVE the Mother Of All -aka- MOA- BACK towards to wheel to make LESS tension on the Drive Bands AND lighten the DRAW or PULL in of the fibers being spun & wound onto the Bobbin's core... That's basically how you adjust & DRIVE a Double-Drive spinning wheel.

Anyway - her MOA had been working loose over the years & a previous restorer had used something that shot me RIGHT back to my own Grandparent's little house in Charleston, S.C. - where I immediately recognized {once I got the bugger LOOSE & unstuck underneath the MOA wooden bell "cap" & freed it from the wheel's table - was the very identical 30's & 40's counter top laminate with an off-white top & metallic gold flakes in it!!! I think all our grandparents' homes had that VERY same laminated kitchen counter material! Realize I'm pushing 60 here myself - so MY long gone Grands would have placed that material circa 1930's -1940's vintage.

Ohh WHAT to USE to make a NEW set of MOA "flanges" to fill that nearly 1/4" gap - underneath the MOA that prevented it from aligning the Maiden - Flyer & Bobbin grooved Drive Band "Whorls" now??? Well - Ya USE what ya GOT! I happened to look round my former guest BR now mini-shop & caught quick glance of an old clipboard! I mean the ones that LOOK like wood-fiber & HARD as ROCKS! It's really more thin compressed layers of paper & glue slurry that when dried & cured - made that rock-hard near-wood - that was so popular during the Great Depression era when hard-woods & materials all went to the war efforts & no one had money to spare for such luxuries as solid hard-woods!

So - I nearly burnt out my poor Dremel trying to cut - carve & hand-file two of the former "clip-board" rounds into perfect fitting slots for PANDORA's tilted MOA to rest upon & center herself with the wonky spinning WHEEL...

It took me most of the 4 days to clean - scrape - swear & gouge out all the "grinding paste" from the wheel's utpight support "Forks"... This after oiling - cleaning - more oiling & more cleaning. Finally ended up having to hand file down to "clean wood" - then re-oil & finally BASH on the forged iron "crank" side's axle that was anything but TRUE & caused PANDORA's wheel to spin wonky at ONE top of the wheel's movement pitch - where the wooden {Pitman} hooks into the crank to SPIN the wheel when the foot treadle is toed down. JUST at the pivotal {pun intended} moment & forward drive motion!

So - I figured by now - I'd either end up with $140 worth of FIREWOOD - OR - By God - PANDORA would be Spinnable - or BUST! Suffice to say - The Spinning Faes were WITH me on that one - And - PANDORA is spinning beautifully now. I just need to tweak some more to get the tension PULL a bit looser without throwing the Drive Band off the Bobbin every few rounds of the wheel.

For NOW - I don't think I could be much more pleased with how well PANDORA has lived up to her NAME during her mini-refurb despite of her decrepitude and is once again rather like ME - Wrinkled, sagging in places, marred a bit here & there from earning her Battle Scars of Living & moving just a bit wonky... All of which only ADD to her alluring charm! I think this is the beginning of a long & beautiful new relationship together!!!

I have the distinct feeling that PANDORA will NOT be my LAST wooden Double-Drive spinning wheel! Tho SHE was the very FIRST wooden spinning wheel I've ever touched - much less a Double-Drive spinning wheel - Kinda THREW me at first - Cuzzz I couldn't figure out - WHERE the heck to PUT on a BRAKE BAND!!! Sorry - Only experienced SPINNERS will completely understand that one & WHY my PANDORA just LAUGHED at me until I finally figured out WHY she doesn't USE one!

You can see she is much happier all cleaned up & shiny compared to her former piteous dust grimy unspinnabe condition in the previous posting below where she was a Lady In Waiting quietly hidden away in a dusty little corner of small Montana antique shop where my son {THANK YOU Michael} found her there just waiting for me!

Look Who's Coming To My House...

2011-09-29T10:59:00.000-04:00

I can hardly STAND the wait to get my paws on this wheel - I've already named "Pandora"! My Son & his little family were out antiqueing the other day & suddenly - My cell phone alert went off with an IM alert & Ohhh Myyyyy... Look at what he FOUND for Mom!!!

It's a wonderfully preserved Lithuanian style antique spinnng wheel! She was purchased at an estate sale of a very dear older lady who got it as a child from her Great-Great-Grandmother - It dates back somewhere between the late 1800's - early 1900's

There was no maker's mark of any sort on it anywhere - And it has been very obviously hand-tooled & turned since none of the turnings are precisely the same. All the more valuable in my book! Anyway the nice lady at the antique shop wanted $160 for it & Michael walked away with "Pandora" in his hands for only $140!! And he asked me IF I was interested in this wheel??? Ohhh Yahhhh Baby!!!

So now I have only to wait for her to be CAREFULLY packaged and shipped from Montana to central Georgia! Here's hoping those who handle this sweet package do so with ultimate care! More pics to follow once Pandora is home & fed & cleaned up a bit.

Autumn Jumble - SAL Challenge

2011-09-29T10:46:00.001-04:00

Welcome to our Autumn Jumble - Spin-A-Long Challenge on RAVELRY!

Runs September 1st - thru November 30th - 2011. All BABE wheel owners, friends, & cheering section members are welcome to join in the fun on this one! Each entry must be an original BABE Spun yargage in 3 oz lots or better. No previous entries or finished object please! So grab some pretty Fall colours & c'monnn over! You'll have a wonderful time with our merry forum members! Happy Autumnal Spinnings Ya'll! Teri -aka- TheDreamSpinner on RAVELRY!

RAVELRY - "Sum-Sum-Summer Time" - SAL Challenge

2011-02-27T09:52:00.012-05:00

Welcome to our first 2011 Sum-Sum-Summer Time - SAL Challenge on RAVELRY's - I Got Ewe Babe - Owners' Forum! Come & Spin Along with us or feel free to join our raucous Cheering Section! You'll have boatloads of Summery Spinning Fun! Entries must be personally BABE wheelspun finished yarnage, 3 oz. minimum each per entry. No finished projects please or entries submitted to other SAL challenges. Enter as often as you like. Prizes are drawn at random at the end of our SAL.

Meanwhile - Enjoy my favorite 60's music playlist, and remembering your Endless Summer Flashbacks! Hope to see Ewe there! Teri - The Dream Spinner
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Welcome to our RAVELRY - "I Got Ewe BABE" Owner's Group "Spring Fling"- Spin-A-Long Challenge - 2011! We're celebrating all things Spring at RAVELRY - which as you may have heard - is The "Facebook" of FiberCraft Enthusiasts! Spring on over & Get in the Spin with our newest "Spring Fling" Spin-A-Long Challenge!

Cupid's Arrow - SAL Challenge

2011-01-05T15:46:00.007-05:00

And my second entry into "Cupid's Arrow"- SAL Challenge! It's called "Candy Hearts". It's probably the softest shiniest silkiest stuff I've ever blended together & handspun!

Finally - Here's my entry in our "Cupid's Arrow" SAL Challenge for Valentine's Day! It's called "My Purple Heart" named in honor of friends & their families who are courageously battling cancer. It's 9.25 ozs of 2 ply DK yarnage - yielding about 760 yards worth! Just call me an Over-Achiever!

Welcome to the first Spin-A-Long Challenge of 2011! Our Ravelry "I Got Ewe Babe" spinning wheel owner's group is at it again! Spinning up Sweet Nothings inspired by Romanza, Long Lost Loves or New Loves Found. This SAL challenge is open to BABE Owners & Fans - Come and Spin-A-Long or join the Cheering Section! Sure to be lots of FUN for all! "Cupid's Arrrow" SAL Challenge graphics by Gine Jane Johnson & Scrap Orchard. Happy New Year & Happy Spinning! Teri

RAVELRY - "Holly-Dazed" - SAL Challenge

2010-10-19T09:05:00.004-04:00

Happy Holly-Daze - From The Dream Spinner & News from our RAVELRY - Holly-Dazed SAL...

“Holly-Dazed” SAL Challenge Entry number two - “Daddy’s Little Girl”… I chose the grossly expensive {$6 an oz. is grossly expensive for ME anyway} "Orchid Pinks" rovings I’d been saving for three years JUST for something like this! It reminded me of Christmasses at my maternal Grandmother’s & Papa's. It was a tiny little house at the end of a dead end street, abutting mosquito-ridden brackish salt marshes in North Charleston S.C. Both Grandparents are long since GONE & their precious little house & the entire street, swept away entirely by Hurricane Hugo's "party favors".

That particular Orchid pink blend - reminded me of the STUNNING collection of long flowy movie star Peignoir sets my Grandmother had “ONLY for the hospital” dont you know! Such a special treat, I got to wear when I’d grown SO TALL way too soon, that they sort of FIT me with a bit to spare at the still too long hems, serving as a glamorous "train" on those magical gown. I vividly remember feeling very like the Max Glam “Madam Queen” my Beloved Papa {Grandfather} called me while wearing it & swishing around as glamorous as a tall & twigly 5’7” 12 y/o Tomboy possibly could.

Those are about the ONLY happy memories of my entire childhood. Holidays & brief summer vacations whenever we were stationed close enough to GET there, in time spent in that tiny little house with HUGE roiling bright HOT bubble lights, intricate hand-blown German glass ornaments that looked like glittering candies & far too much silver tinsel & itchy "Angel hair" everywhere! I can still "memory taste" the GROSSLY awful, but beauteous ribboned & filled hard candies in Grandmother's fancy antique glass dishes, so carefully scattered about on the buffet with HARD as diamonds in-the-shell mixed nuts & their dangerous nut crackers! Sighhhh - I do SO MISS those sweet innocent Holly Daze! sighhh… holding chin, cupped wistfully in both hands…

Anywayyy - The yarnage is my own custom Louet Roving carded blend of “Orchid Pinks” 50/50 Merino / Silk hand-painted by Material Whirled carded equally with “Pinks” 100% Bamboo by Whimzy Pinzy - then topped off with Paradise Fibers’ nylon “Faux Cashmere” {to DIE FOR by the way!} & brilliant irridescent Icicle Sparkles.

It worked out to 274 yards & 8.75 ozs, finished navajo 3-ply in a heavy "THICK n THIN" WW yarnage - destined for Holiday hand-knitted hats for my precious DIL & Baby Grand - Amara Grace’s second Christmas. WHEEWW!!!

I've been steadily carding & spinning batts like a mad-woman possessed here of late & LOVING IT! If you haven’t TRIED Paradise Fibers’ nylon Faux Cashere - YOU JUST HAVE TO TRY IT! I have NEVER ever put my hands into ANYTHING soooo cushy soffft in my spinning life! It blends like a dream & spins sooo sooo soft & easy! So much for nylon blending fibers! Move UP to the FAUX Cashmere nylon! It’s SO worth every single penny! Come JOIN the now One Million PLUS of us on RAVELRY! Hope you enjoy it & Carry on Spinning Ya’ll! Teri

We're at it again - The BABE Owner's Group at RAVELRY has only JUST ended the Autumn - Back-To-School Spin A Long Challenge & we're already thinking about those crazy Holly-Dazed celebrations coming right around the corner! So grab whatever fibers evoke vivid Holiday memories for you & Let's get bizzzy Spinning Yule... I mean - Ya'll! : } RAVELRY - It's "The FACEBOOK" of Fiber Art enthusiasts! Come JOIN the fun in our "Holly-Dazed - SAL - Challenge"!

2nd Autumn - Back-To-School - SAL Entry

2010-09-23T15:42:00.003-04:00

In our ongoing BABE Owner's Group's - "Back-To-School - Autumn SAL" {spin-a-long} challenge mentioned in the previous posting - THIS lovely stuff is "Woodland Viola" - 100% BFL wool, hand-painted by Miss Babs Fibers. Navajo Plied into a 3 ply lite Bulky gauged yarn - 4.5 oz. skein of Squoooshy Heaven! If you haven't joined RAVELRY yet - "The Facebook for Fibercraft Fanatics" - You really SHOULD! Wait till you see this colourway's cousin - also by Miss Babs Fibers - Called "Iris" - Another gorgeous BFL wool hand-painted in deep purple to violet - to all woodland forest shades of mossy greens! Have more than a POUND of it spun in near laceweight singles to be 3 plied navajo style too! Come JOIN the FUN at http://ravelry.com/ & get your daily dose of fiber fun too!

RAVELRY - BACK-To School - SAL Challenge

2010-08-08T16:37:00.014-04:00

Here's my first entry in the Ravelry - Back-To-School-Autumn SAL Challenge. Aptly named: Early Harvest" - Bluefaced Leicester & Silk blend - handpainted fibers by http://knittyandcolor.etsy.com/.
Yarn sampler skein is 3 ozs. of Navajo 3 ply - DK yarnage. Doesn't it just scream AUTUMN?
Come join us on RAVELRY - It's the "FACEBOOK" of all things fibercraft!

Who's up for a Back-To-School - Spin-A-Long Challenge??? Tho it's still hot as HADES here in Central Ga. the kids have gone back to school again already & we're dying for a cool crisp SNAP of an Autumnal chill in the air! So at RAVELRY which has been referred to as the "Facebook for Fiber Crafters"... we're hosting an Autumn-themed "Back-To-School - SAL Challenge" thru October 15th - 2010. With tons of Spinning, Fibercraft fairs, & Fiber shows coming up soon all over the country - what better way to inspire others to TRY the timeless gentle fiberart of Hand-Spinning than by spinning up brilliant Fall coloured yarnage & Spinning it in public if possible? Imagine crisp brilliant leaves waving wildly on bool Fall breezes, or crunching underfoot in damp mossy woodlands. Dream of crackling firesides, snuggling underneath handspun cozy afghans with steaming hot spiced Apple Cider & a brand new BOOK & lose yourself in the stolen hours of Autumn evening respites... Are ya feelin me here yet??? Grab some incredible Fall coloured spinning fibres du jour, that bring it all home to your heart & mind's eye. Tweak & tune up up those spinning wheels & snap up your favorite Spindles or inertial fed ©Sling-Blade Handspinners & Let's spin up some spicey Autumnal majick ya'll!

2010-08-05T12:53:00.003-04:00

At her suggestion I give you - Sarah's own http://www.knittyandcolor.etsy.com/ - "Jelly Beans" - custom-dyed in both a 100% Merino wool top & "Jelly Beans lite" - Merino & Bamboo blend! Sarah has been an ANGEL about dyeing up my picky ticky colourway requests - So when the 100% Merino “Jelly Beans” 4 oz. roving arrived in the expected usual retinal fusing brilliant colourway - I was THRILLED to no END! Then came the {gullllp} really tricky part… Trying to reproduce the very same deeply brilliant vibrant retinal BURN “Jelly Beans” in a Merino-Bamboo blend… It’s STILL quite amazing as you can SEE in the lower handspun yarnage it produced in the photo. But it wasn’t QUITE that retinal scorch I was really hoping the blended fibers would produce. But then Bamboo won’t absorb dye in the same dyeing processes as wool or nearly as deeply… So = the paler Jelly Beans-Lite version was the result. Still HAPPY - but it lacked the BURRRNNN... The dyed tops were PREPPED prior to spinning a bit differently too. The 100% vibrant Merino JB - was spun after splitting the roving into 4ths lengthwise, & spinning the entire solid colour sequence straight along the {1/4 width}roving strip length. Thus the specific clearly defined vibrant hues of the Navajo 3-plied lace weight singles yarnage it produced in the top of the photo above. The Merino-Bamboo "Jelly Beans - Lite" blend - was spun after layering on each single colour - of the intact roving width array. IE: a single roving strip of each of the five colours - layering one colour over another - while using my Louet Roving Carder to form lofty open blended Batts. That really fluffed things UP & made for a far more diffuse colourway in my laceweight singles - which I then used the Navajo 3 ply finger-chaining technique for a perfectly balanced 3 ply yarnage, as shown in the lower mini-skein sample of about 2 ounces worth after spinning TWO of the first carded four batts from the initial 4 oz. of "Jelly Beans-Lite" roving. We're calling it "Lite" only because the brilliant identical Jelly Beans hand-painted dyeing - resulted in a paler version of the dingle Merino fiber roving - vs. the Merino & Bamboo blend. Both yarns were spun using my ©Sling-Blade Handspinner - that I can wind on about 450 yards or so of laceweight singles with a single “blade”. Way more capacity than any other comparable hand-spinner like it’s design.

The finished yarns are BOTH sofffft to the skin & have that incredible soft lofty SQUOOOSH factor I only seem to be able to spin & ply using the finger-chaining Navajo Plying method. Otherwise - I consistently end up with a fingering to lite sport weight 2 ply yarnage that feels wonderful & has the elastic fiber “memory” once steamed & fulled - but is a bit more tightly spun & makes for a very uniformly bumpaged yarnage - More of a worsted look & feel than the lofty woollen handspun I get with a Navajo 3 ply method that will produce a DK sportweight to a light WW yarn gauge after steam-fulling to set the twist. I’m in the process of spinning up the last two of the initial first 4 batts of the Jelly Beans lite on a DIY supported hand-spindle. I plan to ply 2 singles together to see how that colourway & yarnage comes out. More pics to follow & further experimental results.

Sometimes -Ya just GOTTA bite the bullet & PLAY with your luxury fibers to SEE how using different fiber prepping & varying your spinning methods looks firsthand! In other words - It ain't comin' from someone else's how-to "book".

Sorry for the long-winded story saga - but Sarah kinda asked me to splain the differences & methods used in this experimental Jelly Bean Saga we’re working on togther. Hope you enjoy it - Teri

2010-07-31T10:59:00.003-04:00

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Latest Spindlings & Resultant Yarnage...

2010-05-27T14:35:00.006-04:00

Just finished spinning these two lovelies from http://greenwoodfiberworks.etsy.com/ - The top colourway's a 60%/40% Merino / Tencel blend called "Enchanted" the lower colour is an extraction called "Amethyst" Carolyn custom dyed for me. They're just shiny as silk & ultra soffttt! Finally decided to ply them together & the resultant yarnage is stunning!!! Worked up to about 845 yards of a DK 2-ply & is drying on my skein dryer as you read. Carolyn says she now has the ability to offer them in a BFL-Bamboo blend. Do yourself a favor & try some of her lovelies soon! More pix coming later... Happy Spinning!

New from ©TDS-Creations - BABE - Treadle-Locks

2010-04-07T09:22:00.014-04:00

I've come up with the CURE for BABES Fiber Garden's Fiber-Starter - Production & BABE Bulky series {round pvc pipe frames only } treadled spinning wheels, suffering from annoying "Wandering Treadles Syndrome". That acutely PAINFUL surprise problem, when the treadle pedal base clamps on BABE round piped frames, abruptly JUMP OFF tiny panhead screw "tracks" or treadle channel guides - all but DISLOCATING your HIP joints, slipping suddenly & violently LATTERALLY or completely OFF the wheel frame base entirely! A picture paints a thousand words & this one has far less than half that! Custom made to order, simple, nearly invisible - They just plain WORK - You'll wonder WHY you ever put up with side slipping treadles when you try my PVC "Treadle-Lock" clamps! Works with Single - Double-Treadle or the wider BABE Two-Footer Treadles.

The Joy Of Handspinning.com - Website

2010-01-14T10:24:00.002-05:00

Mouse OVER & CLICK on the subject header above - To visit TheJoyOfHandspinning.com website! They have wonderful information & spinning technique videos! Their $14.95 Joy Of Handspinning interactive CD is more than worth every penny for Beginner - Experienced Spinners! This was among the first places I came to when I began teaching myself to spin! Enjoy! Teri

SpinOff Magazine - Fiber Resource Listings - Fall 2009

2010-01-11T09:33:00.002-05:00

Mouse OVER & CLICK the title link above - Wondering WHERE to GET your hands on Luxury Spinning Fibers, at the best prices & the very BEST quality America has to offer??? This is a comprehensive luxury fiber supplier & vendor resource listing courtesy of SpinOff Magazine - Interweave Press for their Fall-2009 Fiber resource directory. Here you'll find just about ANY Luxury spinning fiber resource your heart can dream of! Sign up for SpinOff Magazines' free newsletter for comprehensive Spinning & fiberarts resources & information that knows no rival - anywhere - at any price! BUY American - BUY HANDMADE!

CD Spindles - Spin-Off

2010-01-10T15:16:00.001-05:00

DIY CD Spindles - Spin-Off - MOUSE OVER & CLICK on the title heade for a FREE pdf. file DESTRUCTIONS on how to make your own DIY Spindle from cds! I suggest trying to make them FIRST using mini-DVDS instead - Since std. 5 inch diameter CDs are rather HEAVY for Beginner Spinners in my experience.

DVD Preview: Drafting - The Long and Short of It by Abby Franquemont - Spin-Off

2010-01-09T15:45:00.002-05:00

MOUSE OVER & CLICK directly on the subject header above to be taken to the SpinOff site at Interweave Press to watch this Spinning Technique Video demonstration & LOTS more! DVD Preview: Drafting - The Long and Short of It by Abby Franquemont - Spin-Off

Navajo Plying - Spinning Technique

2010-01-09T15:36:00.004-05:00

MOUSE OVER & CLICK directly on the subject title header above to be talen to the Hand-Spinning - Navajo Plying Technique video demonstration courtesy of SpinOff Magazine & Interweave Press featuring Sarah Anderson demonstrating an easy method of making a finished 3 ply yarn from a single ply of handspun - using a basic crochet finger-chaining method called Navajo Plying: Sarah Anderson - Navajo Plying - Spin-Off

How to spin on a drop spindle - Spin-Off

2010-01-08T09:56:00.008-05:00

That's a photo of my very FIRST foray into Hand-Spinning - Two days into opening my Learn To Spin Kit which included the wool roving, the Top- Whorl Spindle shown & a copy of "SpinIt!" by Lee Raven with LOTS of BIG CLEAR photos! Want to LEARN how to SPIN your own luxury fiber yarns too???

MOUSE over & CLICK directly on the subject header above to be taken straight to the demonstration video at Courtesy of SpinOff Magazine & Interweave Press. For those who've expressed an interest in learning to Spin your own luxury fiber yarns - There's TONS of wonderful free video demos & printable PDF Basic Spinning Information available at SpinOff Magazine - & courtesy of Interweave Press. Please take the time to browse their site & when you're ready to take the plunge into Handspinning - I'm MORE than happy to help coach live & free via Skype! All YOU need is a basic handspindle & some spinning fiber to get you started! Enjoy & I hope I inspire you to try your hands at the extremely rewarding & relaxing age old fibercraft, click on the video link title & enjoy seeing for yourself how EASY & rewading this ancient craft can BE: How to spin on a drop spindle - Spin-Off

Respect the Spindle: The Video - Preview - Spin-Off

2010-01-08T09:41:00.001-05:00

Mouse OVER & CLICK Directly over the subject title header above to be taken straight tothis video demsontration & spinning information - Courtesy of SpinOff Magazine & Interweave Press: Respect the Spindle: The Video - Preview - Spin-Off

A Homemade Zucchini Spindle - Spin-Off

2010-01-08T09:38:00.001-05:00

A Homemade Zucchini Spindle - Spin-Off I don't care WHO you ARE - Or whether you have ANY interest whatsoever in Spinning - This is just FUNNY!

Where to Begin - Or - Becoming a New “PREPPER” Primer

2010-01-02T10:35:00.006-05:00

Adopting a Common Sense Prepper Lifestyle... Our Story... We realized early on in our 26 year+ marriage being self-employed HVAC contractors with only seasonal regularly paying work & a household teeming with healthy, constantly hungry kids - Our finances have always been totally dependent on the economy & local weather extremes. We HAD to learn to rat-hole just about everything we consumed in non-perishable foodstuffs & common household items - Just about ANYWHERE that we could FIND to stuff them. Honey & I WERE those ODD ones who took BOTH vehicles grocery shopping every other month & bought $800-$900 worth of non-perishable groceries, meats, & household goods in family-sized lots - but ONLY on SALE of course & on Double Stamp Day at our grocery stores, cleaning out at least TWO registers' worth of good ol’ S&H Green Stamps at one wallop - Ahhh... DO you still REMEMBER those days??? Later joining the FIRST local SAM'S Club as Small Business Members,& getting a much better discount than other members - several of our Senior family members instantly became “our employees” so that THEY could also enjoy the SAME discount volume purchasing power that WE did & still DO - even now that the kids are grown & Olds have passed on & there's JUST the Two of us Honey & I! I think tho newly but WIDE "awakened" to the current perilous political & socio-economic times our country's facing - We don't so much fear being PERSONALY ATTACKED in our beds per se - But we ARE realistically VERY concerned about saving EVERY precious & too few expendable penny & keeping well-stocked ahead in everyday consumable goods, medicines & first aid supplies up to & including those for more than minor injury items since I served many years ago on volunteer Rescue Squads & First Responders. We keep stockpiles of standard household supplies, self-prepared & packaged foodstocks for OUR healthier diets! Wheewww... To those ends, we enjoy sharing what we've learned in common sense stockpiling techniques & willingly share them with those not yet used to thinking PREPPING - much beyond re-charging the batteries overnight on all their electronic cell phones, iPods, PSP' s - Berry's Wii's & other idiot toys they just SWEAR they just could NOT LIVE WITHOUT! Can you say - EMF??? POOF - Electonica, & Toys instantly DEAD & GONE! So in the spirit of returning to a more self-reliant lifestyle - I have TWO NESCO 18 Qt. ovens and 20 qt. stock pots to make & freeze ahead HUGEMONSTROUS batches of thick & meaty hyper nutritious soups, chili’s, stews, or two pork loins at once, smoked hams, roasted brined turkey chests & drumsticks, Italian Meat Loaves etc. We prepare en masse when the makings are on sale or fresh from our "yardens" THEN freeze ahead in single meal serving sized Gladware for Honey & I. So in 30 minutes or LESS we can re-heat & eat any number of our favorite meals with no mess to speak of. LESS wear & tear on these aging bodies of ours & particularly MY disabled one! We keep the kitchen freezer stuffed with things we regularly use SOONER than later & a huge upright freezer in the laundry room for more long-term frozen food storage. $$$ Savings HINT: If your freezers aren’t kept FULL all the time - FREEZE clean gallon milk jugs of potable filtered WATER in them to help insulate & make the freezer work MUCH more energy efficiently - Plus keep another fresh water supply source readily avaialable!!! In our case, our icemaker bit the dust years ago & it’s just simpler for Honey to pick up FREE coolers FULL of that wonderful filtered water “hotel ice cubits” on his daily rounds in town or whenever close to one of our HVAC contractor supply houses, & store it inside the crud loads of plastic grocery bags we save just for such things! INSTANT re-stocks of ice cubes & LESS energy $$$’s spent running a partially empty FREEZER! Inside a HUGE pantry / storage utility room in our garage - We store our stocks of non-perishables, jarred fruits, coffee, rice, grains & cereals & other staple items, canned goods, several condensed soup bases, tomato pastes, dry goods like beans, peas etc, & sauces et al... lined up on floor to ceiling steel shelving units on every available wall space. So at a glance we can SEE whatever we NEED to re-stock, & can & DO virtually LIVE off our stores for months during periods of non-paying or regular income. NICE weather in our case means - WE‘RE STONE BROKE!!! So we live comfortably a la the Ant vs the Grasshopper of Aesop's Fables! Everything OLD is coming round NEW again Ya'll! We employ above ground berms in mini yardens everywhere & raised planters across our entire patio & extensions using HUGE plastic window planters & 5 gal. laundry soap & birdseed buckets with drilled out bottoms for excellent drainage, perched atop - ummm let's just call 'em "liberated" thick plastic commercial milk crates, to help DETER undesirable poaching wild critters from the lake across the street from our home. I grow vegetables, aromatics & culinary herbs atop rows & rows of double-stacked cinder blocks to raise the planters across landscape ties so that even using forearm support crutches I can still fairly easily maneuver around them. I have a "Yarden" dedicated food processor - That we grind up all unused but not fresh enough to consume green products we didn't eat the week before, rescued from the fridge veggie rotter drawer, along with used coffee grounds, banana peels & veggie skins, rinsed eggshells for natural calcium & to help promote great drainage in our planters & whirl all that up into an instant "Green Goddess" Alchemy Tea that we continually "dose" & “re-charge" our spent Wunder Soil constantly with - even when sleeping over the winter which only lasts about 15 minutes in central GA. ; } I also make huge batches {in 2 gallon lots} of my own "Fire & Spice" Cajun seasoning mix - something akin to a DIY version of Longhorn's Steak House’s Prairie Dust - that's just terrific IN & on everything but cereals & desserts, so far anyway. ; } I also make a heart-healthy no-fry oven-crispy breading mixture that will beat ANY panco bread crumb mixture you ever tasted & you'll NEVER MISS FRIED chicken nuggets or fish filets again! I'll include that recipe later if you like! I mix it in one of the 18 Qt Nesco pans & we FREEZE the better part of it in HDPE plastic containers until smaller jugs of it are used up in the fridge! It is quite simply TO DIE FOR & both heart & diabetic diet LEGAL!!! Honey is a 63 y/o heart patient & I'm a 57 y/o Type-II Diabetic & fairly mangled Arthritic - So we've also adopted & specialized in perfecting a VERY healthy diet & health-maintenance program in self-preservation. Especially when 12 years ago - our STATE FARM health insurance premium SHOT up over $1000 a month - JUST for LOUSY Hospitalization for Honey & my coverage - WITH a whopping $2500 deductible per occurrence upfront out of pocket expense, THEN only paid 80% of ONLY what happened IN hospital! NO coverage whatsoever for Rx medications, or even a Post-Op follow-up Doctor’s office visit! So we weren’t DROPPED per se - We were simply PRICED OUT of ANY affordable healthcare insurance!!! So now we are completely aware that we are TOTALLY on our OWN until Honey turns 65 in ONLY TWO MORE YEARS & finally qualifies us for whatever if anything’s left of Medicare - which I’m personally bloody DETERMINED to LIVE long enough to BREAK their cheap @$$ BACKS - IF I can just make it that far! But don’t even let me get started on that one! Anyway - When Honey had his mild warning shot heart attack 5 years ago & subsequent THREE arterial STENTS installed without having to crack open his CHEST to DO it - We figured out VERY quickly that $600 a MONTH for just his MAINTENANCE meds for the rest of his life - meant that NEITHER of us could afford to SMOKE or EAT STUPID again! Hence the RUSH to find THE perfect healthy heart legal & Diabetic “friendly” DIET that didn‘t taste or look like wall plaster! I couldn’t expect HIM to NOT eat STUPID & STAY on our new diet if I didn’t go on it with him TOO! Well… That’s another entirely different adventure quest I’ll fill you in on in one of the next postlings. Meanwhile Gang… Take a long hard LOOK & take inventory round your home & household supply stockpiles. Identify WHAT stays & your Must-Go’s List - Make a DATE to have a massive THROW OUT PARTY & have a garage sale or donate anything you no longer have USE for to your nearest Rescue Mission. Toss out or donate to a local food bank ANY & ALL junk “foods” with anything in it that you CANNOT PRONOUNCE or recognize as a natural food source. You probably shouldn’t EAT IT if you can't PRONOUNCE it! Get RID of anything in the transfats lineup & really familiarize yourselves with FOOD LABELS transfats, saturated fats & Cholesterol counts!!! You'll find yourself saving Beau Coup $$$ & becoming MUCH HEALTHIER overall! You’ll also discover that regularly having a house wide THROW OUT PARTY is extremely LIBERATING & catch yourself marveling at ALL your NEW Re-claimed living /storage SPACE! THEN start making your lists of the items you’d NEED to just cover the most basic needs of your entire household for a minimum period of about 1-3 months to begin with! Start your methodical gatherings slowly but steadily & soon you’ll know the comfort of being PREPARED! I also heartily suggest employing something to HELP you keep track like some sort of logbook or a filing card reference system… Get those heavy duty steel shelves set up & LABEL every items’ row, so you'll KNOW what you’re LOW on & WHEN it’s time to re-stock at a glance! Make up a VERY basic 72 hour Survival Kit - Grab & Go Emergency Bag with very basic first aide supplies - water - food, multi-tool knife, parachute or heavy nylon cording, radio, LCD flashlights & batteries, fire-steels or water-proof matches, basic camping & food service gear, small canned meat / fish tins & energy bars, all necessary & OTC meds, space blankets etc for every member of your family & keep it handy or in your home &/or car trunk & rotate the contents before expiration dates. Include glycerine / alchohol based hand-sanitizer gels which in a pinch also makes an INSTANT Fire-Starter! Be prepared to have your friends & some family members laugh at your odd new “Prepper Eccentricities” & take it & them in your stride. Rest assured - THEY’LL be the very FIRST ONES on YOUR doorstep with empty mouths & hands - When / if the WORST SHTF situation happens! You’ll soon discover that adopting this lifestyle isn’t a hardship & WILL SAVE YOU $$$ when it becomes habit! Use it UP & MAKE IT LAST - Join & follow online PREPPER Networks across the nation & your state APN {American Prepper Network" organizations. Quick Links to those are on the right side of this blog. Here's a wonderful site for obtaining unmodified / hybridized seeds & GROWING guides to help you start your "Victory Gardens" at: http://www.heirloom-organics.com/guide/organicgrowingguides.html Wishing you Health & the COMFORT of BEING a PREPPER & PREPARED for WHEN / IF TSHTF! More information will be posted & please feel free to ask questions. Please note that this is a family friendly site & ALL comments will be in English please & moderated before posting. You can see more of my interests, photos, postings & such here: http://bz304.multiply.com/journal Be well - Be Happy & Be Prepared! Teri

What's A "PREPPER" & WHY you NEED to KNOW...

2009-12-31T15:12:00.006-05:00

What's a "PREPPER" You may Ask... & WELL you SHOULD... These are to say the least, frightening, uncertain & disconcerting times. People are "waking up" all over the Country & coming to the stark realization that relatively casual care free living as we once knew it - is OVER! It's been long enough since 911 - that we SHOULD have recovered as a nation & yet our nation is still running on only barely "controlled" chaos & paranoia. We therefore join those who have become politically "awakened" to this new sense of national urgency & the growing deterioration of our most basic American value systems, once assured us by our nations Founding Fathers & guaranteed us by the United States Constitution. In networking & preparing ourselves & those we love for the utter sociatal breakdown that may well soon ensue as joblessness worsens & our economy fails beyond any sense of reasonable repair in the remainder of our forseeable lifetime. To that end - We're networking with & sharing & practising those generationally passed on basic survival tips & the self-reliance tricks of our Great-Grandparents & those who survived The Great Depression & wars, by growing their own Victory Gardens, bartering seeds, & trading durable goods & services with their neighbors vs. the virtually worthless $$$ U.S. currency $$$ we're used to. Since $$$ will soon no longer be a viable source of American "currency" if things with our economy do NOT turn right round & FAST... We will be forced to depend on our own basic survival techniques, stocks, & defenses. "Preppers" are a national network of peaceful Patriotic people who are sharing our knowledge of saving for a rainy day - or in this case perhaps several MONTHS without such basic services as electricity - communications venues, or normal avenues of everyday "commerce"available to us. And WHEN / IF it happens - We will NOT be WARNED in ADVANCE! You & your Family WILL therefore need: These Survival BASICS on hand: Food - Shelter - Water & perhaps even some means with which to defend yourself & yours. We are NOT talking Terroristic means as bent by the complete misinterpretation of public mainstream media twists. We LOVE our country & CRY our for what's been done to her good name in the world. We are simply American Patriots - Proud & Free! We fly our flags over our homes night & day while our best & brightest are sent repeatedly to fight & die in pointless unwinnable wars against people with absolutely NOTHING to LOSE. We are NOT "Terrorists" - or - "Supremacists" or any other dark tilt mainstream media has painted upon us. I'm just a 57 y/o Grandmother who fears for my own national security - health & family's basic welfare & well-being! THAT does NOT make ME a "Terrorist" - It means - I have eyes, ears, & a mind & USE them. Now - All that said - Do YOU have small space food & gardening tricks & secrets? Or do you do vegetable seed collecting /swapping, or preserving or canning non-perishable foodstuffs - or smoked meats & such skills - IF in fact- the WORST absolutely happened TOMORROW - How LONG would your family be able to hold out on your own? If you want to SEE a near PANIC & immediate RUN on grocery stores here in Central Ga & CLEANED OUT in hours of BREAD - MILK & WATER - Just THREATEN them with a CHANCE of a SNOW FLURRY!!! I kid you NOT!!! Have YOU candles or dry-protected matches to light them with? Do you have flint steels & fire-starting skills? Have you Oil lamps & stocks of parrafin oil to resupply them? Have you packaged a BLACKOUT EMERGENCY KIT - with at least a 3 days supply of potable fresh or bottled water {1 gallon - per person - per day} - food - medicines - blankets & such for every member of your family? Do you have a bag of kitty litter in your trunk to throw under icy tires for TRACTION in a surprise or in our case - FREAK Winter Storm? Portable radios & LED Flashlights {which don't FAIL in extreme COLD} & FRESH batteries or a hand-crank powered emergency radio / light or emergency torches? DO you have your most important papers / documents stored & wrapped to toss into your EMERGENCY KIT BAG at a moment's notice? Have you any plan set up to commumicate with - or signal to GATHER your loved ones in the event of a total "What IF" disaster? THIS is what "PREPPERS" are all about. Not making war against our fellow man or threatening our govt. Just being PREPARED - Just in case the worst of the unforseeable worst happens & our families are totally dependent on ONLY what we have stored away for JUST such an event. REMEMBER - KATRINA - 911 & other such disasters - Your GOVERMENT WILL NOT BE THERE TO HELP YOU - NOR ANY OF THEIR AGENCIES! YOU WILL BE ON YOUR OWN! Are YOU Prepped & READY for a disaster of such proportions? Ending on a more personal note & faux paux apology - Apparently - I posted the WRONG links & a misplaced banner to these folks' blog & sites earlier today - So please check out the following links I was sent by correction with my apologies to anyone offended: http://whatisaprepper.blogspot.com/ or http://www.imaprepper.org/ or http://www.imaprepper.com/ And for more information about the American Preppers Network - Please visit - http://americanpreppersnetwork.net/

New "Dream Spinner's" Group on FaceBook

2009-12-28T17:44:00.005-05:00

BREAKING NEWS - We're trying something NEW on FaceBook... Opening a new group called "Dream Spinners" dedicated to other intrepid Independent Fiber Junkies, Luxury Fiber Suppliers, Dyers, Spinners & Spinning wheel, toys & tool designers. We invite You to post links to your handcrafted Spinning & fiber offerings, Etsy shops, how-to video links etc etc etc... Come help us shameless Fiber-Junkies & Spinning Enablers, showcase the BEST of smaller home-based fibercrafting businesses! A perfect one-stop venue for those who may have wanted to TRY Hand-Spinning but perhaps were unaware that there are specialty needs Spinning product designers ready & willing to help "feed" novice & expert Spinners addictions alike, with offerings made exclusively by & FOR Spinners & Fibercrafters! Hope you'll stop by & see what we up to soon!

Consider this: - Luxury fiber ie: alpaca, merino wool & other animal fibers & natural plant fiber yarns are GROSSLY EXPENSIVE to purchase commercially prepared, even to create you OWN knitted - crocheted or woven garments & hand-made gifts with. BUT - SPINNING your OWN luxury fiber yarnage - will in the end cost you LESS than purchasing cheap synthetic yarns such as acrylics sold in places like Wally World for the convenience fibercrafter.

And they're naturally warmer in Winter - Cooler in Summer - softer & far more durable with some simple care & proper off-season storage methods than those chemically created fibers. If you'd like to know more about Hand-spinning & supplies - I am more than ready to help in any way I can! Email Thedreamspinner@gmail for details!

ROVERS - Group on RAVELRY

2009-06-01T17:31:00.030-04:00

For other Disabled Fibercrafting fanatics - who like myself deal every day with mobility issues, limited range of motion, nerve damage, fine motor skill loss, neuropathy, and / or other chronic pain challenges, that celebrate our Kindred Spirits & Creative if rather Unusual workarounds - There's a new favorite Ravelry group Forum - Who truly "FEEL YOU" - without explantation or any NEED for one, called ROVERS! Come & check them out! You'll instantly be welcomed "HOME"! Join RAVELRY & join in the Fibercrafting FUN! It's NOT just for those with the luxury of being perfectly "normal" ... http://ravelry.com/ Happy Spinning Ya'll! Teri

What Our Universal Dream Spinner Customers Say...

2008-04-03T19:46:00.030-04:00

From: RoInGa I'm SO pleased with my purchase from TheDreamSpinner!!! It's a sweet machine, and everything is so well thought-out. It comes with a great instruction manual and accessories, and best of all, customer service. Totally recommend this seller and this machine. I'm already having a ball! Thanks, Teri!!! From: Kattnutt:This IS awesome! I can't say enough about the Dream Spinner - It works so nicely - I am spinning lace weight on it right now & what a beautiful machine! I hope someone buys the other spinner I have up for sale, so I can get another WooLee Winder, cause the one I have is staying on the Dream Spinner! Wow - it does everything and is so versatile! I am still reading the nice book that came with it and looking over the things in the package. I am so glad I got it and it's less than half the price of the other electric spinners at full price! I sure am going to try to sell this machine {to our guild members} when I go to the guild with it What a nice piece of work it is Thanks a million for suggesting it! Pat From: Laticia M. Subject: This is awesome! Hi Teri! This spinner is fantastic! It is so smooth and quiet, & ingenious in how it is able to accommodate all kinds of flyers and bobbins. I truly am impressed and feel it is worth every penny I spent! You truly have a tremendously wonderful and affordable product and I do hope the word gets out quickly at how seriously good this spinner is and all it is capable of doing! I have spun on three other name brand spinners, the Ashford, the Roberta Electronic Ertoel, & the Butterfly Womack Spinner. The Butterfly was fantastic too, but yours is half the price and spins just as well as the Butterfly. I disliked the Ertoel intensely, it was a bit noisy & the tension had way too much pull & because there's only one sliding hook on the flyer & no way, at the time did I know of putting another hook on the other flyer arm, so that you can lace the yarn back and forth to ease drag, I had to sell it, I simply could not use it. I actually like a lot of tension, but that was like reigning in a wild horse. The Ashford was good too but it made the yarn jiggle a lot, I had to put a small fitting into the orifice hole to cut down on that. I mean, they were all good spinners, but they are twice or three times what yours costs, and, you had to have its own bobbins and flyers. Thats what is so awesome about yours! If someone just buys the Universal Dream Spinner - Frame Only Kit & a Deluxe Power Supply w/ Dimmer Pkg like I did, to fit my Louet Spinning Wheel Flyer & Bobbins, then they can use what they already are likely to have at home! After all, you can only spin on one wheel at a time, right? I found out about you while I was surfing through Etsy, drooling for all the fiber I wanted to buy, lol, & spindles!, & just typed in "Spinning Wheel" and found your UDS ad! All for now, I want to go play some more with my new toy! Big Hugs To You, Laticia Click the "RAVELRY" icon below & come see the BEST Spinning / Knitting/Crocheting / Weaving / Fiber Dyeing - FiberArtist's gathering place online - or- anywhere!!!

Introducing - The New "Sling Blade" Handspinners!

2008-02-07T16:43:00.013-05:00

Introducing my newest & most unique Hand-Spinner's gadget - The "©Sling Blade" Hand-spinner! Modeled loosely after children's antique clacker / noisemaker toys, my © Sling Blade spins up gorgeous fine gauged or lace weight yarnage singles. Since there's literally ZERO "tension" stress as it's being spun, the fibers literally FLOAT in mid air while "twist energy" is spun into them. Using the simple "Park & Draft" spinning technique, YOU control precisely how MUCH "twist energy" is spun INTO the yarn & HOW FAST! It's simply UN-SPUN if you find your hand-spun yarn twisted too tightly - by slinging the "blade" in the reverse direction - until the over-twisting has been corrected! Besides being FUN to USE - My "©Sling-Blade" will hold up to 300-400 yards+ of fine gauged yarn singles on ONE "BLADE"! No other ergonomically designed hand-spinner like mine can hold anywhere NEAR that much yarnage wound onto one single blade or spindle-type wind-on yarn carrier! To PLY your handspun singles - You simply suspend your filled "©Sling-Blades" from included Suspension Hardware that comes with each set & PLY them as fast as you can spin while off-loading your plied yarn onto treadled spinning wheel bobbins, or an Electronic Spinner or, into a long Navajo type or very long spindles! They are also very handy for the Navajo plying technique - where you take a single yarn strand or ply & spin it into a lovely 3-ply by using an exaggerated "finger-chaining" technique... making an even succession of pulled long drawn-out loops of yarn off the suspended "blade" & pulling them back THROUGH each other as you lightly spin in the opposite direction that your singles were spun in! Each of my "©Sling -Blade" spinners are personally hand crafted in oak hardwoods & frost-ground plexi-glass for durability & balanced for nearly effortless spinnnability! JUST the thing for those of us with fine motor skill challenges, limited range of motion, or mobility issues! OR - for tucking into a spinning bag to take along while waiting at Doctor's offices or soccer practice for your kids! If you can SLING a STRING in a circular motion - You CAN Spin wonderful yarnage almost instantly with my "©Sling Blade"! Experience for yourself JUST how easily & FUN spinning your own luxury fiber yarn almost any where can BE! Watch my demo video & then visit my ETSY shop for even more deliciously unique spinning temptations. Click on the little red yarn ball banner & LQQK for ME as "TheDreamSpinner" on the BEST FiberArts Gathering Place on the net!

Electronic Universal Dream Spinner - BABES Package Deal

2007-11-12T19:42:00.018-05:00

It's OFFICIAL!!! My own "Electronic ©UNIVERSAL Dream Spinner" is a proud new member of the Babes Fiber Garden - LLC - Winter 2007 - Product Line! BABES - Electronic ©Universal Dream Spinner Package Deal as shown above for just $470.36 + S&H! Available exclusively in this configuration at: http://www.babesfibergarden.com/ - or Order directly for much LESS thru my ©Dream Spinner Creations ETSY shop at http://thedreamspinner.etsy.com/ The Universal Dream Spinner electric spinner is compatible with all standard BABE Fiber Garden's Spinning Wheel Flyers & Bobbin assemblies , Louet, Ashford & Kromski to name a few & spins in either Bobbin-Lead or Flyer-Lead options & is compatible with the first fully automatic self-winding WooLee Winder flyers & bobbins at: http://www.babesfibergarden.com/

For those who already have their own spinning wheel flyers & bobbins - We offer the ©SUniversal Dream Spinner - Frame Only Kit for just $350. You'll need to order an electronic motor & pedal group option & other accessory items available separately. Meanwhile I hope you'll enjoy watching me spinning with the Electronic ©Universal Dream Spinner shown w/ the NEW BABES Fiber Garden - Flyer-Lead option video below!

This is a video demonstration of me spinning with an earlier Electronic "Universal Dream Spinner" prototype model using the latest BABES "Flyer-Lead" spinning Flyer option.

Dream Spinner & the Babes ~ Slide Show

2007-03-21T10:06:00.003-04:00

At last A.U.T.U.M.N. !!! Spinner's hands have been furiously Spinning up glorious rainbows of luxury handspun yarns, to knit, weave, or crochet into marvellous handspun creations keeping loved ones cozy thru the long cold Winter. While you're reading, please scroll thru the YouTube videos along the right side column of my blog & hit the PLAY buttons to enjoy the soul-stirring music of my friend Celtic Harpist Lisa Lynne Franco http://www.lisalynne.com & her performance partner master flautist - Medicine Wind's George Tortorelli - & Mr. Aryeh Frankfurter -aka- "LionHarp" of LionHarpmusic.com You'll thank me later! The Dream Spinner's also a Certified Babe's Fiber Garden - LLC Spinning Wheel Dealer Visit the Babes Fiber Garden-LLC website at: http://www.babesfibergarden.com/

Kindest Regards & Thank You for Your Kind Attention - Teri –-aka- “The Dream Spinner”

The Basic Anatomy of a BABE Spinning Wheel...

2007-02-25T15:38:00.000-05:00

Click Directly ON the PIC - For a VERY close-up view in a new window...

The Dream Spinner's Oddesy...

2006-11-15T14:58:00.003-05:00

My Spinning odyssey began about 5 years ago, when on a whim, a treasured friend sent a DIY - Learn To Spin Kit - including a drop-spindle, some prepared wool spinning fiber {roving} & terrific Beginner Spinner's book filled with excellent photos "Spin It" by Lee Raven.

THUS my Spinning Love Affair - That not only gave me back nearly the complete free use of an exquisitely PAINFUL “frozen shoulder” - It began my total luxury fiber addiction!!!

I have 4 of over 250+ known forms of degenerative Arthritis - R.A. - O.A. - Fibromyalgia & the worst & most painful - degenerative cervical & thoracic spinal Ankylosing Spondylitis. They are CRIPPLING, HUMILLIATING & extremely PAINFUL - but NOT enough to force me to give UP spinning OR my personal goal of making the simple JOY of Spinning luxury fiber yarnage AVAILABLE to those also dealing with Disabilities - Limited range of mobility & chronic pain issues like mine - POSSIBLE - AFFORDABLE - COMFORTABLE & FUN!!!

I bought my very first BABE Spinning Wheel & was SO totally hooked on Spinning - I only bought 7 more completely different BABE Spinning Wheels -&- become the only BABES Fiber Garden ~ LLC ~ Spinning Wheel Dealer in GA. I can drop--ship anything from the B.F.G. website: www.babesfibergarden.com anywhere & give all private EMAIL order customers a 10% discount!

I accept pre-payment via PayPal only - with delivery to your door is usually within 7 business days thereafter. Email: Thedreamspinner@gmail.net for more detailed information about BABE Spinning Wheels - Spinning supplies, Fibers, & my own custom hand-made ©Dream Spinner Creation items in my ETSY shop http://TheDreamSpinner.etsy.com! And ask me about my NEW fully-adjustable electronic ©Universal Dream Spinner Spinning Wheel I designed that hosts almost ANY brand, type or STYLE flyer & bobbin-lead assembly! ALSO available from Babe’s Fiber Garden – LLC – DIRECTLY!

Spinning luxurious fiber yarnage is far less expensive than purchasing ready-made or quality synthetics & easier to master than you'd think! Check out the fabulous BABE Spinning Wheels & spinning supplies at: www.babesfibergarden.com & Let's Talk Spinning!

Thank You for stopping by "The Dream Spinner"s! DO take a peek in the Favorite Spinning Links section too! Why not gather a nice hot cup of tea or cocoa & light snack & thennn... Click the Play buttons on the YouTube videos & prepare to Bee-Dazzle your eyes & ears with new Fiber-Delights!

Happy Spinning Ya'll! Teri

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