Teach yourself to spin on a wheel in 8 easy steps!
Step 1. Figure out how to use a leader. If you already know how, goody for you. Go on to step 2.
Step 2. Thread the leader. Hint: it goes through the hole.
Step 3. Get your fiber ready and start treadling. When nothing happens, try treadling faster.
Step 4. Notice that thing that resembles fishing line on a stick. It looks like it’s supposed to go somewhere, so take a guess and put it there.
Step 5. Start treadling again. Spin happily for about 10 seconds, then watch the flyer fall off and hit the floor. Curse.
Step 6. Screw the flyer back in. Start treadling again, only this time go the opposite way. Watch your yarn unspin itself. Fantasize about chucking the thing off the balcony as you untangle the yarn.
Step 7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 until most of your free time is shot.
Step 8. You couldn’t possibly make any more mistakes. Spin some uneven yarn until you feel better about yourself.
Now, wasn’t that easy? Who needs fancy-pants spinning lessons?
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Jessica said,
April 30, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
seriously, this tutorial needs pictures
mai said,
May 1, 2008 @ 3:37 am
hahaha first day with the wheel not go so well?
Patti said,
June 23, 2008 @ 5:05 pm
I so know how this feels
been there done that…but hubby bought it for me anyway, tweeked some of the parts..and I love it now–as a third and travel wheel-wouldnt be my first choice for a beginner thats for sure-but LoVe your discription LOL
Lu said,
June 27, 2008 @ 12:11 am
Eh eh, just got the Hitchhiler and your tutorial describes perfectly my first day of spinning. I blame the fiber (I can dream, can I?) because the free fiber I got with it is crap (I doubt I could even spin it on my hand spindle.)
Let us how when the cursing stop.
Thelma said,
August 13, 2008 @ 7:39 pm
Where do you wind the tension around. Is it the large bottom of the bobbin or what? I just got mine today.
Thelma