Marly (the Yarnthing) has been bitten by this stitchmarker making craze! It was about time!!! She sendt me these ubercool stitchmarkers, she actually sells them on her blog too if you want some for yourself.
And dont you just love the charm?
I got this comment yesterday from Tea and I did respond to her, but I thought I would post it openly too since I have gotten some more of the same type of question.
How did you decide what wheel to get?
Here is what I wrote back to her:
First it was the look of it that really got to me, I love it! It was either this or a Kromski minstrel that is kind of more traditional looking. But it was the Louet and its untraditional look that made me really like it.
After asking the seller what wheel he recommended for me (from the two I had in mind) as a beginner who wanted to spin all kind of yarns I was recommended the Louet because it was easy to put together, adjust, care for
and especially because it was easy to work with.
I decided to have the one with double treadle because I had a feeling I would get a better rythm working with both my legs rather than just one. The good thing is that you can use only one leg if you want to, but with a double treadle at least you have the option to choose how you want to treadle.
There is lots of “add ons” you can buy for this wheel to, so I can buy extra
gadgets if I want to for spinning really really thick yarns and so on.
I finally got my wheel! I ordered it last weekend, and I had it on thursday 
Its a Louet s10dt. I havent named him yet, but hopefully soon.
Its fantasticly easy to adjust and spin on. After 10 minutes I had it all figured out on where to adjust what and get a good rythm going. And the assemble was a piece of cake! I am pretty sure I picked just the right wheel for me. I love it! I love how it looks and how it works! I bought it at Spinnvilt.
Just a small update on my sockknitting.
Basketcase socks halfdone
These are almost done, I call them my Norwegian flag socks.
And my Nopurl monkeys just have to be grafted at the toes.
It is a “christmas cacti” in the sense that it is supposed to bloom around christmas time. I think my cacti has got its timeframe wrong…we are in the middle of MAY and it is in bloom! I have had this for almost 10 years now and it has always bloomed in March or april…never in November or december… This cacti is actually way older than me. It is probably somewhere between 35-40 years. My grandmother had it for ages, and I remember it well from my childhood. When my Grandmother passed I got the cacti.
Just a couple of days ago I got my Ringspindle spindle from Golding Fiber tools. This one is the Solid Lignum Vitae. It is very light weight, only 18,5 grams! it is a dream to work with because it spins FOREVER and ever and ever!
This is close ups from a Anemone nemorosa.
Thats what I call this handspun, because it is 50% alpaca and 50% colonial wool.
She is sportweight, 180 yards and weighs 70 grams.
When I plied these two yarns I tried out a homemade tentioned lazy kate consisting of 4 straight needles and a shoebox, worked like a charm!!!!!
And when I had plied the two I had some of the colonial left, so I navaho plied it.
6 grams and 9,5 yards of DK weight yarn.
I recieved another swappackage, this time from Soapsandropes over at Ravely. I sent her a Travelsized needle-case and She sendt me some lovely Arucania Rancho. I love this yarn!!! Thanks Soapsandropes!!!!!
After mys first attempt at navaho plying I decided to do more of it to get the hang and feel of it.
This is Colonial wool, 29 grams and 51 yards of Dk weight yarn.
