Sleeping Beauty’s spinning wheel

My sister Maretta’s fictional alter-ego is Sleeping Beauty.  The girl loves her sleep, and she does look like an angle while snoozing.  She and I shared a (very small) room growing up, and I would have the lights on and my music blaring and I would be walking across her bed, and all the while, she lay there in beatific slumber.

In addition to being a beautiful person, sister, and actress, Maretta is a knitter extraordinaire.  The girl is fast, and she cranks out projects by the week.  This is especially impressive to me as I crank out knitting projects on a 2-4 year time horizon.

Maretta recently took a class where she learned how to spin yarn.  Now, she’s addicted.  She put the word out and acquired a $20 spinning wheel.  When we visited her recently, I took some photos of her demonstrating her new craft.

Here she is seated in front of the wheel.

Here’s a bobbin filled with spun yarn.

Before and after.  Roving becomes yarn.

Before and after closeup. You gotta love those natural fibers!  Maretta is really getting on my case about getting myself a farm where I can raise alpacas for her:)

The wheel.

Here it’s spinning without the wool.

And here’s the wheel in motion.

I took a little video of Maretta spinning away.  Enjoy!  She’s starting to get wool from a fiber CSA called Kindred Spirit Farm.  It’s such a joy to see someone you love so electrified by a new passion!

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