The Ashford spinning wheel is a relatively recent addition at Eileen Douglas's Benambra house and its whisper is only occasionally interrupted by the pop of the 100-year-old slow combustion stove in ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- At 94, Wallace Van Eaton can still spin a good yarn. In all senses. Yes, he can tell a great anecdote. Better than that, he can actually spin wool into yarn. Best of all, he makes the ...

While knitting and crocheting remain popular past-times on the Island there aren’t too many people who hand spin their own wool into yarn to do it. Philanthropist lawyer Michelle St. Jane is the ...

Drought keeps you watering morning and evening just to keep things alive, dried-out pastures force you to go further afield to feed animals, and mice or grasshoppers or kangaroos eat the plants or ...

[glacialwanderer], who you may remember from his CNC machine build, recently completed an electric spinning wheel. Spinning wheels are used by knitters to turn raw sheep’s wool into yarn. He went ...

A 'Wheel Finger' is a wooden implement used in hand-spinning, to turn the wheel of the "great wheel" or wool wheel. arrow-up Back to top ...

I’m from North Carolina. My husband and I travelled here on holiday in the early 1990s. He got a chance to work here, so we lived here for a year and we made friends and loved it. I took early ...