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like your videos. i've learned this or that and generally just enjoy them. thank you.

Great 👍 thanks

Heard about people using all kinds of plant and animal hair to make string for cloth , cloths and tapestries on spinning and whirling wheels. Whirling and looms have been around forever in Europe , could be around 3000 years. Wool was one of the favorites in the cold parts of Europe, that was almost needed for survival. That exists in the mythologies and old sayings.. Mid-bronze age or early Iron age maybe even farther back. One of the most popular sheep was from the Germanic tribes including the Danes who had sheep more designed for the northern climate. Christianity is closer to late iron age. The viking age and earlier was filled with wagons, plows, farms ,cattle towns and spinning wheels that in some way was a little like the old west in the USA with more structure and law. Christianity caused the viking age. Wild theory, Their is a connection between the wheel that goes back to the copper age and the spinning wheel.

Oooooo. Nice wheel. I do long draw with my DD wheel. I really like DD wheels.

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Nice orpington....where do you purchase you chicks from?

That is one beautiful spinning wheel 🥰

I found your videos through left handed knitting. I do spin and weave and quilt.

Where do you live?

I have a double drive! Tension is always a challenge.

Tension and hand movements are wonderful to watch.

Very interesting. Thanks.

Looks happy

They are so beautiful.

How wonderful!

Love this. Thank you for sharing your knowledge !

Thank you for this great video. Makes rehearsing so much easier for a right handed too. By mastering this way of knitting one can skip turning the work alltogether. Row right to left -> normal continental knitting Do not turn the work Row left to right - "Norwegian purl" for left handed P.S. This way of purling isn't known only in Norway.

Beautiful wheel! Congratulations!

Wow great insight. This is like watching a video for Eastern or Russian Continent purl in rounds. I like to knit forwards and backwards as it seems I have better tension and all rows look good in stockinette on the front or in reverse stockinette. I had stopped knitting and crochet from my hands becoming nearly useless. But I was also often in a wheelchair, the arthritis was in my back, my knees, my hips, my ankles and shoulders and ankles. The reason is: I had monstrous arthritis. I did figure out what was causing it, I cannot tolerate the protein in dairy. When most of the pain all over my body left. I said: “Great, I can knit again”… only I couldn’t knit really well. My hands needed physical therapy, and were weak from not being able to use them. So my own prescribed Physical Therapy, which knitting adequately provides, restored my hands. I had distorted joints, but they stopped being swollen and with use, they straightened out. My doctor said I had experienced a miracle, no, I experienced the common sense we all have and to be able to think what I was doing wrong and how to help myself. Different styles work fingers differently from whether we wrap the yarn as an English knitter, which I had been or as a Continental knitter. I came to knitting backwards doing Entrelac and knitting backwards in English style is how a Lefty would knit in Combination knitting. I said I have got to learn this! But most of the videos are for Right-handed people. Well at the time I lived in a house with closet doors which were mirrors so I sat on the floor and noticed how I knit, then learned to knit backwards better, or rather as a left-hand dominant person would. When you knit and do a regular purl in Continental Combination, Eastern or Russian (they all purl the same - wrapping the yarn in the easier way), the mount of the stitch is different in the next round. This purl you demoed is perfect for that, as in small circumference knitting as in knitting socks or gloves, especially on double points, bringing the work to the front and also with stranded knitting, is harder. This method feeds the same amount of yarn in knitting on the front or back, so annoying things like rowing out which happens in particular for Western Continental knitters, disappears. The knitting looks stellar. One usually does not have purls in Fair Isle except when texture is added. If there is a technique however, you may want to try but want it for your style position your laptop, or iPad so you are watching it in the mirror. Now you’ll find others who are knitting like you via mirror knitting. Fascinating. How many videos show how to cast on for lefties or if you need a stretchier cast on or a bind off. They really aren’t there. But via using an actual mirror, if you have one you can position for this purpose, is amazing what you can learn. I try to learn any technique forwards and backwards and find then I do understand how to correct my knitting and which direction to make a decrease, etc. One thing which I have found to help me understand knitting best is to look at what is the leading leg and then to knit appropriately so there are no twisted stitches. Knitting in mirror-land allows one to add applied borders which mirror your pattern, one can knit back and forth on the FRONT while doing short rows for socks. And if you are knitting cables, very rare indeed is their a pattern stitch on the back of the work except for Brooke’s Column of leaves. It was easier to figure how to make that weird purl decrease, doing it from the front as I was making loads of mistakes, as I am a visual knitter, if I can see what my pattern is doing on the front side, I know it is coming out right. Also found odd decreases in lace knitting in which knitting backwards was essential to getting the work done right. And it is good for the brain to be able to use both hands well. We type and that requires both hands to be working, their is no reason we have to be using just one hand. Imagine if we were one leg dominant, would we be hopping everywhere? To use both hands is just common sense, that both are equally strong, keeps one from injury. I can open a jelly jar or a jar from the supermarket with either hand. That is how good my hands are now. Then I do another thing weird: I speed read and skim things forward and backwards yet have full understanding of what I read. I’ve done this since childhood but was told I was dyslexic and hard to teach. Actually I just see the world equally between hands and directions. So this seems more natural to me. But I think it is good for our brains as we age. I am 68 now. Did you know that knitters tend to live longer and have not as much diminished cognition? My dad died of Alzheimer’s disease so don’t want that happening to me. To me I knit to be able to keep arthritis from my fingers and for having a nimble brain too and of course, I enjoy it.

Such a gorgeous wheel 💛 Bonus points for matching puppy 🥰

Denise, thank you for sharing this beautiful wheel. What did you use to clean up the hooks, just some steel wool?

Nice wheel. I am curioius as to what you paid for her, if you don't mind my asking.

I do not condone this but ok well done

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Hi, Denise! I understand what you are doing but I hold yarn in left hand. So this doesn't work for me. Any ideas?

Aw the sheep are getting a cuddle

Happy new yr

I don't believe I've ever seen anyone load (quite) that much fiber to the tray at one time :) Have you needed to take fiber out of the gears/crank shaft (yet)? After taking all the screws out of one side of my ashford standard carder when the crank refused to budge I learned my lesson.

This is so fun! I saw a kick spindle today so came on TH-cam to look at them, ended up here and now I want to mod my wheel! You're so clever. :)

How many sheep do you have I am you tube I cuddle my sheep

That sheep is a good girl a cute sheep nice video do you want to watch mine

Hi Denise, thankyou for your clear video, I have a Kromski Sonata & was wondering if I could put a spindle on to it. As I also have the Jumbo Flyer, which I use exclusively, as it's easier for me to thread up, I now have a use for the standard flyer. I have wanted a spindle wheel for ages, since I have had the opportunity to use a Great Wheel ( they are not common in Australia), which is on permanent loan to the heritage village that I volunteer at, in the Spinners hut. It was so easy to use. would you be able to show us a full size video of your home made wheel please?

Do you have any plans put togeather for you wheel or was it all made on the fly? I have just got a spindle wheel that is maybe..130 years old. I like the idea of being able to sit.

Thanks for the video. Was wondering where you got your spinning wheel. Did you make it from a plan? Thanks!

This was very informative, thank you!