Drop Spindle Basics

What a fantastic demonstration! I really like that you showed how to do this using a drawer pull and dowel. That is some real ingenuity. Very clever. I also appreciate that you explained that it becomes easier as you get more weight on the spindle. Thanks so much!

wow... you're awesome hehe, great info and you're good at demonstrating along with your speech.

This tape is great. I see you have lots of yarns on the background. Do you sell them?

Very well done! Easy to understand and answers quite a few questions!

Excellently done video, I have wondered about how this was done. I thank you for sharing this bit of knowledge with us. But it does beg the question, can you do this with cotton fibers as easily? I have a field behind my house that usually crops cotton and what is left over after the harvest is all mine and I have collected this for years so I have alot of it. I'd really like to find a good purpose for it.

I just felt like I should start spinning, out of the blue, today. =P Thanks for such an educational video, and I HEART all your yarns behind you. =)

very awsome !!!

Nicely done. :-)

Does this work as well with cotton? For example, suppose I tried to use cotton balls as a source of fiber, or puffs from some other plants?

Let me explain a little. I'm thinking of a primitive survival situation. Looks like a drop spindle is something I could easily make "in the wild". What I'm also kind of curious about is how well plant based fibers splice to each other.

I'm thinking I can easily carve the spindle, just not so sure about using shorter fibers than the wool you are using.

Yeah, you can use cotton, but I think it's more difficult. Search around some and you'll find the pros and cons.