Learn the Drop Spindle Park and Draft Method

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Learn to use the Drop Spindle

Festival Spinning: Waterloo IL

The Drop Spindle is the common spindle form seen at festival and is an effective spinning tool. In the early anthropology texts, it is only seen in North Africa in the valley of the Nile, so I like to call this form, ‘Spin Like an Egyptian’…

I have found that many folks have trouble learning to spin with these & my new You Tube videos show the pathway I teach for learning this spindle form.

Park & Draft…

Do one thing at a time, till both are mastered, then combine into the graceful fluid motions that accomplished Drop Spinners affect…

A good example of a 1^st Principles lesson

Meet the Denizens of Oak Knoll Farm!

Bear the Maremma, LGD and one of his charges: Vincent the hardware store orphan...

 
 

We are a No-Kill Farm and take in sheep that would otherwise be taken to market.

A Wether is a neutered Male sheep...They can not breed or make lambs, so most folks don't keep them...They are gentle natured and very affectionate pets, that share their very fine fleece once a year...



Dori & Oin the Finnish Landrace Wethers

 

Dori & Oin are named after Dwarves in the Hobbit and are fine companions...Dori is our fuzzy Oak Knoll Farm ambassador...I call him the Therapy Sheep and he melts the hardest heart.

 

Mac the Shetland/BFL Cross Wether

 

Mac knows how to open gates and creates all sorts of trouble...Can not stay mad at him though!

 

Join us this year at our festivals...MOPACA at the end of March, then, Waterloo Sheep and Wool on April 12...Waterloo IL...