Any Knitters or Spinners here?

[cwdresmker]

I'm an avid knitter, spinner quilter and seamstress. Any other knitters or spinners here?

 

[KimberlyJ]

I can knit, but I just don't enjoy it much. I pretend I like to knit because I like going to a weekly knitting club at our local Panera Bread. I LOVE the other ladies there, most of them are obsessive knitters.

 

[happyhensny]

My 11 yr old DD THINKS she want to learn to spin. There is a folksy summer camp here and she will be taking the spinning and knitting class this summer. Maybe Blacksmithing too. Last year she tried wire brazing and tin smithing.

 

[dkvart1]

I knit and love it. Moving north from Florida this year and once settled will have to get started on new sweaters!

Always wanted to learn to spin, but then my list of "what I'd love to learn" is a darn long one and there simply isn't that much time to get it all in!

 

[DuckLady]

I like to knit, but am not very experienced.

I have watched the local spinners group at work. Fascinating work! and I am opening a yarn shop next week!

 

[dkvart1]

Best of luck Terrielacy, please share pics of your shop when you can!

 

[HHandbasket]

I do not knit, but I like to crochet. I am interested in learning to spin, as I'm about to move to an alpaca farm & will have access to lots of fiber.

 

[justbugged]

I have a spinning wheel and have done a little spinning on it. I have been stuck for years now, on the part where you reverse the spin and ply the yarn. Now I will need a new belt for my wheel before I can even try to do anymore. I also need a carder. I have a lot of dog hair from my Komondor that I would like turned into roving.

But my biggest obstacle is that I really don't like to knit. I do crochet fairly well.

 

[sewandgrow]

I am an avid crochet but do knit some too. I just do simple stuff with knitting & prefer to crochet for the speed. One of my good friends just learned to knit though & she is crazy about it & won't knit continental but prefers to throw her yarn with each stitch. Different strokes thing I guess.
I bought a spinning wheel a "Traveler"f rom Ashford some years back & learned how to spin but quickly found out it is NOT FOR ME. My spinning wheel has been stored in black plastic for years..........LOL Now my new knitting friend wants to give it a try..................more power to her. I hope she loves it as much as she loves to knit. I will stick to raising my several breeds of chickens for my fun.....LOL

 

[cwdresmker]

I love to knit and spin. My great-grandmother taught me to crochet when I was 6 (I still have her "crochet steels" as she called them) my grandmother taught me to knit & sew when I was eight...she was an avid quilter and seamstress, sadly we lost her 5 years ago. I feel like I carry on both their legacies with my "craftiness" -- I learned to spin about 15 years ago and still have weaving on my "bucket list".
I have to have something in my hands at night...Granny's words ring in my head--"Idle hands are the work of the devil"