I’ve got nothing of my own to show off but I do have the work from a new spinner. Check this out:
She broke the rules by not doing much for drafting but I can’t expect that much out of a 2 year old. She is obsessed with the wheels and spindles. She likes to carry around a spindle and doesn’t want to hit anything with it, generally she wants to wrap it up with fiber or just hold it. The wheels, she pulls up a stool and treadles. She’s really good about getting it going in the correct direction (when she remembers which one that is).
She’s been begging for weeks to make yarn so I pulled out some pencil roving and sat next to her as she fed the wheel. I was amazed at how well she did. Now she has the bug. All the time it’s “Where’s MY wheel” and “I want to make yarn”. Already this morning she’s been at the wheel:
When I can’t sit with her to make yarn (I need to keep making sure the wheel is going in the right direction as she likes to stop often and feel the wool) she sits and treadles.
She settled in and got really comfy treadling Saturday night:
Gotta love that sloth spinning technique she’s working on.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Oh my, it’s too cute! All it means that if a 2 year old can spin, I should not be as afraid of spinning as I am.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:41 am
“Gotta love that sloth spinning technique she’s working on.”
She got the spinning from you and the technique from me.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:46 am
This is, as the kids say these days, made of win!
July 28th, 2008 at 8:57 am
How awesome is that?!?
July 28th, 2008 at 9:47 am
My just turned 3 year old really wants to spin and knit. She likes to try and treadle but finds my Lendrum DT too big. She keeps insisting that the old slightly broken flax wheel that I have is hers. I think I might try and get it stable enough for her to treadle as it’s really small.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:23 am
CUTE beyond words!!!!!
July 28th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Hahaha, her spinning is better than mine!
July 28th, 2008 at 11:11 am
that is just freakin’ fantastic!
and my sloth technique is similar.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:17 am
How freakin’ awesome is that!! Not to mention adorable.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Oh, I’m so jealous! Talk about learning at the knee of the Master!
I want to learn!!
July 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Awww! That is so sweet!
July 28th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
OK, her yarn is fantastic!! And the pics are totally adorable. Sloth spinning! LOLOLOL
July 28th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
This may be the cutest thing I’ve seen in a year, which is saying something, cuz I like baby animals A LOT.
July 28th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I think her spinning looks better than mine!! Good job, she looks pooped now.
Smiles
Vick
July 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Incredibly cute pictures.
Give her my compliments on her spinning. 
July 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
HaHaHaHa! Those are the greatest pictures, glad to see she’s following in your mighty big footsteps
Sloth technique is brilliant!
July 28th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Way to go! You converted another one
She is too cute, and that wheel is just the right size for her.
July 28th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
She is too cute. Her yarn looks great & squishy.
July 28th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I love Husbeast’s comment
BB’s first yarn looks a lot better than mine did (and better than a lot of mine does now). She was so cute today sitting at the wheel treadling. When I got home and started spinning, Clover was watching me and I assured her that it wouldn’t be long before she’d be spinning too
July 28th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
sloths are so cute!
as is your new spinner!
July 28th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Oh wow - world’s cutest spinner!
July 28th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
That is so sweet! My little girl wants to spin so bad but doesn’t have the patience haha.
July 28th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Go, Boogie Baby! Awesome child, that one!
July 28th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Awwwww! It must be a Libra thing.
I want to spin on a wheel, too, and I’ve been carrying my spindle and fiber around for a few days, spinning and stopping to feel the wool. She’s adorable and her yarn looks great!
July 28th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I love that sloth spinning! Why can’t I get comfortable that way? I tend to slouch in the OTHER direction….lol…so great for Baby Boogie!
July 28th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Oh, too cute! I guess she can’t help but absorb the spinning “itch”.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
How sad is it that your 2 year old’s yarn is about the same as mine!
July 29th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Boogie Baby Rocks! She’s obviously inherited her mom’s talent and good looks.
July 29th, 2008 at 4:27 am
She is too cute
July 29th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Way to go!
My six-year-old wants to learn but I’m not sure how to teach him, I’m a rather new spinner myself.
BTW, I got the latest club fiber today, gorgeous, thanks!
July 29th, 2008 at 6:02 am
You’ve got a green thumb when it comes to kids, honey! Raising champions, you are!
July 29th, 2008 at 7:32 am
She’ll be the next SOAR scholarship girl and then you’ll have to go as her chaperone:-)
July 29th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Too, too cute! So clever - her yarn is fantastic.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Your little one is so cute!
July 29th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I love it!
July 29th, 2008 at 10:37 am
That’s so awesome. I’ve gotten my 3 year old interested, but nowhere near that level!
July 29th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Oh that is awesome! I am going to try the sloth technique tonight…it looks much more comfortable than the way I do it!
July 30th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Hey, that’s great. Someone to inherit your stash who might actually use it.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:46 am
What a cute new spinner!
July 30th, 2008 at 10:28 am
That is the best thing I have seen in like forever!
July 31st, 2008 at 6:37 am
I was leaning back like that to spin last night… my yarn ended up looking like crap. Baby Boogie has got some mad skills!
July 31st, 2008 at 10:48 am
Adorable!
July 31st, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I had a very similar post the other day about my 5-year-old. I, however, didn’t think about pencil roving. I think we’re going to have to get some!
August 4th, 2008 at 8:43 am
She is adorable!
August 7th, 2008 at 11:31 am
OMG, she is too cute! She’s going to be an expert at spinning when she gets older.