First Spinning Lesson

Yesterday I had my first spinning lesson at Feederbrook Farm.  It was a very lovely place, and the lesson was quite low-key.  They are a Kromski dealer, so we used Kromski wheels. From what I had read about on-line and elsewhere, I really expected to like the Kromski Sonata (which I had a chance to try). It wasn't bad, but I found that I actually preferred the Symphony, which I did not expect.

So here is my first yarn:

This one was done on the Symphony. It was not as difficult as I had anticipated.  Most of the beginning-to-spin things I had read talk about how people have trouble adjusting to doing two things at once - moving both their feet and their hands - in separate ways. That was not what I had the most trouble with. I had more difficulty figuring out the rhythm of the wheel and when to let the yarn feed in and when to keep it out and build the tension.  This a little more evident in my second piece (below). The picture doesn't show it all, but there are many changes from very thin to very thick. I'd like to say that's because I was playing with the yarn thicknesses, but mostly that is not true.