Haak Gespot op Mijn Vakantie (+ Drop Spil Fun)

Ik ging onlangs op een 2-weekse vakantie, eerst naar Tucson en daarna naar LA. Het was echt een bijzondere tijd met mijn gezin. We deden heel veel dingen (die ik heb te delen dan op mijn persoonlijke blog, Dagboek van een Smart Chick, als je geïnteresseerd bent in het.) Meestal was ik niet gefocust op mijn haak. Ik hou van haken, maar ik heb dagelijks ambacht, blog over haken, praten over haak constant, dus ik dacht dat het gezond is voor deze vakantie zou zijn om niet over een gehaakte aandacht. Ik kon het niet helpen, maar merken toen ik zag haak ergens, hoewel, toen ik uit en over en ik hier nam enkele foto's om dat met u delen. Plus ik de kans om een ​​man die mooie druppel spindels maakt en dat is bemoedigend me tot het nemen van een nieuw vaartuig aan te vullen mijn haak te voldoen had ook. Bekijk hier de dingen die ik eerst zag en lees dan verder om alles te leren over mijn geweldige ervaring leren over Ken Ledbetter's spindels.

Haak Around Town

Hier is de haak zag ik terwijl ik aan het doen was verschillende dingen in Tucson en Los Angeles:

Gehaakte kleding gespot in Santee Alley, Fashion District van LA

Bookman's, een grote tweedehands boekwinkel in Tucson, heeft uitgebreid om ook bieden diverse kringloopwinkel stijl items en ze hadden nogal wat haken portemonnees, waaronder die in de rug is er gemaakt van plarn.

Haak overdekte kussens in Cafe Mimosa in Topanga Canyon, LA

En dit is niet gehaakt, maar het vertelt je hoe garen obessed ik ben … toen we bij Huntington Gardens was er een display met schaap, racoon and coyote fur and my immediate thought was, “well you can make yarn from sheep so can you make racoon and coyote yarn, ook?!”

And this one is cotton growing at the gardens, which also made me think of yarn. I love yarn.

Drop Spindles

Figured Wood

I may have mentioned before that my father is a custom woodworker. He also does urban harvesting of reclaimed wood, traveling to Ohio each summer to gather the wood where he works with the Amish to get it milled and brings it back to buyers in Arizona. He specializes in really unique woods that have fascinating figures in them. One of his buyers especially seeks out that special wood; his name is Ken Ledbetter and he’s an artist whose focus for the past few years has been on making truly exquisite spindles for spinning yarn. (He also makes yarn bowls, shuttles and other related items).

Ken and my dad in the shop

I wanted to talk to Ken because my dad had mentioned that he goes to a lot of different fiber events and I’m trying to learn how to get my book represented at events like that. He had some great suggestions of who I should talk to but mostly I just really enjoyed talking about the fiber arts community, how he got into the work and just the joy of our craft. I met him at my dad’s workshop but he invited us to come up the next day and visit his studio so we did that. I got to see a little bit of how he works, check out some drop spindles in various stages of being put together and talk more about the craft. It was terrific. Ken is really nice, really knowledgeable about this area of the craft and very talented in doing this work.

Spindles in the making

Ken starts with a creative piece of wood (sometimes wood from my father). He uses his tools to shape that into spindles of various sizes. (In addition to the drop spindles, which are what interested me, and he also makes Russian spindles and Tibetan spindles.) He then adds in a unique decorative item to enhance the natural appeal of the wood. The item might be an abalone shell, a creative button, ceramics or a piece he’s made himself with leftover wood. The result is a really beautiful work of art. And of course it’s designed to be functional as well; Ken offers a guarantee on his products so if for some reason the item fails to work properly (which is unlikely) he’ll work with you. Visit Ken’s store, KCL Woods, online to see all of his beautiful work.

Drop spindles ready to go

Ken susprised my sister and I while we were there by gifting us each with a drop spindle. I have been saying for awhile that I want to get into the next stage of my yarn craft by learning to both dye and spin yarn. I love the idea of “slow crochet” where you do as many of the steps as you can by yourself, from raising the fiber animals to spinning and dyeing the yarn, to crocheting the piece. I can’t own my own animals right now but there’s no reason I can’t learn to dye and spin. I’ve been saying it and saying it but I’ve taken no steps to actually make it happen. This gift of the drop spindle really encourages me to start learning this new part of the craft! My only concern is where the heck I’m going to store roving when I’ve already filled my house with yarn!

My new drop spindle!

Do any of you spin? How about dyeing?

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