I am buying a Pollywog, my first spinning wheel. Your video is the very best I have found, for the Pollywog, for how to set it up, for how to use it, and even to understand exactly what to do and how to do it! Thank you so very much!!! Thank you! Your video is clear, and you think through every single step. Perhaps that is because you are new to spinning. You are aware of all the steps so you don’t skip any, and you make them very clear to see and to understand. I appreciate you! And I appreciate you taking the tine, and making the effort to teach us! ☺️
I have been wanting to learn how to spin for years... however I live on a fixed income and can't afford this or any other wheel...my 39 year old son lives with me and is extremely talented enough to make me one...I showed him a picture of what I would like and after we move he said he will make it for me....diy project... there are so many ideas that show you how on utube..... people share what they've done...very enlightening and so nice for them to share... thank you for sharing your experience.... because you've answered alot of my questions about spinning.... hug's to you.... Lynn Weasenforth 💯💙💛💜🌹😘
My husband just ordered me one for my birthday. I’ve only used drop spindles before and even then, I am such a beginner. This video totally helped give a great overview. It wasn’t boring, you kept it relatable and kind of funny, and so informative. I can’t tell you how many other UA-cam videos I began and had to exit out of due to poor quality or extreme boring-ness. But not yours. I think it was the green pants and moccasin slippers- that’s what did it. I own some too 😂
This was fun., I loved seeing your adorable new toy..and seeing your joy in spinning. It looks like fun. Thanks for sharing your new skill with us... 💜
Thank you so much for sharing!!! I hope you continue to share your progress with spinning!! I can't physically do it, but I love watching you do it!!! Love you and Please stay safe and healthy!!! 💕😘
You make everything look like I can do it, even spinning! I'm leaving it you-keep on being all that you can be. It's infectious! Thanks for sharing all your talents with us!🙂
It seems so relaxing. Yay. Great job. I love what your doing. Yay. Your an beautiful person with an great attitude and that's what makes you special. I can understand everything you do. Yay. 🤗🤗🤗🤗😄😄😄😄😄😄💗💖💟
I am new to your channel so bingeing through your past uploads and I think you are so soothing to listen to and you're an excellent teacher. I am so looking forward to coming videos.
I learned how to spin on my drop spindle through your wonderful 2-part tutorial a few months ago. I am now OBSESSED and purchased my first spinning wheel this week. I love all your videos especially your vlogs (feels like hanging out with a friend). Would love to see more spinning content if you desire to spin more in 2021 :) Happy holidays!!!
This a awesome video ! My husband bought me a spinalution and I am very excited ... it will not come for another 4 weeks… this video was very educational 💕
Love this video so much. You did very well showing all about the awesome, little wheel. I would love to see a follow-up video of anything you have picked up along the learning breaking in process or anything you have finished spinning with it.
Love you made this video! So many have made videos of spinning but not from setting up to spinning the yarn. I want to learn how to do this hoping for some relaxing time as when I 🧶 crochet.
Thank you for this, I live in europe (ireland) and am finding it difficult to source a supplier for the polywog but I am persevering - it is the model I prefer and it is great to see you using it. Once again thank you
This was very interesting and informative. I am not ready for that yet. Still learning about all the different yarns. I have only ever used acrylic, but I am slowly branching out to other yarns that are new to me.
Thank you soooo much for doing this because I took class unfortunately, there was no interpreter and I felt that informations are mostly missed, and you explained very clearly, and I already have spinning wheel which is portable and I lost confidence in this after trying to do . Now you show and explained.. THANK YOU!!!!
If there are any fiber festivals in your area, often times the vendors will let you test drive their wheels. I was at the Vashon Island wool and sheep festival last year, and a lady let me try out her 300 year old wheel!! That one, I actually was able to spin the best. But there's no way I could justify spending 4 months worth of mortgage payments!!! 😬😲
Loved your tutorial my husband and myself have been dying to see this, because we have been thinking of possibility trying it ourselves. Very informative thank you!
Thank you “Fiber Spider Spinner” ! Very clear directions throughout the tutorial. Really enjoyed seeing how to spin as I knew nothing about it. Of course I want your next home spun giveaway yarn!!!!!😂
Loved this review as I have been looking at wheels and didn’t know anything about them. Now I can start to look and compare with a little more confidence. Thank you.
Hi friend , what a wonderful video! I’m thrilled you love your pollywog. That was the wheel that started it all for me too. Such a fun wheel to spin. Thank you sincerely for mentioning me as your dealer we’re a small family business so I really appreciate it also as a fellow UA-camr. I think you’re filming is great. My filming is terrible 😂🤦🏼♀️ i feel you on the 4 oz bobbin. I have a couple videos with tips about that. In the future you may like the 12’oz head for your polly. It’s basically a second half of a wheel. I often spin singles in the small bobbins and then ply onto the big one. I use it often. Also. The new “spin perfect “ 3d printed bobbins in the 4’oz do allow for more room. Dealers don’t sell those just order off the spin perfect site if you wish. Thank you again happy spinning. I’ll be sharing this wonderful video with people interested in learning more about this spinning. 💖
Thank you so much! It was actually your videos that encouraged me to get the pollywog in the first place, lol! Actually did consider the pollywog upgrades, but in the long run think the bullfrog might be more conducive to larger skein creation. Thank you again for your feedback! 😊🧶🕷🕸
I also enjoy felting, and know 2 spinners,, one lady comes to the fair, and spins angora bunny hair, and the other lady attends cracker country a pioneer village in Hillsborough county, she gave me some roving. I love all that stuff. But I have learned a lot from you.You are the sweetest person, Love you Craig. Thank you for your videos,
Great job! I loved seeing your spinning In action. I have a 100 year old hand made spinning wheel I need to learn more about using. It's not as easy looking , I fear.
All wheels are simple. When it comes down to it, they’re a wheel with some method of turning, be it a treadle, treadleS, or a motor, with a drive band that turns the flyer, which twists your raw fibre. Adjusting the tension of the drive band and/or the tension band(a “scotch brake” wheel has a seperate tensioning band, other wheels just have the drive band), you just fiddle with that till it suits you and the yarn you wish to spin.....everyone tensions differently. There are ofc lots of nuances within that but these are what a wheel IS. Simple, ingenious technology that has been in use for thousands of years the world over.
Very interesting! I grow flax for our local historical society and have enough prepared to give to a friend to spin and weave into a piece of cloth that, when I do my flax-to-linen demonstrations, I can tell those watching that the piece of cloth I am holding is purely local. I too, have to make do without the usual flax processing tools, but it does work, although it can look rather comical. I am going to borrow a spindle from my office one of these days and try my hand at spinning, using your tutorial as a guide.....
Spinning is not something I want to do myself but I just loved watching you do it for all to see. No need to apologize for your camera work.....its just FINE!
I thoroughly LOVED watching this. It was very informative, relaxing and fun! I would love to see you make and use your own yarn from start to finish. 💜💜💜
Your filming was just fine.this was a fun tutorial.Years ago I had wanted a spinning wheel. This gives people some insight into why some yarn from shops is very expensive .An education in all of the work people put into it is a good thing..I have an Alpaca farm down the road and plan on buying some yarn there. ❤
I love your wheel! I am hoping to take a day spinning workshop this year, I was taught as a child but that was a long long time ago lol love from the UK x
Good video. Thanks. I'm not going to spin. I decided when some people were telling me I should. I dont want the equipment. Also, if I started spinning, I'd probs never be able to stop. I love to watch the sheep to shawl event at the PA farm show.
Thank you for this very interesting video - positive i wouldn't dare to do this but it is fascinating to see how it's done and what all the "pieces" are :-)
Absolutely enjoyed your video, I think your doing a great job, You got the feel for it. And that doesn't come automatically. One of my neighbors have sheep I saw they recently sheered them, so I want to find out if they have wool to sell, in Florida they mainly have meat sheep. So not sure what they are doing with the wool.But I want to find out, I don't have a spinning wheel, but I did make my own spindle. A lady I knew once promised me hers, she was a co worker and very generous, but we since parted ways. And never got the wheel. But it's something I wanted to learn. So thank you.
I have fit 4 ounces on my 4 oz Spinolution bobbins, you fill them all the way to the edges. I have an Echo and want the Pollywog for a second wheel. I also have the 16 oz head for my Echo which can fit 8 oz bobbins and I have my 8 oz bobbin filled to the gills currently (and a bit rounded out in the middle, I wanted it all on there! 😂) with 8 oz of fiber.
An official spinster is a young maden making her first spool of yarn, but not impressing her intended and never weds. Check out the video Hands, making an Irish spinning wheel.
Thanks for sharing Mister Spinster I have been looking to buy a Spinning Wheel and have been trying to watch videos to see witch one I would like. This one seems very nice and solid, like you said you have to learn how to work them and the more you do the better you'll get. What is that saying Practice makes perfect.
Thank you for showing us this wheel. I appreciate your videos! As an unmarried woman I would rather be called an old maid rather than a spinster. Just a side note on another use of the wordspinister.
Great video Greg! The bullfrog wasn't around when I tested the polywog. I love my Echo though. Are you spinning to the edge of the bobbin? That is where the 4 oz capacity comes into play. Just wanted to let you know.
I am buying a Pollywog, my first spinning wheel. Your video is the very best I have found, for the Pollywog, for how to set it up, for how to use it, and even to understand exactly what to do and how to do it!
Thank you so very much!!! Thank you! Your video is clear, and you think through every single step. Perhaps that is because you are new to spinning. You are aware of all the steps so you don’t skip any, and you make them very clear to see and to understand.
I appreciate you! And I appreciate you taking the tine, and making the effort to teach us! ☺️
I have been wanting to learn how to spin for years... however I live on a fixed income and can't afford this or any other wheel...my 39 year old son lives with me and is extremely talented enough to make me one...I showed him a picture of what I would like and after we move he said he will make it for me....diy project... there are so many ideas that show you how on utube..... people share what they've done...very enlightening and so nice for them to share... thank you for sharing your experience.... because you've answered alot of my questions about spinning.... hug's to you.... Lynn Weasenforth 💯💙💛💜🌹😘
My husband just ordered me one for my birthday. I’ve only used drop spindles before and even then, I am such a beginner.
This video totally helped give a great overview. It wasn’t boring, you kept it relatable and kind of funny, and so informative.
I can’t tell you how many other UA-cam videos I began and had to exit out of due to poor quality or extreme boring-ness.
But not yours. I think it was the green pants and moccasin slippers- that’s what did it. I own some too 😂
I love this video. Thank you for taking the time to show us how to spin. This is very informative. 💖
This was fun., I loved seeing your adorable new toy..and seeing your joy in spinning. It looks like fun.
Thanks for sharing your new skill with us... 💜
Thank you so much for sharing!!! I hope you continue to share your progress with spinning!! I can't physically do it, but I love watching you do it!!! Love you and Please stay safe and healthy!!! 💕😘
You make everything look like I can do it, even spinning! I'm leaving it you-keep on being all that you can be. It's infectious! Thanks for sharing all your talents with us!🙂
Love love loved this video. I would really like to see more of your adventures in spinning!
Thank you for showing us your Pollywog spinner. I always enjoy your videos. 😊
Thanks for showing this. The whole process of spinning, the yarn is interesting.
It seems so relaxing. Yay. Great job. I love what your doing. Yay. Your an beautiful person with an great attitude and that's what makes you special. I can understand everything you do. Yay. 🤗🤗🤗🤗😄😄😄😄😄😄💗💖💟
I'm so happy you are diversifying and enjoying it. What's old is now new because it is ecofriendly. Great investment.
I am new to your channel so bingeing through your past uploads and I think you are so soothing to listen to and you're an excellent teacher. I am so looking forward to coming videos.
This video was awesome I don’t think spinning is for me but it looks like it could be a very rewarding for sure 💕💕🤗
I'm witcha😍👈
This seriously has made me so happy. You're amazing Mister Spinster!
I learned how to spin on my drop spindle through your wonderful 2-part tutorial a few months ago. I am now OBSESSED and purchased my first spinning wheel this week. I love all your videos especially your vlogs (feels like hanging out with a friend). Would love to see more spinning content if you desire to spin more in 2021 :) Happy holidays!!!
Very relaxing to watch actually!
This a awesome video ! My husband bought me a spinalution and I am very excited ... it will not come for another 4 weeks… this video was very educational 💕
Oh, I'm so glad, thank you! What model did you get? (Want to know so I can get jealous, lol)
Fiber Spider I got the echo with the monarch design ... so looking forward to playing and doing videos .. love your channel huge fan
Love this video so much. You did very well showing all about the awesome, little wheel. I would love to see a follow-up video of anything you have picked up along the learning breaking in process or anything you have finished spinning with it.
it was very enjoyable to watch you and to get a better idea on spinning. thank you! I love your humor!
TY I didn't have any idea. My niece drop spins, but haven't seen her do it! It was interesting and informative. Thanks again!
Love you made this video! So many have made videos of spinning but not from setting up to spinning the yarn. I want to learn how to do this hoping for some relaxing time as when I 🧶 crochet.
I loved this video. I’ve always been curious about spinning yarn. Enjoyed it very much. I learned something. Thanks
Very interesting process is spinning. Thank you for sharing. Spider. Is always nice to learn something new.
Thank you for this, I live in europe (ireland) and am finding it difficult to source a supplier for the polywog but I am persevering - it is the model I prefer and it is great to see you using it. Once again thank you
This was very interesting and informative. I am not ready for that yet. Still learning about all the different yarns. I have only ever used acrylic, but I am slowly branching out to other yarns that are new to me.
Thank you soooo much for doing this because I took class unfortunately, there was no interpreter and I felt that informations are mostly missed, and you explained very clearly, and I already have spinning wheel which is portable and I lost confidence in this after trying to do . Now you show and explained.. THANK YOU!!!!
I will likely never have to do this in my life but it is still SO INTERESTING TO WATCH 🤯 very relaxing
If there are any fiber festivals in your area, often times the vendors will let you test drive their wheels. I was at the Vashon Island wool and sheep festival last year, and a lady let me try out her 300 year old wheel!! That one, I actually was able to spin the best. But there's no way I could justify spending 4 months worth of mortgage payments!!! 😬😲
Thank you hon! It really does give me a sense of zen 😊🧶🕷🕸
Thank you for sharing this process with us!! Very interesting and informative..
Loved your tutorial my husband and myself have been dying to see this, because we have been thinking of possibility trying it ourselves. Very informative thank you!
Thank you for showing us all what is involved in spinning. You make it look so easy.
you did well. Thank you omg... how exciting! I always wanted one of these. 😀💖👍👍
I thought the filming was great and I thoroughly enjoyed the video. I’ve been looking forward to this an it was great! Thank you. ❤️
You’re a doll! Great lesson, thank you.
Thank you “Fiber Spider Spinner” ! Very clear directions throughout the tutorial. Really enjoyed seeing how to spin as I knew nothing about it. Of course I want your next home spun giveaway yarn!!!!!😂
Loved this review as I have been looking at wheels and didn’t know anything about them. Now I can start to look and compare with a little more confidence. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing. It was very informative. Have a wonderful day!
Hi friend , what a wonderful video! I’m thrilled you love your pollywog. That was the wheel that started it all for me too. Such a fun wheel to spin. Thank you sincerely for mentioning me as your dealer we’re a small family business so I really appreciate it also as a fellow UA-camr. I think you’re filming is great. My filming is terrible 😂🤦🏼♀️ i feel you on the 4 oz bobbin. I have a couple videos with tips about that. In the future you may like the 12’oz head for your polly. It’s basically a second half of a wheel. I often spin singles in the small bobbins and then ply onto the big one. I use it often. Also. The new “spin perfect “ 3d printed bobbins in the 4’oz do allow for more room. Dealers don’t sell those just order off the spin perfect site if you wish. Thank you again happy spinning. I’ll be sharing this wonderful video with people interested in learning more about this spinning. 💖
Thank you so much! It was actually your videos that encouraged me to get the pollywog in the first place, lol! Actually did consider the pollywog upgrades, but in the long run think the bullfrog might be more conducive to larger skein creation. Thank you again for your feedback! 😊🧶🕷🕸
Video very interesting and admire your drive to create your own yarn.
This was so interesting to watch. Really good if you are wanting to see if spinning is something you want to learn. TFS
Love this. Thinking I may have to try this one day. It looks fun too..and exercise too! ❤
I also enjoy felting, and know 2 spinners,, one lady comes to the fair, and spins angora bunny hair, and the other lady attends cracker country a pioneer village in Hillsborough county, she gave me some roving. I love all that stuff. But I have learned a lot from you.You are the sweetest person, Love you Craig. Thank you for your videos,
Oh, I am so glad you did this Tutorial on how to use your spinning wheel. I enjoyed it 😊😊. Thanks for your time and consideration 😊
This is really AWESOME!!! Thank you for sharing.
Super informative! Nice spidey spinning.
Great job and very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Love it! You've resparked my interest in spinning! I used to spin years ago and I am back at it again! Your such an enabler!
Loved this video. I haven't watched a video showing setup through spinning. This was informative and interesting. Thank you.
Amazing and awesome Spider!
Thank you for showing us this. I was curious about the whole thing.
Great job! I loved seeing your spinning In action. I have a 100 year old hand made spinning wheel I need to learn more about using. It's not as easy looking , I fear.
All wheels are simple. When it comes down to it, they’re a wheel with some method of turning, be it a treadle, treadleS, or a motor, with a drive band that turns the flyer, which twists your raw fibre. Adjusting the tension of the drive band and/or the tension band(a “scotch brake” wheel has a seperate tensioning band, other wheels just have the drive band), you just fiddle with that till it suits you and the yarn you wish to spin.....everyone tensions differently. There are ofc lots of nuances within that but these are what a wheel IS. Simple, ingenious technology that has been in use for thousands of years the world over.
Great info! Thank you!
Very interesting! I grow flax for our local historical society and have enough prepared to give to a friend to spin and weave into a piece of cloth that, when I do my flax-to-linen demonstrations, I can tell those watching that the piece of cloth I am holding is purely local. I too, have to make do without the usual flax processing tools, but it does work, although it can look rather comical. I am going to borrow a spindle from my office one of these days and try my hand at spinning, using your tutorial as a guide.....
Spinning is not something I want to do myself but I just loved watching you do it for all to see.
No need to apologize for your camera work.....its just FINE!
definitely mesmerizing. i love it, thank you!
p.s. i love your purple socks :-)
Good for your circulation as well, keeping your feet moving the whole time, thoroughly enjoyed watching your joy. 🤗
I thoroughly LOVED watching this. It was very informative, relaxing and fun! I would love to see you make and use your own yarn from start to finish. 💜💜💜
I just love that you are continuing to learn and share. Keep the great work going!!
You really do make it look so easy! And what ever the wheel, the process is the same. Thanks!
Great, now I wanna spin! Which means even more money on stuff!!
Your filming was just fine.this was a fun tutorial.Years ago I had wanted a spinning wheel. This gives people some insight into why some yarn from shops is very expensive .An education in all of the work people put into it is a good thing..I have an Alpaca farm down the road and plan on buying some yarn there. ❤
Thanks ❤ love that your teaching how to spin.
thank you for this video it really taught me some things about spinning
I like this video. It was teaching me if I would like to get one. I found it very interesting.
Just love your videos! Thank you for sharing.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing!
Very relaxing video, and I learned something. Thank you.
I love your wheel! I am hoping to take a day spinning workshop this year, I was taught as a child but that was a long long time ago lol love from the UK x
Good video. Thanks. I'm not going to spin. I decided when some people were telling me I should. I dont want the equipment. Also, if I started spinning, I'd probs never be able to stop. I love to watch the sheep to shawl event at the PA farm show.
Awesome job it’s looks very relaxing
I really enjoyed this! ty for introducing me to this particular type of wheel.
This was so much fun! 😁
Thanks so much was very helpful, I have the same wheel ..now time to practice , practice..
Great introduction. I think you could easily fit 4 oz on the bobbin. But you would need the 12 oz flyer and bobbin to ply it.
I love this! Thank you for sharing!! I love that you share the mistakes, so we can know what to expect and how to correct them! What a great video!!
Great instructional video - thank you! BTW, you can buy a 12 oz bobbin for the pollywog
How fun I also have the poliwog and I love it too.
This looks like so much fun! Thank you for showing us
thanks for sharing this, I think the more yardage you can spin the better so one needs a bobbin that can hold a sweaters quantity if possible 😀
Thougally enjoyed this video. Not something I am going to do but it was very interesting.
Thank you for this very interesting video - positive i wouldn't dare to do this but it is fascinating to see how it's done and what all the "pieces" are :-)
Absolutely enjoyed your video, I think your doing a great job, You got the feel for it. And that doesn't come automatically. One of my neighbors have sheep I saw they recently sheered them, so I want to find out if they have wool to sell, in Florida they mainly have meat sheep. So not sure what they are doing with the wool.But I want to find out, I don't have a spinning wheel, but I did make my own spindle. A lady I knew once promised me hers, she was a co worker and very generous, but we since parted ways. And never got the wheel. But it's something I wanted to learn. So thank you.
Great video 😁
I found it very mesmerising watching you spin x
Thank you so much!
Thank you for a great informative video spider , love watching whatever you do ❤️😊Amanda xx
Love watching you spin. Think about getting a Wooly Winder. It's a device that wraps the yarn evenly around the bobbin. Really cool 👍
Thank you this was very interesting
So interesting thankyou
I would love one of those! New friend Ruthie
I have fit 4 ounces on my 4 oz Spinolution bobbins, you fill them all the way to the edges. I have an Echo and want the Pollywog for a second wheel. I also have the 16 oz head for my Echo which can fit 8 oz bobbins and I have my 8 oz bobbin filled to the gills currently (and a bit rounded out in the middle, I wanted it all on there! 😂) with 8 oz of fiber.
An official spinster is a young maden making her first spool of yarn, but not impressing her intended and never weds. Check out the video
Hands, making an Irish spinning wheel.
I luv this ty for sharing
Thanks for sharing Mister Spinster I have been looking to buy a Spinning Wheel and have been trying to watch videos to see witch one I would like. This one seems very nice and solid, like you said you have to learn how to work them and the more you do the better you'll get. What is that saying Practice makes perfect.
Sandi Bozarth check your local yarn shop. Some near here let’s you rent wheels to see if you like them.
You are amazing this is so awesome
We've been WAITING!!
Thank you for showing us this wheel. I appreciate your videos! As an unmarried woman I would rather be called an old maid rather than a spinster. Just a side note on another use of the wordspinister.
It's good, amazing really, to hear a man admit to mistakes🙄
That was really interesting to see you spin. Thank you.
I'd like to see more of this.
Great video Greg! The bullfrog wasn't around when I tested the polywog. I love my Echo though. Are you spinning to the edge of the bobbin? That is where the 4 oz capacity comes into play. Just wanted to let you know.
Wow! Where are you with your spinning now? Can you update us on this? Thanks. Hope to buy a wheel someday!!!!
Can you buy bigger bobbins? I love this wheel now that you showed it
I just found your tutorial and it’s been 8 months. Do you still love it? I’m considering one and am new to spinning also.