To make handspun yarn, you don’t have to use a spinning wheel. Drop spindle spinning is easy to learn, portable and less expensive.

Yarn Spinning with a Modern Twist: How to Create Your Own Gorgeous Yarns Using a Drop Spindle Vanessa Kroening. Search, $23.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-78221-794-7 ...

Drop spindles don’t spin yarn very quickly, so most spinners using these spindles keep only a small amount of fiber on hand. “The drop spindle is one of the oldest tools,” Thompson said.

Learn how to turn wool roving into yarn! In this beginner workshop, participants will learn the park and draft method of spinning on a drop spindle and create their first skein of yarn. All ...

At the time Brock was willing to pay for high quality yarn, but she wasn’t willing to invest hundreds in a spinning wheel or even $20 for a basic drop spindle like her friend’s.

To his workshop attendees though, he must appear like an earthy magician who keeps a bow, a chopstick and a spindle from his bag and transfixes them by slowly de-seeding a freshly-plucked cotton ...