We are jumping for joy with our first issue!

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Spindle and Wheel!

Shetland sheep are making a comeback from near extinction after a very close call.  Their numbers are growing yearly as more and more people are breeding these incredible and loveable creatures.

To begin a business in the wool industry is a risky venture, but when it's meant to be, it happens.  While struggling to make a living raising sheep the founders, Harlan and Janet Brown left with a load of market sheep in 1980 and came back with a semi trailer load of carding and spinning equipment, and Brown Sheep Company was born. 

Bissell Powerforce Turbo

My yarn is ropey and all snarled together with lots of hard scratchy bumps in it.  I am trying to make a nice even yarn, but this is so horrible I wonder if I will ever get something even usable.  It is so knotty I can't ply it and I feel like I made a big mistake buying a spinning wheel, can you help?

Good family fun! 

No, it’s not THAT kind of men’s room.  This is a place where I get to talk about spinning and the fiber arts from a man’s perspective.  And while this space will be filled with a man’s views on spinning, I think you ladies out there will find the information useful too, or at least entertaining.

How can you do a book review and not start with the infamous Elizabeth Zimmerman?

Top 10 ways to tell if you're a fiber addict. 

My Great Grama and Her Socks 

I admit that I have a little problem, you see I have quite a bit of yarn and roving laying around the place.  Now I placed most of it that wasn't put away in lovely baskets, so that it would look nicer.  This worked for sometime until my little angel became the Yarn Pillager.