Enter...."hip spinning!"
That is setting the spindolyn on an angle and off to the side of your body so that you can spin across your lap and not have to lift your arm very high.
The only problem I have with this is that my ample thigh needs a little more clearance room, so I am thinking of a sort of little pillow thingie to prop the spindolyn against...or maybe a bean bag base with extra side padding...Anyway, it was a perfect sunday, my son and his lady came to visit, a nice, long, good old fashioned southern summer visit. Then when they left, I sat down in the fading afternoon light and spun from the hip for a while, then later in the evening, when "Nature" came on, I discovered that this angle of spinnning allows me to look straight through the drafting yarn, to the TV, so I don't have to miss any of the wonderful ocean photography.
I got this much done yesterday (!) in two short sittings, and owe it to the angle.
You can see from the photo that my spinning is sort of sloppy, this is hand carded, gnoppy fleece, and I would prefer to be relaxed and enjoying my fleece, rather than be too perfectionist about it. I am not worried about the pigtails, they will all come out in the ply!
3 comments:
your "inventiveness" is an inspiration, looks like a good stress reliever too !
Great idea! I've been trying to figure out how to get my arms down a bit. I've got to find the right pillow and then try it. Thanks.
Hi Linda,
I ended up taking the "panty hose bean bag" insert that was inside my spindolyn bean bag base cover out and doubling it over next to my thigh. So, if my bean bag base was twice as fat, that would keep it away from my thigh enough, OR, maybe a tube sock filled with rice or even a fat paperback book or something, then you could leave it in the bean bag base....hmmmm
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