http://www.spininpublic.com/spinterviews Spin in Public - Interviews Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:53:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the time of writing, I have been spinning for 2 years. I am an okay spinner, I guess, and completely self taught: I have never even seen another spinner in real life! I don’t really remember what prompted me to try it. I’m the type of person who tries a ... http://www.spininpublic.com/spinterviews/?p=107 Hello, my name is Natasha Sills and I have a serious problem. I have craft-related attention deficit disorder (CRADD). I hop around from hobby to hobby, learning each new technique until I have a few projects under my belt, and then something new catches my eye. At some point or another ... http://www.spininpublic.com/spinterviews/?p=103 Five years ago, I wanted to spin my own yarn. As an observer, my gaze would be transfixed on a spinner.  I watched her foot treadle on a pedal of an elaborate spinning wheel. At the same time, pulling on the wool fibers as the wheel and spool spun round ... http://www.spininpublic.com/spinterviews/?p=100 While growing up, my mom had a spinning wheel as a decoration in her living room.  It didn't have all it's working parts and was painted black.  I desperately wanted to spin it.  Not actually spin yarn, just to make the wheel turn.  That, however, was forbidden.  As I grew ... http://www.spininpublic.com/spinterviews/?p=97 Patchwork landscape beginnings… I’ve always loved making things.  One of my earliest textile projects was a hand-sewn patchwork ‘landscape’ to spread out around my little toy horse stable.  It was made from fabric and wool scraps and I gradually added to it over time (between the ages of about 7 to ... http://www.spininpublic.com/spinterviews/?p=94 Her name is Teresa Clayton. She refers to herself as, “The Treadler, a spinstery super-hero of the woolen world”. And, she speaks of herself in the third person (as in it is me who is ‘she’ telling you about ‘her’). Most importantly she will not / CANNOT stop tinkering with ... http://www.spininpublic.com/spinterviews/?p=92 I’m a 26 year old fiber addict from Muskegon, Michigan who is obsessed with soft fibers and intense color! I married my loving and supportive husband Eric in October 2007, and promptly found spinning and fiber two months later, my second love! For the past 2 years all things fiber ... http://www.spininpublic.com/spinterviews/?p=90 I read somewhere that our lives are written straight with crooked lines. The older I get, the more I think that life is really a circle made of tangled skeins. There are so many skeins that intertwine to bring me back home; in this case, quite literally. Last October, we moved ... http://www.spininpublic.com/spinterviews/?p=86 My feet depress the treadles – left, right, left, right – with the steadiness of a metronome. They provide the bass line while the movement of my hands provides the harmony. The song my wheel sings depends on what I am spinning… the improvisation of art yarn, the orchestral movements ... http://www.spininpublic.com/spinterviews/?p=84 I’ve always been a skill collector. The more things I knew how to do, the more things I would not have to pay others to do for me – and the less money I’d need to earn, leaving me more time to do those things! This viewpoint does have drawbacks ... http://www.spininpublic.com/spinterviews/?p=81