Oh wow, a tiny electric spinning wheel!! I have a connective tissue disorder and spend a lot of time in bed, I don't think holding up a drop spindle or the posture to sit at a foot powered wheel would work for me. I just went to my first Fibershed event and have been mesmerized by spinning videos lately. I'm going to look into this, thank you!
It’s the Electric Eel Wheel Nano2 by Dreaming Robots (aka the EEW Nano2). I have one, and it’s bigger sibling, the EEW 6.1). Both are absolutely wonderful and affordable e-spinners. I have serious back issues that resulted in nerve damage and a reduced capacity to use my right leg. Pain is a daily thing and I can’t treadle on a traditional wheel. But I can spin up a storm on these. With a laptop tray or even a shallow serving tray on your lap you can even spin in bed. Hook these spinners up to a battery (for the Nano you can use a phone charger battery) you don’t need an outlet. Spin on long car rides, in bed, in a chair, at home or elsewhere, it doesn’t matter anymore. And one of those phone charger batteries gets you hours and hours of spinning before you have to recharge it. Definitely a solution for anyone who has issues treadling or who likes to spin just about anywhere.
@eddavanleemputten9232 thank you so much for chiming in and sharing your experience! Such great information, so good to know about the phone charger battery. As I watched the video, I was totally envisioning trying this with my laptop tray!
@ - Depending on how you sit in your bed and the type of laptop tray you have, one of those cheap no-slip drawer liners helps to keep the spinning wheel securely in place on the tray while spinning: if the tray is of the type that has a pillow attached underneath and a textured surface that keeps the suction cups on the wheel from working properly for example. My SO recently joked that the only place he probably won’t find me spinning is the bathtub. Because so far, my Nano has been used: At the office At the kitchen table On the couch In bed At the doctor’s/dentist’s office (waiting room) At the hairdresser’s In the car At a friend’s place … Soon it might even get used on an airplane. They tend to be finicky about knitting needles but not about spinning wheels. 😊
Every time I see a video in my recommendations that says someone is learning how to spin, my heart does a little happy dance because in August of last year, that was me and in November of last year I got my Nano2. Spinning and knitting are my happy places. I get to play with fibre and now I also get to customise my yarns to exactly how I want them. I wish you lots of happiness behind your spinning wheel, and later making gorgeous things from your own, home spun yarns.
Looks like you had so much fun learning! Can’t wait to see what you spin next. I still have no desire to spin but it was a lot of fun to watch. And Brianna was a great teacher!
Congratulations on learning to spin! I learned a year and a half ago, and I find it so therapeutic and meditative! You will find Andrea Mowry has a lot of patterns that are handspun friendly. My first spin to knit project was the Traveler Cowl, and I love it! Let the fibre do what it wants, go with the flow. Handspun yarn is magic!
Hi Natalie. Looks like you had fun with Brianna learning how to spin. It looks like you did really well. I have spun yarn on a wooden spin wheel and a drop spindle but not an electric one. I could see the yarn looking more even in thickness and looking neater as the week went on. Thanks for showing us all.
Briana and Natty!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!! My Nano has been in the box since last December. I have not used it At. All. This is probably the most helpful video I've seen so far.
Thank you for posting this, it is SO helpful. I am also just learning to spin, on an EEW 6.2 like you are, and it felt like Brianna was also speaking to me. And your first yarn looks AMAZING!
Welcome to the addiction! :) Since I got my own wheel in May, I've lost a lot of knitting time to spinning, BUT spinning helps me relax and get grounded. I've had frustrating days at work that I got through just because I said, "When this is done, I can spin." I'm not sure how it works, but it works, and there's nothing like knitting with your own handspun yarn! I've made several "purr pads" for my cats--my first attempts resulted in a lot of chunky yarn, but that's perfect for the kitties--and recently finished a cowl for myself, plus I have handspun in stash that will be a Traveler shawl, socks, and a hat. It's so cool! I came home from Rhinebeck with more fiber than yarn!
@@carlakempert1798 - I think it’s the combination of the rhythmic nature of the spinning itself, the soft purr of my e-spinner, the feel of the fibre and seeing that bobbin fill up. And the expectation of getting to use that hand spun yarn. 😊 Not to mention the satisfaction of then knowing “I made that. From scratch.” The control freak in me also likes the fact that I am calling the shots on colour, yarn weight, fibre content, etc. 😅
Oh, man, that was fun! And it makes me want to get out my wheel that hasn’t been touched in 15 years 😮. To use up the fiber that I moved 1200 miles and haven’t used in 15 years. Same conundrum that you mentioned, spinning time takes away from knitting time. Which is ironic because I wanted to learn to spin in the first because I loved knitting so much. Ah, such problems. You did amazingly well for your first try. Obviously, a natural. Thanks for sharing your learning process and kudos to Brianna for being a superb teacher.
I hope you enjoy your spinning journey, I love spinning. You’re doing great, I will tell you the same thing I told my grand daughter when she made mistakes when trying new things and would get anxious, “it’s OK, no one died” then I showed her how to fix the mistake.
I would love to learn how to spin one day. I've been lucky enough to knit with handspun yarn once and I actually really loved the subtle inconsistencies in the thickness - it was perfectly imperfect.
Go for it. I started to learn on spindles first (found out the drop spindle wasn’t my thing but the supported spindle was), quickly bought myself an EEW Nano2 (the wheel in this video) and now I’m seriously addicted to it. Last Summer I bought the larger EEW. My first spin ever happened in August of 2023. Haven’t regretted it for a minute. Home spun yarn is so nice to work with. You get to customise your yarn, your fibres, your colours, your blends. Weight for weight with identical fibre, if you shop smart, your yarn will cost less than commercial yarn. And you get to play with fibre/yarn for longer. That means over time, if you get an EEW of if you find a second hand treadle wheel your investment pays itself back. And as you’re entertaining yourself you’re not spending money elsewhere (couldn’t resist some healthy girl math 😂).
What an amazing teacher you had! I started spinning this year too and it took me weeks to get to your level! I’ve now swapped to a traditional spinning wheel and love it! The Nano would be perfect in your van though! Well done x
You learned so quick! As far as plying goes. The way I learned is to ply in such a way, that when you let a single strand of plied yarn dangle in a u shape, it won't twist itself again. It just dangles in a u shape. This makes it very easy to work with. When you have overplied yarn (yarn that twists itself again) and start knitting with it, the fabric will go diagonally rather than straight up. Which might be fine for a hat, but very annoying if you make a cardigan and want the front opening to be vertical.
This is exciting! I learned to spin almost 15 years ago and it's become more home to me than knitting. I hope you fall in love with it and it brings you so much joy!
Natalie - I’m so excited to watch you learn to spin! It’s such a satisfying fiber craft! I’ve been knitting for about 18 years and spinning only for 2. I never thought I would be so interested in hand spinning but it’s so creative in a unique way and really adds joy to my life! I especially love knitting with my handspun and hope you enjoy it as much as I do 🐑 🧶 🙌🏻 Fun to watch - great episode!
Welcome to the World of Spinning NATALLIE! I'm buying a Kromski Minstrel which you can get a Distaff. I do plan to get a eletiric one someday, but I am happy with the ones I will have. I have a Elizabethian Spinning Wheel that I NEVER get Rid of, but she is an antique and she is a hard pull. I will be honest I flack my Yarn in the Summer time as it's getting to become Cold outside in Minnesota and it will dry faster in the Sun. Plus I can gather yarn that I've made during the winter, and I live in the woods and I have to plow my road and help bring in some wood during the really cold times.
I am so pleased to see you spinning and making the EWNano your friend. You have a very good teacher and I love your achievement. I have watched every thing you post, and have been inspired to get back to knitting and spinning. Thank you. Safe travels.
LOVE seeing you two work together!!!! GREAT teacher and STUDENT! Great spinning video! I too never had an interest in spinning but this makes me want to try!!!
You inspired me. My mom loves all the process of making yarn the Navajo traditional way, but I like what I saw. Though, the Navajo way is not costly as to all the machinery you used...that is definitely costly but an investment. Maybe...;)).
Such a cutie episode! Briana is so lovely in explaining and encouraging 💖! I'm trying to learn to spin on my grandma's in hand spindle (similar to the french spindle), but it's not even close to yarn 🙈😳
Hello Natalie and Bri!! So fun watching you two ❤ If I remember right Briana started spinning last year or the year before. I remember she got her spindle at Rhinebeck! Great Job Natty.
You have a very good teacher. Just relax and follow her directions. Later, after you get comfortable with spinning, you’ll be able to tweak your work and try different techniques. Welcome to the world of spinning…. 🤗😃🤩
Well done!!! I’ve been teaching myself spinning with good fiber for a couple years now, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!! This video taught me some things, too!!
Welcome to the club! It took me way longer to get where you are. I am a right handed person but I spin left hand forward. I have saved my first spins and wove them into mug rugs. I am currently knitting Andrea Mowry's traveler hoodie with my handspun. Took me almost 3 years to get here but I am totally self taught. I have a spinolution pollywog and a Dreaming Robots 6.0 e spinner and a couple of spindles.
Oh my... I didn't got this spinning rabbit hole really, but now you made me freaking excited about spinning. That video was lovely and you are so lucky to have such a good and patient teacher (and friend) with you. I hope to see more about spinning from you soon! 🙂
Oh my goodness how amazing! This was so much fun to watch. Great job trying something new. I'm the worst at being new at things. Thank you for showing us your experience.
Congratulations on your first skein, it came out so great! As my friends told me when I started: keep it forever, because it will never look like this again :) It's great that you learned on an e-spinner -- I've always thought that they're much easier to learn for the first time, since all you have to do is focus on drafting (versus a traditional wheel where you have to keep your feet going as well!). I also found it interesting that Briana taught you a more long-draw-type technique -- I'm still new and I generally use short-forward since it's easier for me. Maybe something you want to try next time! :)
Oh wow Natalie, you did great. I told you I took a drop spindle class at Rhinebeck but I just ordered the bigger version of that e spinner. Brianna is a great teacher and I will be referring back to this video for help!!! I can’t wait to see all the beautiful yarn you will spin.
Moisture is a good way to get fibers to stick lol. Yes, spit is gross haha and you could use water. Moisture will felt the fiber a little to make it stick together.
Oh my goodness. I went to a fiber festival a while back and saw the little spinning machines. Wow.!!! Does this make spinning doable? It looks so fun. I am aquainted with a community that could teach me. Do I really want to fall down that rabbit hole? Thank toy so much. I may be watching this video a few more times😂
Starting on an e-wheel takes treadling (using your feet to spin a wheel) - out of the process, so you can just concentrate on drafting mechanics. So it's a great place to start and then graduate up to a traditional wheel.
I learned pretty much alone. Noone told me alpaca was hard so I started with a kilo of alpaca tops. (Don’t do that). Everything else has felt pretty easy since.
OK, so this is going to be a super random comment, but hear me out: Briana sounds so much like Jinx from Arcane (Netflix) it gave me a little start.... Awesome video as well! 🧡
Omg! I love this! Spinning is so addicting. Also where did the case for her nano come from?! I’m trying to find a better storage option for my e spinner.
Are some of the difficulties you faced due to the e-spinner being on the low end? (I guess this question is more for Brianna as your teacher, rather than you as the student.)
Her difficulties really came down to learning the machine and practicing general spinning techniques. I love the quality of these e-spinners personally
My difficulties were definitely because it was my first time spinning! I have no complaints about this wheel, but I have nothing to compare it to either. From what I've heard, once you get more comfortable with spinning, this wheel just doesn't have the capacity (speed or size) to keep up with bigger spins. But time will tell for me! I think it's amazing for someone that wants to learn without investing in an expensive wheel.
@@KnittyNatty Thanks for replying. I'm absolutely shocked that this allows someone to spin for under $1200 and can fit into a backpack. I'm surprised these aren't talked about more.
I don't know, you are kinda cheating with the Nano(I have one too) and not having to coordinate the feet and hands but that being said You have done amazing for your first spin. I need to send you a spinning goody box.
I really struggled with both a drop spindle and wheel with a treadle. In education we do something called "scaffolding" - teaching in stages that build on each other. I think the e-spinner was a great place to start because I only had to focus on drafting. Later, I hope to spin on a wheel with a treadle!
@@KnittyNatty I definitely agree with you on that, I was just teasing you. I taught myself not knowing anyone who spun and it can be like patting your head and rubbing your belly. I was doing it with my 10 year old neighbor girl one day and she work the treadle while I spun but when I teach her to spin I will use the Nano first.
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Spinning is so relaxing once you really get the hang of it and that first skein will make a lovely textured cowl or scarf. Treasure it!
Briana seems like such a good teacher! So nice to watch good friends working together so sweetly.
Oh wow, a tiny electric spinning wheel!!
I have a connective tissue disorder and spend a lot of time in bed, I don't think holding up a drop spindle or the posture to sit at a foot powered wheel would work for me. I just went to my first Fibershed event and have been mesmerized by spinning videos lately. I'm going to look into this, thank you!
Do it!!!
It’s the Electric Eel Wheel Nano2 by Dreaming Robots (aka the EEW Nano2). I have one, and it’s bigger sibling, the EEW 6.1). Both are absolutely wonderful and affordable e-spinners. I have serious back issues that resulted in nerve damage and a reduced capacity to use my right leg. Pain is a daily thing and I can’t treadle on a traditional wheel. But I can spin up a storm on these.
With a laptop tray or even a shallow serving tray on your lap you can even spin in bed. Hook these spinners up to a battery (for the Nano you can use a phone charger battery) you don’t need an outlet. Spin on long car rides, in bed, in a chair, at home or elsewhere, it doesn’t matter anymore. And one of those phone charger batteries gets you hours and hours of spinning before you have to recharge it.
Definitely a solution for anyone who has issues treadling or who likes to spin just about anywhere.
@eddavanleemputten9232 thank you so much for chiming in and sharing your experience! Such great information, so good to know about the phone charger battery. As I watched the video, I was totally envisioning trying this with my laptop tray!
@ - Depending on how you sit in your bed and the type of laptop tray you have, one of those cheap no-slip drawer liners helps to keep the spinning wheel securely in place on the tray while spinning: if the tray is of the type that has a pillow attached underneath and a textured surface that keeps the suction cups on the wheel from working properly for example.
My SO recently joked that the only place he probably won’t find me spinning is the bathtub. Because so far, my Nano has been used:
At the office
At the kitchen table
On the couch
In bed
At the doctor’s/dentist’s office (waiting room)
At the hairdresser’s
In the car
At a friend’s place
…
Soon it might even get used on an airplane. They tend to be finicky about knitting needles but not about spinning wheels. 😊
@@eddavanleemputten9232 ha! I love this so much! I'm definitely asking Santa 😆💝
Briana is a brilliant teacher, and you did such a good job for your first time!!
I'm so excited for you to learn to spin!
Look at you go!!! Brianna is such an amazing teacher 😊 I’ll make sure to come back to this video when I’m ready to start spinning.
Every time I see a video in my recommendations that says someone is learning how to spin, my heart does a little happy dance because in August of last year, that was me and in November of last year I got my Nano2. Spinning and knitting are my happy places. I get to play with fibre and now I also get to customise my yarns to exactly how I want them.
I wish you lots of happiness behind your spinning wheel, and later making gorgeous things from your own, home spun yarns.
Wow… I’m just starting my spinning , Journey, adventure, ? . I feel so excited thanks😃
Thanks so much for sharing. I had no idea how many steps were involved
Looks like you had so much fun learning! Can’t wait to see what you spin next. I still have no desire to spin but it was a lot of fun to watch. And Brianna was a great teacher!
Best video!! Love seeing your friendship and I just started spinning about 6 months ago so I really enjoyed watching you learn Natalie!!
I learned so much from this video! Thank you so much 🥰
Congratulations on learning to spin! I learned a year and a half ago, and I find it so therapeutic and meditative! You will find Andrea Mowry has a lot of patterns that are handspun friendly. My first spin to knit project was the Traveler Cowl, and I love it! Let the fibre do what it wants, go with the flow. Handspun yarn is magic!
Hi Natalie. Looks like you had fun with Brianna learning how to spin. It looks like you did really well. I have spun yarn on a wooden spin wheel and a drop spindle but not an electric one. I could see the yarn looking more even in thickness and looking neater as the week went on. Thanks for showing us all.
Briana and Natty!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!! My Nano has been in the box since last December. I have not used it At. All. This is probably the most helpful video I've seen so far.
Thank you for posting this, it is SO helpful. I am also just learning to spin, on an EEW 6.2 like you are, and it felt like Brianna was also speaking to me. And your first yarn looks AMAZING!
Welcome to the addiction! :) Since I got my own wheel in May, I've lost a lot of knitting time to spinning, BUT spinning helps me relax and get grounded. I've had frustrating days at work that I got through just because I said, "When this is done, I can spin." I'm not sure how it works, but it works, and there's nothing like knitting with your own handspun yarn! I've made several "purr pads" for my cats--my first attempts resulted in a lot of chunky yarn, but that's perfect for the kitties--and recently finished a cowl for myself, plus I have handspun in stash that will be a Traveler shawl, socks, and a hat. It's so cool! I came home from Rhinebeck with more fiber than yarn!
@@carlakempert1798 - I think it’s the combination of the rhythmic nature of the spinning itself, the soft purr of my e-spinner, the feel of the fibre and seeing that bobbin fill up. And the expectation of getting to use that hand spun yarn. 😊
Not to mention the satisfaction of then knowing “I made that. From scratch.”
The control freak in me also likes the fact that I am calling the shots on colour, yarn weight, fibre content, etc. 😅
@ a friend of mine nearly lost her mind when she dyed fiber, then spun it into yarn and *then* knit it into a hat. 😀
So cool to have such a great teacher. I have been teaching myself drop spindling and really want to try an e-spinner.
Oh, man, that was fun! And it makes me want to get out my wheel that hasn’t been touched in 15 years 😮. To use up the fiber that I moved 1200 miles and haven’t used in 15 years. Same conundrum that you mentioned, spinning time takes away from knitting time. Which is ironic because I wanted to learn to spin in the first because I loved knitting so much. Ah, such problems. You did amazingly well for your first try. Obviously, a natural. Thanks for sharing your learning process and kudos to Brianna for being a superb teacher.
That was so interesting. You caught on fast.
welcome to spinning!
I love the orange-yellow -brown sweater of Bryana
So pretty right! That's one of her colorways and her pattern too!
I hope you enjoy your spinning journey, I love spinning. You’re doing great, I will tell you the same thing I told my grand daughter when she made mistakes when trying new things and would get anxious, “it’s OK, no one died” then I showed her how to fix the mistake.
I would love to learn how to spin one day. I've been lucky enough to knit with handspun yarn once and I actually really loved the subtle inconsistencies in the thickness - it was perfectly imperfect.
Go for it. I started to learn on spindles first (found out the drop spindle wasn’t my thing but the supported spindle was), quickly bought myself an EEW Nano2 (the wheel in this video) and now I’m seriously addicted to it. Last Summer I bought the larger EEW.
My first spin ever happened in August of 2023. Haven’t regretted it for a minute. Home spun yarn is so nice to work with. You get to customise your yarn, your fibres, your colours, your blends. Weight for weight with identical fibre, if you shop smart, your yarn will cost less than commercial yarn. And you get to play with fibre/yarn for longer. That means over time, if you get an EEW of if you find a second hand treadle wheel your investment pays itself back. And as you’re entertaining yourself you’re not spending money elsewhere (couldn’t resist some healthy girl math 😂).
What an amazing teacher you had! I started spinning this year too and it took me weeks to get to your level! I’ve now swapped to a traditional spinning wheel and love it! The Nano would be perfect in your van though! Well done x
Hello from Swansea, Illinois. ❤❤❤❤
I’ve wanted to try spinning - I have 2 drop spindles actually, but I really want to try an espinner now! Thanks for showing your adventure learning!
You learned so quick!
As far as plying goes. The way I learned is to ply in such a way, that when you let a single strand of plied yarn dangle in a u shape, it won't twist itself again. It just dangles in a u shape. This makes it very easy to work with. When you have overplied yarn (yarn that twists itself again) and start knitting with it, the fabric will go diagonally rather than straight up. Which might be fine for a hat, but very annoying if you make a cardigan and want the front opening to be vertical.
Ooh thank you so much for this tip. I will check for that when I ply my next skein!
I think you are really brave to learn on camera! Thank you for including us (and for inspiring me to get back to my wheel)
This is exciting! I learned to spin almost 15 years ago and it's become more home to me than knitting. I hope you fall in love with it and it brings you so much joy!
great job! So much fun to watch. I started using a drop spindle recently so I get everything you were experiencing especially the breaking! 🤣
I feel like I learned so much watching you learn (as opppsed to an intentional tutorial video). Thanks for sharing your process!!
Great job!!
I’d like to sign up for a week at Briana’s house and learn to spin lol. I got the EEW 6.1 and I’m loving it!
Natalie - I’m so excited to watch you learn to spin! It’s such a satisfying fiber craft!
I’ve been knitting for about 18 years and spinning only for 2. I never thought I would be so interested in hand spinning but it’s so creative in a unique way and really adds joy to my life!
I especially love knitting with my handspun and hope you enjoy it as much as I do 🐑 🧶 🙌🏻 Fun to watch - great episode!
Welcome to the World of Spinning NATALLIE! I'm buying a Kromski Minstrel which you can get a Distaff. I do plan to get a eletiric one someday, but I am happy with the ones I will have. I have a Elizabethian Spinning Wheel that I NEVER get Rid of, but she is an antique and she is a hard pull. I will be honest I flack my Yarn in the Summer time as it's getting to become Cold outside in Minnesota and it will dry faster in the Sun. Plus I can gather yarn that I've made during the winter, and I live in the woods and I have to plow my road and help bring in some wood during the really cold times.
I am so pleased to see you spinning and making the EWNano your friend. You have a very good teacher and I love your achievement. I have watched every thing you post, and have been inspired to get back to knitting and spinning. Thank you. Safe travels.
LOVE seeing you two work together!!!! GREAT teacher and STUDENT! Great spinning video! I too never had an interest in spinning but this makes me want to try!!!
You inspired me. My mom loves all the process of making yarn the Navajo traditional way, but I like what I saw. Though, the Navajo way is not costly as to all the machinery you used...that is definitely costly but an investment. Maybe...;)).
Step by step! So kindly taught
Such a cutie episode! Briana is so lovely in explaining and encouraging 💖!
I'm trying to learn to spin on my grandma's in hand spindle (similar to the french spindle), but it's not even close to yarn 🙈😳
Hello Natalie and Bri!! So fun watching you two ❤ If I remember right Briana started spinning last year or the year before. I remember she got her spindle at Rhinebeck! Great Job Natty.
Yay! I'm so excited to see you kick off your spinning journey!
I want to learn to spin! Saving this video 😊
I’ve been wanting to learn to spin and this is such a good video!! Thank you for showing the process
You have a very good teacher. Just relax and follow her directions. Later, after you get comfortable with spinning, you’ll be able to tweak your work and try different techniques. Welcome to the world of spinning…. 🤗😃🤩
Thank you! Yes, Briana was so great!
Well done!!! I’ve been teaching myself spinning with good fiber for a couple years now, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!! This video taught me some things, too!!
I’m so excited to watch my two favorite bloggers together!
Aww thank you!
I learned so much ! Ty !
What a great episode! I loved how you learned to do this from a friend. What a great memory!
Hooray! Welcome to the new spinners club!
Welcome to the club! It took me way longer to get where you are. I am a right handed person but I spin left hand forward. I have saved my first spins and wove them into mug rugs. I am currently knitting Andrea Mowry's traveler hoodie with my handspun. Took me almost 3 years to get here but I am totally self taught. I have a spinolution pollywog and a Dreaming Robots 6.0 e spinner and a couple of spindles.
I got rid of the Nano as I was having real difficulty with take up. I invested in the 6.0 and am much happier.
Oh my... I didn't got this spinning rabbit hole really, but now you made me freaking excited about spinning. That video was lovely and you are so lucky to have such a good and patient teacher (and friend) with you.
I hope to see more about spinning from you soon! 🙂
Hair goes up, Natalie: “this is getting serious” 😅
Oh my goodness how amazing! This was so much fun to watch. Great job trying something new. I'm the worst at being new at things. Thank you for showing us your experience.
So interesting! Thank you for showing the spinning process. So much information!
I hope you kept the wheel. You can get a little battery for it to make van spinning easier
This is really useful, thank you!
Love this! I want to learn and would like a recommendation for an electric spinner that will spin art yarns as well. Thank you!
Congratulations on your first skein, it came out so great! As my friends told me when I started: keep it forever, because it will never look like this again :) It's great that you learned on an e-spinner -- I've always thought that they're much easier to learn for the first time, since all you have to do is focus on drafting (versus a traditional wheel where you have to keep your feet going as well!). I also found it interesting that Briana taught you a more long-draw-type technique -- I'm still new and I generally use short-forward since it's easier for me. Maybe something you want to try next time! :)
Oh wow Natalie, you did great. I told you I took a drop spindle class at Rhinebeck but I just ordered the bigger version of that e spinner. Brianna is a great teacher and I will be referring back to this video for help!!! I can’t wait to see all the beautiful yarn you will spin.
Moisture is a good way to get fibers to stick lol. Yes, spit is gross haha and you could use water. Moisture will felt the fiber a little to make it stick together.
Oh my goodness. I went to a fiber festival a while back and saw the little spinning machines. Wow.!!! Does this make spinning doable? It looks so fun. I am aquainted with a community that could teach me. Do I really want to fall down that rabbit hole? Thank toy so much. I may be watching this video a few more times😂
Starting on an e-wheel takes treadling (using your feet to spin a wheel) - out of the process, so you can just concentrate on drafting mechanics. So it's a great place to start and then graduate up to a traditional wheel.
I learned pretty much alone. Noone told me alpaca was hard so I started with a kilo of alpaca tops. (Don’t do that). Everything else has felt pretty easy since.
Niddy noddy sounds like knitty natty lol
OK, so this is going to be a super random comment, but hear me out: Briana sounds so much like Jinx from Arcane (Netflix) it gave me a little start....
Awesome video as well! 🧡
YESSSSS
Omg! I love this! Spinning is so addicting. Also where did the case for her nano come from?! I’m trying to find a better storage option for my e spinner.
What is that orange hoodie Briana is wearing when you learn to ply?? It's a gorgeous pattern!
It's her pattern! The Second Ave Sweatshirt: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/second-ave-sweatshirt
Are some of the difficulties you faced due to the e-spinner being on the low end? (I guess this question is more for Brianna as your teacher, rather than you as the student.)
Her difficulties really came down to learning the machine and practicing general spinning techniques. I love the quality of these e-spinners personally
@@acacia7268 Thanks so much. I was considering maybe buying this for someone as a gift as the price is insane for what it does.
My difficulties were definitely because it was my first time spinning! I have no complaints about this wheel, but I have nothing to compare it to either. From what I've heard, once you get more comfortable with spinning, this wheel just doesn't have the capacity (speed or size) to keep up with bigger spins. But time will tell for me! I think it's amazing for someone that wants to learn without investing in an expensive wheel.
@@KnittyNatty Thanks for replying. I'm absolutely shocked that this allows someone to spin for under $1200 and can fit into a backpack. I'm surprised these aren't talked about more.
@@KnittyNattyvery helpful ty !
I don't know, you are kinda cheating with the Nano(I have one too) and not having to coordinate the feet and hands but that being said You have done amazing for your first spin. I need to send you a spinning goody box.
I really struggled with both a drop spindle and wheel with a treadle. In education we do something called "scaffolding" - teaching in stages that build on each other. I think the e-spinner was a great place to start because I only had to focus on drafting. Later, I hope to spin on a wheel with a treadle!
@@KnittyNatty I definitely agree with you on that, I was just teasing you. I taught myself not knowing anyone who spun and it can be like patting your head and rubbing your belly. I was doing it with my 10 year old neighbor girl one day and she work the treadle while I spun but when I teach her to spin I will use the Nano first.
Who cares? How can you cheat at a craft? No ones getting graded lol
@Lisa_Flowers I was just teasing her, if you read our replies I think it is a great way to learn.