Create a Sacred Spinning Space

When life gets busy with other obligations and promises, spinning may take a back seat and soon we notice a day or week or month has gone by and our spindles and spinning wheels are covered with a layer of dust.  This may bring up feelings of sadness for not spinning or guilt at leaving a project partially completed.  Those feelings can lead to resistance to coming back to our art.

Returning to spinning doesn’t have to be difficult, and with a little imagination, we can recapture that enthusiasm and create a sacred spinning space.

Change Your Wheel’s Geography

If you always spin in one corner of your basement family room, move upstairs near the living room window.  Or if you are tight on space you could turn your wheel to face a different direction.  The new orientation of your wheel may be just enough change that it catches your eye every day and pulls you back in for some quality fluff time.

A special space for spinning can make you
want to pick the fluff and find comfort.

Pretty Up Your Space

Is there room to add a small table with a lamp and a plant?  Even if your green thumb is really brown, a pot of pretty silk flowers might brighten up your space and encourage you to try new colour combinations with your spinning. Accessorize with a pretty bowl to hold your fibre so that you are excited to return to your spinning space.

Learn a New Spinning Technique

Trying something new is a great way to bust out boredom.  Have you always wanted to do core spinning or make a delicious boucle yarn? Take a class or buy a book or find instructions on the internet. Find a technique that grabs you and practice it until you get it. The possibilities are endless for you to try something new.

Whatever the reason that you have fallen off the spinning wheel, climbing back on should be fun.  Finding the inspiration to return to spinning can be difficult journey, but it is worth it if it means picking up our fibre and settling into the comforting rhythm of the wheel turning.