This is my new baby, a Navajo Supported Spindle. Burning Sun, is created and sold by Etsy seller Roosterick. The "original pyrographic (wood burned) and ink design [is] by Georgianne "Mother Hen" Jackofsky." It's a beautiful thing. It comes with a special and matching wooden cup that supports the metal spindle tip while you use it. The bottom of the little cup has sticky stuff resembling the rubbery mesh underlayment used for rugs and stops it from skittering all over a tile or wood floor. I don't seem to need it as much on carpet. Although I'm now so used to it being supported and staying in one spot I do find I prefer to use the little cup, even on the carpet.
Burning Sun is seen here nestled in it's very own Neela Market Tote along with some lovely Combed Merino Top fiber. The tote has two inner pockets designed to hold bottles or other market produce, like celery, upright. But that enables the spindle with it's 33" shaft to stay upright. I added red triangular and green coned knitting needle caps to the top of the spike to warn me it's there. And, hopefully that will be enough to prevent me from potentially impaling myself on the tip. Or, as it were, being hoist on one's own...spindle! The tote is inexpensive, comes in other great patterns and colors, holds one or two spindles and lots of fiber and even better, it's weightless!
Whether it's a boyfriend or a spinning wheel it's so hard to part with your first one! I loved this Double Treadle Ashford Traditional Wheel, but the time had come. After I got the Majacraft Pioneer, which is much easier for me to haul around, as well as my Navajo Supported Spindle for those really small spaces, I needed to move the Ashford along to someone who would appreciate all it had to offer. One really can't handle more than one at a time - come to think of it that goes for men too!
I'd installed one upgrade, I'd replaced the little things that hold the spindle onto the maiden with the newest versions. They enable me to switch spindles quickly and easily. Maggie Casey had kindly looked it over while I was taking her popular Beginning Spinning Class at her shop in Boulder, Colorado. She declared it "a nice little wheel." Since she's sold them since the 1960's she'd know, and I certainly agree. She also suggested the upgrade I made to it. Maggie mentioned that she thought it had some pretty "tiger wood" on it...see the back leg in the picture and it's natural striping. So, I no longer have to look for a good home for my baby - it's gone to a Crochet designer who wants to be a new spinner and who loves it already! Gonna miss it for a while tho' - just like my first boyfriend!
