Pictures! (poor quality but they're still pictures!)

Before you go any further, I want to say that the pictures were taken by me and that is why they are of such poor quality. My blog photographer (aka, Emily) told me that I was on my own for pics this evening, so I had to fend for myself. :-/ I'm sure there's some sort of button you can push on the camera to make them turn out better; I just don't know which one it is. ;)

But here are some pics of my new spinning wheel! :D

Yup, a bad shot. Unfortunately the wheel only fits in one spot of our sewing room, and there just happens to be a window right there, which is why it's been so hard for us to take any pictures of it.

one of the names of this kind of wheel is the 'walking wheel' because you do indeed walk back and forth in a slow manner while spinning. Pioneer women would often walk twenty miles in a day spinning on one of these!

Here's a pic of my Ahsford wheel and my kick spindle next to my Great wheel (these huge wheels are known as Great wheels, walking wheels and wool wheels). You can't even see the top of it! :D Suprisingly, it's really light; probably around 12 pounds in all.

Being the odd person that I am, I had to give it a name (yep, I'm strange ;D). My Ashford's name is Patsy and my Great wheel is Melba. For some reason I've always liked the name Melba.... And Elaine..... ;)

~Caitlyn