![\"Azel](\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/fiber\/wheelAW.jpg\")
<\/a>\nGreat wheel by Azel Wilder from my Grandfather
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Now I needed to learn to spin. My friend, Wallie, made sure of that. We lived in Philadelphia and she found a lecture in a library, \u201cjust over the bridge\u2019, in NJ. Given by fiber artist, Pam Pawl, it was all about spinning and its cousin weaving. Out of that meeting, a group of us formed the South Jersey Guild of Spinners and Handweavers. I was the guild\u2019s second president.<\/p>\n
I got a drop spindle, hand cards and some wool and learned to spin. Next was sending to New Zealand for my Ashford Spinning Wheel kit which I sanded, finished and put together. We had meetings at members\u2019 homes, held Sheep to Shawl festivals, weaving shows, and learned to dye our own fiber. I made wonderful friends and learned my way around South Jersey. <\/p>\n
Along the way I acquired a 4 harness counter balance loom and began weaving. Later a small Harrisville loom and a large AVL loom joined my world. Samples of my weaving are on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n I\u2019ve sold the AVL but still have the others. They are stored away but you never know. I still spin!\n<\/p>\n \n Was going through some old files this weekend and came across things from when I first started working with fibers. I had been given an old walking wheel that my grandfather said had been his mother\u2019s in Nova Scotia, BUT. . . he always enjoyed a good tale and as the wheel had been made… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,10],"tags":[70,73,108,295,296,297],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","category-fiber","tag-spinning","tag-spinning-wheel","tag-weaving","tag-azel-wilder","tag-south-jersey-guild-of-spinners-and-handweavers","tag-ashford-spinning-wheels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nMy first loom – had its limits but I loved it!<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nNewspaper clipping of a Spinning\/Dying event we held. So much fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"