I am getting either a BlueBonnet Honeybee or Thimble for my birthday.
http://www.woolery.com/store/pc/Bluebonnet-Spinning-Wheels-c610.htm
Anyone have one or used one? Thoughts?
Most wheels are far too expensive and the ‘cheapest’ wheel by Schacht is made out of MDF!
A good spinning friend of mine in MN has a Thimble as her traveling wheel (she has a flock of others at home). Here is what she says about it,
I travel with my Bluebonnet Thimble - which is BASED on the MajaCraft design- and it will spin anything- thick, thin, bulky, artyarn, long draw, woolen, worsted, or inch worm. The treadling is “gaited” and momentum driven more like a single treadle wheel with a dead spot at the apex of the circle- as opposed to a continual circular rotary kind of treading that you get with MajaCrafts. Once you are used to it- it is perfectly natural- but there are those who neve get used to that feature and opt for a different wheel
Hopefully it will be OK for me…
When you get it, pictures are mandatory!! :woot:
In earlyish May, I hope…