Homemade and bought spindles

I made stone whorl spindles! (ok, my boyfriend helped) I bought all the supplies on ebay, there are so many stones on offer and so cheap. Also chopsticks and rubber grommet thingies to attach the stones to the sticks. So far I have these two, I'm still waiting for turquoise and opalite whorls. (if you do search on ebay, type in donut bead to see the huge selection). These are not the best or fastest spindles, but so cheap (under $10) and pretty. The chopsticks should be ebony, but it doesn't look like ebony to me. I stained one black using permanent marker topped with dark wood stain. Also, my boyfriend made a notch on the darker whorl... he's so sweet.

Taketo vretienka som vyrobila! Z kamienkov a cinskych paliciek kupenych na ebay. Frajer pomahal s vrtanim hacikov. Jednu z paliciek som zafarbila ciernou fixkou a navrch som pridala lak na drevo aby sa to cele zafixovalo. Velmi sa mi pacia, aj ked to nie su najlepsie alebo najrychlejsie vretienka, urcite su najkrajsie (aspon pre mna).

agate whorls

test spinning, merino/silk

I bought this beauty, made by Jesh, from her wonderful little shop. It spins beautifully, and the cracked glass effect on the whorl is amazing. I have this project going on that I take all the leftovers from carding, samples and other random fibers and spin them all together onto this spindle. So far I have 25 grams and the plan for now is to spin 3ply sock yarn and make socks or something out of it. Pretty dreadfull looking socks possibly.

Prekrasne vretienko, od Jesh, z jej obchodika na etsy. Joj velmi sa mi paci ten efekt popraskaneho skla. To ja mam teraz taky projekt totiz, ze nezahadzujem zbytky roznych chlpov, ale ich uchovavam a spriadam na toto vretienko spolu s roznymi vzorkami kadecoho. Plan je zatial, ze spradiem 100g a ze z toho zostrikujem nejake ponozky alebo cosi. Asi velmi skarede ponozky z toho vzniknu...

I meant to slide the cop onto a spare chopstick, didn't work out...

Keep spinning!