It's been awhile!

But I've been getting surprisingly little done (I did spin on the Reeves a bit last weekend).  And though I'm on 4 teams for Tour de Fleece this year, I'm so not ready!  I think one of my goals is going to be finishing up my wheel UFOs.

Anyway, Friday night I turned my first Tibetan spindle:

It's just pine, as I'm still practicing.  Getting the 'gouge' on the inside of the whorl wasn't easy...

This is a bit small as my pine wasn't quite as big as I wanted, but it spins forever. :-)  The whorl is a bit 'long' compared to what I've seen online, but it doesn't seem to hurt it's performance.  Now to find out if I can actually make yarn on one....

I tried to use Handsome Boy as a spindle model, but he wasn't quite sure about it:

And New Boy doesn't hold still long enough, so we just did a 'portrait'. :-)