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Episode 5 -- Japanese Craft Books

Show notes for Episode 5 -- Japanese Craft Book

Great Websites for Japanese Craft Books:

• Crafting Japanese
• Flickr group: crafting-in-Japanese
• Flickr group: Inspiring images from craft books
• Japanese Craft Translation at makewrite

Where to Buy Japanese Craft Books:

• B&M shops like Mitsuwa sometimes have bookshops.  (My "local" Mitsuwa in Arlington Heights does!)  Crafting Japanese has a nice list of B&M shops here.
• Amazon Japan -- Look toward the top of the page and click where it says "In English".  How easy is that?  I've bought from them and had great service.
• List of more online sellers from Crafting Japanese

Music:

• 4 in the Moonlight ~ Kaipirinya No Moto E

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If you've been having trouble. . .

If you've been having trouble downloading and listening to my podcasts, I wanted to let you know that today I gave in and started hosting them somewhere other than TypePad.  Episode 4 is now available via this new data storage home and should be faster and easier to download.  You shouldn't have to do anything if you already subscribe with iTunes or another reader.  Hopefully everything will be seamless!

(Deb, hopefully you can listen too now!)

Episode 4 -- Spinning Wheels & Spindles

Show Notes for Episode 4 -- Spinning Wheels & Spindles

The wrong way to buy a wheel, or how I got lucky:

• Ashford Joy Double Treadle

How to find the wheel of your dreams:

• Your local spinning shop -- The Fold
• Spinning guilds and friends who spin
• Fiber Festivals -- MS&W

Wheels I have tried (at least the ones I remember):

• Ashford Joy (my wheel!)
• Lendrum folding wheel (Theresa's wheel!)
• Lendrum Saxony (pictures of Lendrum's here) -- I *love* this wheel!
• Louet -- I think I tried the S75.
• Schacht Matchless -- (Didn't we try this one at the Fold Theresa?)
• Golding Triple Flyer -- OMG!!!!  Heavenly.  If he made this wheel in a less fussy looking model and a less incredible price I may sell a kidney to get one.  (heh.)  Theresa spun on it too.  See. . .

• Robin Spinning Wheels
• The HitchHiker
• Reproduction Canadian Production Wheel

Spindles

• Toy Wheel Kit
• Golding Ring Spindle -- My favorite heavy spindle!
• Kundert Spindles -- My second favorite spindle.
• Bosworth -- Also makes some nice spindles including a super lightweight cedar spindle.

Try your spindles before you buy them!

Books to get you started:

• Spin It by Lee Raven
• The Alden Amos Big Book of Handspinning which Theresa reviewed at Two Friends Collect Books.
• Spinning Designer Yarns by Diane Varney

Music:

• The Crabs ~ Tumbling Away
• Sarah Dougher ~ Everywhere West

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No Podcast This Weekend

No podcast this weekend. I'm off to MS&W. I don't have a fancy-schmancy roving mic set-up, but I will give a full report upon my return!