Ok, It's well over a week since my spinning wheel came, and I've been so busy filling every gap between my Christmas knitting with using my knew spinning wheel that I've totally neglected to keep ya'll updated and show you the new wheel and new fiber coming off it!! I still haven’t gotten to spin as much as I would like, but I’ve got a little done!

My pictures are out of date, and my pink romni 3 ply and silvery black & white Icelandic partial singles will need to be shown later, but for now I have some older pictures! See?!

Proof there's a new wheel in the house... fragilé!

And proof it's a Lendrum! See the leaf?

And... set up!!!

It really took very little assembly, it pretty much just ships in it's folded state and you unfold it like you would if you'd brought it somewhere. The brake string was the hardest part to figure out, but some spinners on the knitty board helped me figure that one out... it's actually set up a little wrong in this picture, but it was fixed soon after.

I'm having so much fun with my new Lendrum!! I've gotten to take it to the spinning guild meeting twice now! The denim carrying case is incredible. Now that I know what I'm doing it only takes seconds to brake it down and put it away and the bag is very well padded throughout and the straps are very well placed for easy carrying (it can go on as a shoulder-strap and lay against your side and back or a full back pack, or re-clip the strap to be a 'plain' shoulder-strap that hangs the bag at your side). Getting The Woolery bag was totally worth the wait for the wheel. I'm finding the flyer drive spinning with the separate bobbin-brake tension so much easier to get good tension on than the bobbin drive and flyer brake strap that the Louet had. I can spin my yarn so much finer and more even when I'm not busy fighting the intake to give me proper tension! It's also easier to change bobbins or take off the drive band and keep the same tension.

I'm feeling really good about this whole spinning thing. The woman who taught me asked if I'd found what I was born to do, I feel totally at home behind a spinning wheel and can spin and spin for hours at a time without even noticing how long it's been.

As the McDonalds' marketing department would say - "I'm Lovin' It..."