Spinning fiber into yarn is most easily accomplished using a mechanical spinner. The most common are hand -spindles and the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi invented a hand-cranked spinning machine, known as a box charkha, to promote self-sufficiency in cloth-making as well as a form of meditation. Any way you do it - it is relaxing and rewarding.

The finished yarn is wound on this measuring stick, called a Nitty Noddy, to calculate the amount spun and to get it linear.

Slide the yarn off the Niddy Noddy and onto the

Swift so you can use a ball winder without help.

The Swift expands out to hold the yarn then spins

around while winding.

Crank the handle and the yarn wraps around into a ball. You can pull from the center or from both the outside and center simultaneously for plying upon itself.