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Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion
18 September 2026
Hi Rachel, I have looked for more photos of you, but that was not very successful. I found a link on...
Guest - Beatrix Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...
Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
I was not referring to Rachel's reconstruction (is the reconstruction you refer to the one photograp...
Guest - Beatrix Sprang Discussion
14 September 2026
There is something Rachel did not mention. She told me: "Well, I worked with the measurements we too...
Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion
14 September 2026
Well, this is certainly developing into an interesting discussion. Firstly, going from that lovely l...

Making use of the good weather...

I'm running low on hand-formed spindle whorls, and due to a number of different reasons, I haven't gotten around to making more for a good while now (which is the reason why I'm running low). One of the reasons was the cold weather and lack of sunshine. I usually make the whorls sitting in the wintergarden, because there's a table with a suitable surface, and lots of space if needed, and I've just gotten used to making them there. Unfortunately when it's cold and the sun is not shining at all, that place is very cold - much too cold to sit there and make little bits of clay into spindle whorls.

Today, though, for the first time in a long while, we did have several hours of sunshine. So it was finally warm enough out there to clear the table, sit down, and get started on the next batch of whorls. 

 The next interesting question is: Will I manage to make the right amount of whorls in the right weight brackets? Funnily, sometimes I get into a sort of groove, and make a lot of whorls in a similar weight, and that's not necessarily the weight range that I need them to be in...

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