Drop spindle - winding on

A few people have been kind enough to ask me how I wind my spun yarn onto the spindle.
Here's the reply I gave to one of them:
Basically, when I start to wind on, I wind crosses instead of parallel coils and always lay the next coil next to the one before and never on top. I started doing this because I read that it was a method of stopping the yarn moving round on a notchless spindle (It doesn’t, by the way)
I usually start by winding the spun yarn onto my fingers in a figure of eight before starting to put it on the spindle so I have more control.

The fibre is 'Mistral' BFL from Pigeonroof Studios and the spindle one of my favourites; a 2" Goldings ringspindle in lignum vitae weighing in at .95 oz

These colours make me want to dye!

This is one of my favourite pictures. I always set this as my desktop at this time of year. There's something about sheep in snow...

Who was then the gentleman?

I have discovered spinning!!
Well, to be perfectly honest I've re-discovered it. I did learn to spin many years ago when I was taking the Dip.AD (Diploma in Art and Design) in woven textiles. Mine was the last year of Dip.AD as it changed to a BA the year after I finished the course.
And I didn't last the course; changed to ceramics after 18 months and regretted it ever since.
BUT... I did learn to spin then and I'm learning again now.

Adam and Eve from beautiful Amiens Cathedral is posted with the kind permission of Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University