Book reports...

I am currently splitting my work between level one and level two. In level two I am required to write ten (yes ten!)book reports.

I have had this book (Alden Amos Big Book of Handspinning) for quite awhile now. I have heard both bricks and bouquets. I am sad to say that I let one brief encounter with the book sully my opinion. I was looking for information on washing fleece (level one assignment) and found an enormous amount of information in the BBB ( I am now calling it the Big Blue Book  as I keep screwing up Alden's first and last name - Amos? Alden?).

I did not like Alden's reference to the usefulness of "spinning in the grease" (page 44 bottom italics). I got my niddy in a noddy so to speak and closed the book. Having actually returned to the "offending passage" I am not quite sure what it was that caused me such incense, unless I had just completed an especially long day of picking seeds, grass, and dags out of something in my lap. Perhaps some rare form of raw fleece hysteria had set in.

But today, I am enjoying my BBB. I am reading about hand carding (pg 64 -71). I am actually finding Amos ? Alden ?  both informative and entertaining!

Comments

[swanknitter]

I found this too opinionated and didn't even give options, just laid down The Law. As is true for most pursuits in life and certainly in spinning, there are many options and some people get technique X working and others prefer technique Y. I gave up after the many pronouncements he made against double treadle wheels, not because I own one but just because he insisted his was The One True Way. This got my dander up and I stopped listening to him. Heaven knows what he would think of my Roberta alectric spinner, but I have knee and ankle probems which mean no treadling for me.