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Welcome at Studio Spintol!

Spintol.nl is much more than just a website; it’s a window into my world of creating professional wooden spindles. Each piece is a testament to my journey with PTSD – handcrafted with care on my good days, and a reminder of perseverance on the not-so-good ones.

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Love,
Bregje

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Soft Start Corriedale top - granite

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Soft start merino top - soft pink

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Athena model

Weight:150 gram
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Soft start merino top - lavender

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Soft Start Corriedale top - soft green

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Soft Start Corriedale roving - ice blue

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Spring is a season of growth and new beginnings. A

Spring is a season of growth and new beginnings. All Aphrodite bundles have already found their new homes.
Only 1 Athena and 2 Artemis bundles remain.

This Saturday I’ll welcome new spinners into my studio and
two places are still open in my beginner spindle workshop.
A 3D printed spindle is included so you can create your first yarn from the very start!

It’s been incredible to see so many of you begin your spinning journey.

Just a small note:
Spring bundles can’t be picked up during the workshop.
They are prepared and shipped from my mother’s place where all webshop orders are carefully packed.

Photocredits: Sascha Blase

The countdown has started! The Spring Shop Update

The countdown has started!
The Spring Shop Update goes live this Friday, May 2nd, at 8PM CET.
New fibers are blooming, new spindles are made... and a new Spring Bundle is ready to spin.

Set your reminder. I can't wait to share it with you!

Over the past year, while I was recovering from su

Over the past year, while I was recovering from surgeries to my neck, back and hip, I had time to pause and reflect.

To listen to my body.

To figure out what I want to keep building and what I need to let go of.

One of the biggest decisions: I’m saying goodbye to FoxyFibers.

Dyeing yarns on a larger scale has become too much for my body. It took a while before I was ready to share that. I needed time to come to terms with it myself. But now it feels like the right step.

The good thing is: letting go also makes space.

For new ideas. For more focus. And for Studio Spintol to grow into something that really fits me, and hopefully inspires you too.

Right now I’m working on a new website, and filming an online course all about spindle spinning.

And next week, there’ll be one last update on the current site. An update with new spindles, some (fiber) sets I’m really excited about, and a seasonal spinspiration card to spark your creativity.

Thanks for being here. It means a lot.

Curious to dive deeper into spindle spinning? In

Curious to dive deeper into spindle spinning?

In my hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to really see what’s happening in your fiber triangle — and how small changes in your hand position can shape your yarn. It’s a relaxed, practical day full of insights and spinning joy.

Also helpful for wheel spinners who feel stuck or unsure: we take a close look at drafting itself, which makes this workshop super useful no matter what tool you spin with.

Choose your date:
10 May or 18 June
Price: €75 (includes a 3D printed Athena spindle, 25g)
Prefer a wooden spindle? Trade in the 3D version for a discount.
Small group, maximum of 3 participants.

Book your seat at https://spintol.nl/event/workshop-hoorn-zwaag-10-mei/

Excited to explore new possibilities at H+H this w

Excited to explore new possibilities at H+H this weekend!

Soaking up all the spinning goodies and discovering where this adventure leads. The show is always full of inspiration, and I can't wait to see what’s in store!

If you spot me wandering around, feel free to say hi - let’s chat about fiber, spindles, and all the other good stuff. See you there!

I’ve been back in the workshop, working with som

I’ve been back in the workshop, working with some beautiful new wood species for my spindles! Each piece has its own unique character, making every spindle a little adventure to create.

It’s always a bit of a puzzle—not just crafting the perfect shape, but also discovering how each spindle will spin. Since every type of wood has a different weight, each spindle gets its own unique feel and balance.

The photos give you a sneak peek, but there’s more to come! These beauties will be part of an upcoming shop update – I don’t have a date yet, but I’ll announce it here as soon as it’s set. Stay tuned!

Which wood speaks to you the most? And, for bonus points and cookies, can you guess the wood types?
Let me know in the comments!

I am enjoying and exploring the endless possibilit

I am enjoying and exploring the endless possibilities my “new” body is giving me. My surgeries are paying off!

Today Pippa and I graduated for our exam! Although

Today Pippa and I graduated for our exam! Although Pippa already was a (general) PTSD service dog, we trained hard with @hondenschoolthierry to personalize her job to my specific needs.

All dogs are perfect just the way they are, but my Pip is the most perfect dog of all, obviously ❤️❤️.

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This what I have been training for! Oh, and what I

This what I have been training for! Oh, and what I had all the surgeries for too 😂.
PT is paying off and our focus will shift to running therapy ❤️❤️❤️

I thought it would be a good idea to introduce mys

I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself again. I am Bregje, a passionate spinner and a woman who makes spindles for women (and men of course).
Also with emphasis in that order, I’ve been spinning years longer than I’ve been making spindles.

I started making spindles when I quit work due to PTSD and was looking for a meaningful use for my days. Making super balanced, gorgeous spindles for other people is what makes me really happy.

I also use my social media to show that people are much more than the things they may not be able to do anymore. Look for what you can do and find happiness in that.

Photo credits: @alasascha

I was happily honored by Sarah’s invitation and

I was happily honored by Sarah’s invitation and I am extremely looking forward to @k2p2.festival. Of course, I will bring my handcrafted Turkish spindles with me. But also my handcrafted sockblockers are going with me.

Due to my recovery, I still haven’t registered for other fairs (and I don’t know if I will this year), but for this one I really wanted to make an exception. So I am also very much looking forward to being able to see some you again and hopefully catch up a bit!

I was checking the inventory today, and guess what

I was checking the inventory today, and guess what I found? 87 tiny wee shafts for a bunch of tiny wee Hebe spindles!

I also *might* have found a stunning piece of wood that is gonna be perfect for a few new tiny baby spindles… so I know what I’m going to make next week!

Looking forward!

While I was at it, I made myself a Navajo style sp

While I was at it, I made myself a Navajo style spindle. A pear whorl with a diameter of approximately 11 cm and a wengé shaft of 76 cm.

This was really challenging for me because making whorls is where my biggest fears are.
For all of you, non-wood turners out there, you have to understand that if you do something wrong, your piece comes off the lathe. Towards you, at very high speed. Hence the protection I’m always wearing! Now, with my PTSD… do I need to continue to explain? Yet I figured I still wanted to give it a go.

The results?
The whorl attacked me, twice. But I managed to finish one side on the lathe, I finished the other side by hand.
The shaft attacked me, once, really hard. My lathe isn’t long enough for Navajo style spindle shafts. So I decided to go for a different approach: by hand.

In the end I have a somewhat wobbly whorl because I had to finish one side by hand, but the spindle is GORGEOUS!!

This spindle is definitely not for sale (I’m sorry), it is way too precious since it has all my anxiety, sweat, bravery (and maybe some cursing) in it.

However, I still wanted to show you my progress.

When I just started Studio Spintol, I made support

When I just started Studio Spintol, I made supported spindles like it was nothing. And then from one day, in all of a sudden, they all jumped off the lathe, leaving me clueless how that happened. I figured I had a “lathe-block” and that it would come back.

Except that it didn’t. My fear of making supported spindles grew and I was hiding behind several *good* reasons not to try again.

Now that I’m back at work again after all my surgeries, and I’m feeling really, really good again, better than ever if I might say… I thought… today is as good as any day.

As you can CLEARLY see, this piece of wood on the lathe (that used to be a table leg) is hoping to end up as a supported spindle, Russian style. Unless it jumps off again.

We will find out about that tomorrow, my knees were trembling too much, and I wanted to stop for the day with a success.

So far so good, finger crossed tomorrow!

(Pip wasn’t too happy though with all the wood shavings coming in her direction)

Happiness is in small things my friends! I found e

Happiness is in small things my friends! I found extreme happiness today in riding my bike for the first time since my hip replacement 🥰.

The feelings of freedom and thankfulness I felt are truly not to express with words. But I hope you have experienced moments like this in your life.

Please keep finding joy and happiness in small things. Embrace the things you do, it will make you happy ❤️

My trip’s haul is a fountain pen for sketching! So off I go!

I THINK I’M DOING A LOT BETTER ALREADY!

I THINK I’M DOING A LOT BETTER ALREADY!

Back to doing the work for recovering. Undergoing

Back to doing the work for recovering. Undergoing surgery is much more than the actual procedure. The hard work is afterwards. You have to get back in shape and regain your condition. Of course you have to rest as well. But resting is easy. The rest is harder.
It means getting out of your bed for walks (within limits of course), doing the exercises you have to do, eating the healthy stuff and leave the rest be.
Especially when you have had two surgeries in three weeks, this is challenging. And I’m not pretending it is all easy. Today is a hard day. It all feels useless, and motivation is hard to find.

So I’m as gentle as I can be for myself. Because this IS hard and that is okay. I’m trying not to think too much about the hip surgeries that are still on the list and all the insecurities that come along with it. I just hope that in a week or two, I will be back on my feet. However that may be, with or without crutches until hip surgery, I will figure it out.
But today, I have my best buddy Pippa next to me and I feel the love of all my loved ones.

Being an active person as I am, and having to reco

Being an active person as I am, and having to recover from surgery can be a struggle. I wanna do so many things! One of them is knit. But honestly, it is a little bit too early, just 5 days post-op. I still try to find ways though 😇.
I’m working on my very first knitting pattern and I want it finished so I can share it with you all… I guess you have to be patient a little longer until I finished knitting the sample.

Impatient is probably my middle name 🤭.

For all the new followers, and for everyone with t

For all the new followers, and for everyone with the same shitty memory I have, I thought it was a good idea to (re)introduce myself again.

I am Bregje, 44 years old and I am based in the Netherlands. I started to crochet somewhere in 2009, knitting around 2013 and spinning not much later.
For some reason I just love learning new skills… (inventing time is still on my list though 😅) which resulted in spindle making in 2019.

In the picture you also see my PTSD service dog Pippa, and she is the best that ever happened to me. She literally changed my world after hitting rock bottom.

We make a good team and with her on my side the world is full of opportunities again, full of love and life and friendly faces.
I connect with people again and… I started to dream again.

I went to H+H because of these dreams, the ideas and the route I have for Studio Spintol for the next few years. I can see and smell where we are going to, but I am taking baby steps. One at the time.

For the next few months however, I won’t be taking any steps in that direction at all. The only steps will be walking into a hospital to undergo major back surgery next Thursday.

I will be back… and I will continue plotting and scheming from my bed ❤️

Oh wait, I forgot an important thingy! The webshop will not close, orders still go out pretty much as normal, a very special person is taking care of all of that for me ❤️❤️❤️.

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