tonight some other married women with spinning wheels came over and we had childfree, tea-and-cake-and-paté spinning hour. i have learned something: i don't care for my single-treadle ashford traditional (i knew that) and indeed prefer the double-treadle... i am looking (hopefully) at the louet victoria folding spinning wheel (model s95). i don't know how soon, but seriously.
it would require more of a commitment to spinning for my own projects, and in large enough amounts to fulfill those projects, but that was a commitment i was ready to make with the ashford, and it just never took. the other issue is that i'm so much more interested in cellulose fibers than i am in animal fibers, and that's hardly the easiest stuff to spin. i do not know if the model i am looking at has a flax distaff that it can use... there is some stuff to consider.
i think it will help me to bifurcate my thinking about spinning into Total Practice and Earnest Project-Oriented Seriousness, because balancing between the two has brought lukewarm results. i can use practice yarn in freeform anyway, or even for felting projects, so i don't need to feel it's (pardon the pun) just spinning my wheels.