Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Above left: Ronda Bell's spinning wheel has produced a wide variety of beautiful yarns. Above right: Bell demonstrates her spinning skills for an interested visitor at last year's Columbia County Fair.
WAITSBURG - To the average person, the spinning wheel is an obscure relic, relegated to glass-fronted museum cabinets and renditions of "Sleeping Beauty".
To Waitsburg native Ronda Bell, however, it's much more than that.
Bell has been spinning wool for nearly 18 years now. "Until you do it, you don't understand," she said as she described the "peaceful feeling" of pressing a spinning wheels treadle and listening to the mechanism make a gentle thunk noise as the wooden wheel rotates.
Her first encounter with the ageold art took place at Waitsburg's Fall Festival, where the Blue Mountain Spinne...
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