Bettina's popular Boa (with Bettina's Rainbow Necklace) - Supported Spindle - Made to Order

Now available for order - Bettina's Boa (with Bettina's Rainbow Necklace) supported spindle from Mirkwood Arts & Handcrafts.

Bettina, my daughter was an avid spinner, knitter and a member of Ravelry. She was also a biologist with a PhD, raised snakes and did belly dancing with her snakes. She was married to Nathan, and had a shar-pei dog named Rip (Ripple). She died on December 16, 2014 from breast cancer at the age of 31. She had the BRCA2 gene mutation that she inherited from her mom, who had breast cancer at the age of 24 and then died at the age of 52 from ovarian cancer. Bettina's Rainbow celebrates her life.

Boa is Bettina's pet snake. She often performed belly dancing with Boa wrapped around her shoulder.

All Mirkwood spindles feature Infinitip technology - a stainless steel ball bearing in the spinning tip. Any given point of a sphere is almost infinitely small to give you the tiniest point of contact between the spindle and your spinning surface. As the tip is a sphere, no matter what angle you spin at you are always experiencing minimal contact between the spindle and dish, giving you a smooth, near-frictionless spin.

Mirkwood spindles come with two flicking tip options - crowned or pointed. The crowned spindles have a slender flicking zone topped by a flared tip in to which a genuine 4.8mm Swarovski crystal or a 6.0mm faceted gemstone has been set. Mirkwood spindle users have reported that the crowned tip is just as easy to use as a pointed tip and the glittering crystal is beautiful to behold.

Bettina's Boa's whorl is made of Snakewood. The shaft is made of golden plum mahogany. Around the whorl snakes Bettina's Rainbow necklace, emitting many magic lights.

Weight: 53.2g 1.87oz.
Height: 10 3/8 inches.

Please select a crystal color and shaft style.