The spinning wheel holds special appeal to people, and has a tendency to draw them in close. Spinning wheels have long provided necessary textiles, income and opportunity for social gathering. They were also used as a radical tool of civil disobedience in India's fight for independence. These multi-purposeful aspects of the spinning wheel suggested to me that the wheel could be developed as a public art intervention tool as an effective way to engage the public on issues of climate change and feelings of empowerment, or dis-empowerment, to take climate action. I also felt the wheel offered pedagogical scope for social-ecological change as an embodied transdisciplinary feminist tool. Not limited solely to its functional capacity, its multi-purposefulness encapsulates social, economic, political and ecological concerns. It holds creative potential for the sociological imagination as much as it does for the varied threads and cloths that can emerge from it through the hands and minds of those who work with it.