Ok. I got on with my plying. It’s not finished. It’s taking ages. I had not realised just how fine I had been spinning. There’s miles of this stuff and it took forever to 2 ply a bobbin full. I now understand the attraction of the double treadle. There’s no leaving off plying in a …
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It’s a wind-up
DONE! 🙂 I have “winder’s elbow” I am sure
Change of pace
18 balls wound, and I was about to declare an amnesty and go spin, because that’s what I feel like doing. Then a knock at the door heralded a parcel delivery. A Great Big Parcel. I imagine that is from Fibrecrafts. So I’ll be needing to investigate that rather than begin spinning 🙂 7 balls …
And the parcels pour in…
No sign of the quilting needles yet. How long can it take to shove those in an envelope and stick a stamp on it??? I did receive the new pin for my new debit card, replacing the one that I locked myself out of and can’t unlock due the need to get to a Nationwide …
Up and at ’em
I was up and about early this morning – finally giving in and putting my week old wet washing in the dryer. The bedding went on the line yesterday but the rest was still hanging around. I dashed off to the surgery, to see the very nice and extremely young locum (very firm handshake) and …
There’s a long, long trail a-winding
I have been winding all evening. I have 10 balls wound, 4 more part cones to do in this bag, then whole other bag full to address. It ain’t easy! So far this Merino/Silk/Cashmere has been much harder to rewind than the straight cashmere was. I assume that’s the silk component at play. Anyway, I’m …