Yay! Ten packages went out yesterday. Four Valentine’s gifts went abroad. One pretty Valentine’s doll went to Carrie. A lovely pair of socks plus a beaded keychain adornment went to Grandma June. A James Dean calendar went to Mari in Virginia. Some catalogues went to mom in Oregon. And then there were a couple of merchandise returns. That was an event. I don’t get the post office much, so when I do, I have a truckload.
I mentioned yesterday about spinning…
Quite frankly, I’m dying to show Jessica how I rigged up a lazy kate, and a tensioned one at that! Just because I know she’ll laugh at me. Yes, I rented a spinning wheel without a lazy kate or a hook. Check it out.
Nate calls it a “lazy fake”. Clever boy. I took 24 gauge wire and strung the bobbins to the chair. I didn’t expect it to be tensioned, but because they rest against the back of the chair, it works beautifully.
This has been the scene in my family room for the past couple of days. I’ve been spinning away, and now plying. Hee hee. My first time plying. I may be doing it completely wrong, as I’ve had no real instruction on how to do it, but I’m very happy with how the yarn is turning out.
In fact, after I set the twist and hung it to dry, it barely twisted at all. I’d like to think that means I did something right. (And if you noticed in the second picture, we have our fairy tales a bit messed up. That would be Cinderella with the spinning wheel, not Sleeping Beauty. The Sleeping Beauty dress in this house is size 6x).
I have more pictures, but I’ll save them for tomorrow. Like I said, it was a busy weekend.
Oh, and one last thing…
This just showed up in my inbox. Wow. I’m not being unkind, everyone has their thing, and more power to them. I really believe that. In this case, it isn’t my thing, but I am notorious for liking crazy stuff, so I can hardly point fingers. That being said…. wow.
March 14th, 2005 at 9:36 pm
That yarn is beautiful!!!
And how smart are you thinking of that for a Lazy Kate? Bravo! Bravo! 🙂
March 14th, 2005 at 10:31 pm
I think your yarn looks fabulous! I’m with you on the guinea pig dress. Animals in clothes scare me. 🙂
March 15th, 2005 at 12:11 am
I am blown away by that link. I agree with you: just…. wow.
March 15th, 2005 at 1:06 am
What if your guinea pig is a boy?
March 15th, 2005 at 1:28 am
Ok, I think the piggy dress is cute. Call me crazy, that’s ok. I had two guniea pigs when I was little. Don’t think either one would have enjoyed wearing a piggy dress. If you can dress up your dog or cat then why not your guniea pig. Thanks for sharing the link.
March 15th, 2005 at 4:09 am
I think the guinea pig garment would look great on a lot of stuffed animals – you know the ones – the ubiquitous ones that we have several million of, with hearts on the tags…
March 15th, 2005 at 10:50 am
did you say something about turtles?
HA!
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March 15th, 2005 at 1:36 pm
That guinea pig dress goes on the top ten most hilarious things I have ever seen! Good call on the Beanie Babies, although I never was into them either… By the way, I came back from my relaxing weekend B’ham to find out my DH had just about already made an offer on a brand new house! I bet you can guess where it is… and yes, we did end up giving them the earnest money. Don’t worry, no matter where we move to I still will insist on going to knitting group on Fridays. 🙂
March 15th, 2005 at 4:03 pm
Bravo for ingenuity. 🙂 I just got myself a lazy kate when I finished my spinning class. Your yarn looks great.
March 16th, 2005 at 8:45 am
I barely manage to knit for my CHILDREN, so I surely wouldn’t spend time knitting for animals, stuffed or no. That said, I’ve had a steadily growing urge to knit dolls and bunnies and such.