New Acquisitions Part 2 & 3
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:25 am (uncategorized)
Ha - you were worried there wouldn’t be a part two, weren’t you?
Well, here I present my new Spindle, complete with dragon breathing fire around the base of it:
It needs a name (Spindle of Fire?), and I think it completely appropriate that the first thing being spun on it is bright red roving.
Acquisition #3
The roving is a superwash merino from Bonkers. Not having spun anything superwash before I expected the fiber to be pretty dead and without any discernable crimp. Not so. This stuff is super sproingy and a joy to work with. Pity I only got 2 four ounce skeins of it. Once it’s spun up, it’ll go to make Katie’s doll a scarf and a hat and a sweater and a bag and a whatever else she’s dreaming up at the time. In theory this is her roving that she picked the color of. Mommy just really needed a good excuse to buy it.
What are those green things?
Those are little rubbery bandy-type grommet things. The man who made the spindle, Tracy, showed me how you can roll the rubber band over the start of your yarn. This avoids needing any sort of a leader (yes you have to spin a bit of the fiber first, but that’s not hard) and is really cool. It’s a bit wierd when you’re plying to not have a leader, but you just overtwist the first bit, then let the twist run back down to where the yarn is anchored by the grommet thingy.
These green things are also good at fixing spinning wheels - last year (2005) at Sheep to Shawl, Judy had something fall off hers, and we used one of these green things to hold it together. The green thing was still on her wheel this year. I think she’s on to something.
-Mom said,
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Cool looking drop spindle. What animal did you get?
-Mom said,
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Oh, I forgot to say how pretty the roving is and it is even red! =) My favorite color even.