More spindles!

LOL I hadn't even started typing the title and that showed up, so I'm leaving it. :-)

Indeed there are more spindles to show - these are handcarved by a Rav friend. :-D  I'm going to play with them as soon as I finish this post (therefore it's a really short post, as I want to play with them).

 top to bottom: wax myrtle phang, huckleberry spindle with removable whorl, pine Bulgarian

Edited to add:  The phang - she works! :-D

And works well. :-)

I also made a couple for her this past week, but I want her to see them first before posting.  So you'll just have to wait!

Oh a fuzzy pic of the hounds enjoying the fruits of my trip to Menard's:

It's Fall!

And it was lovely at my mom's last weekend:

It smelled like Fall when you stepped out the door - which I don't seem to notice here.  Though my sinuses are making me extremely unhappy this week. :-(

I also found another Mouli - this time the round-barrel grater, like this one:

Though I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.  Soon, though!


Yesterday was the annual spin-in, and I was planning to not buy all that much.

Really - it's not that much.  Though more than I planned of course.

I picked up a little silk:

"Cornflower"

And I picked up a pound of Pima cotton (plus a couple of small baggies the seller threw in for free, like the brown) from a destash:

Yeah, it was a crazy purchase since I don't like spinning cotton, but I'm hoping spinning it on the spindles instead of a wheel will be more enjoyable.  And if not, I can probably find someone to buy it from me.  I'm planning to spin the silk on the spindles too.

I also picked up some undyed leicester longwool:

I've not tried this before, and it's a rare breed so I wanted to support the grower's efforts to help build up the breed. :-)  I think that's 8 ounces.

I also wanted a 'quantity' of something, instead of my usual 4 ounces, though I may have gone a bit overboard with this:

"Sapphire Gems" rambouillet, romney, kid mohair, alpaca, silk, Firestar

That's 2 POUNDS.  This will probably end up being a 'what was I thinking' project, but it's pretty and feels nice in the bag - though the bit of spun yarn that they used to tie the bag feels pretty rough.  I'm going to have to think about how I'm going to spin this, but I do have enough to experiment with.  I'll probably spin this on the Polonaise, or maybe the Penguin.  This is the same vendor that I bought the batch of blue fluff Wensleydale blend that I started on the Polonaise a while back that I never got very far into (wow - I bought that 4 years ago - I really need to do something about my stash!).

I almost picked up some more cormo, but since I've spun very little of the bag from last year I decided to hold off.  

Thinking about my stash - I have several spinning UFOs that I need to finish - a couple of them relatively-large quantities, like the blue fluff.  So, if I can stand it, I'm going to finish my UFOs before starting anything else, except for spindle stuff.  Hmm... Spin Club is this week - this might be the perfect opportunity to work on the red colonial wool that I've been spinning off-and-on for years.  Luckily I haven't started plying any of it so I don't need to remember what I'm doing in that respect.  If I can find it....



In more food gadget news, I returned the first donut maker I bought and picked up the Babycakes model at Bed Bath & Beyond instead:

It came with a tiny fork and cooling rack - plus better recipes in the booklet.

It has deeper wells, for better-looking donuts:

They still taste different than 'regular' donuts, because they are baked, but it doesn't seem to stop me from eating far too many than are good for me!



I'm supposed to be turning a couple of spindles for someone so I'd better take some more sinus medication for my awesome headache :-P and get out to the woodshop.  So here's your obligatory puppy picture:

 Dinnertime at Chez Too-Many-Dogs!