Loomy Thoughts

Friday, November 08, 2013

Guess what I found this weekend?

I found her in the same place I found the oak Reeves a couple of years ago. :-)  She's pretty large (22" wheel), and looks like she was built for flax or lace spinning - small orifice, small flyer hooks, plus there was still flax in the distaff. :-)  I'll probably not keep her, and the plan is to get her into a spinner's hands eventually.

Let's see, what else have I been up to....  I went to the relatively-local spin-in a couple of weeks ago and of course spent too much, but had a great time.  I picked up some fiber:

and a spinning bowl and fae house from The Dancing Goats (they had a lot of gorgeous stuff!):

I figured out plying with a spindle:

so finally got a bunch of small samples plyed. :-)

And did lots of spinning - I have projects on every wheel again (just a really small sample on the new wheel though) and need to get some of them finished.  I've made a big dent in spinning samples on spindles, and hopefully soon I'll get back to the larger spindle projects.

I haven't made any further progress on weaving the Sky Scarf, as it looks like I'm about out of warp.  A couple of my weavy friends suggested taking the first 6 months off the loom and re-warping, because otherwise this would be a *really* long scarf.  But I need to find my project sheet for this to refresh my memory as to how long it is now.

My buddy telling me what he things of the new kitchen floor: