Well, folks, I missed a week, you may have noticed. It has been a monster of a week.
Last Monday, my dad came out for a well awaited visit. All was going fine, until, Dun dun dun… Wednesday morning, he wound up in the hospital, due to a complication from his surgery weeks prior. So instead of blogging last Wednesday as I usually do, I spent the afternoon trying to find out what was going on with him at the hospital… I could not bring the kids there, and I had nobody to watch them that day. Thursday, I spent the entire day there with him, and Friday, he came home, and we were all a little distracted…
Leave it to say, I am behind on my production stuff by several days. BUT, on the positive side, while he was here, with him in the hospital, I was finally able to finish the baby blanket I was knitting for the newest Beeba. And yesterday I started on a pair of footed wool pants for the new beeba too. They are over half done already, being such a small and simple knit, and I will be posting pics on Friday if not sooner. if I can get my craft room cleaned up this afternoon a bit, then I will be taking pics of several items, including the blanket and the in-progress woolies to update my projects queue, and also some things to get ready for sale. I have several skeins of yarn that need photos taken and WPIs measured so I can list them too. I did get a fair bit of spinning done this past week as well.
Also, no new pics of the CPW yet this week… but I finally got the flyer and bobbin sent in for repair. The hooks are to be replaced, and the bobbin replicated. Then, I’ll be putting the original bobbin away to be kept safe, and my wheel will be much nicer to spin on… I hope. no more weird places where the fiber has huge valleys from missing hooks, no more fighting with the rough, rusted hooks to get good uptake, and no more fighting with hooks that have, simply from itting in a pile for ages, somehow wound up bent too far closed… all the hooks should be nice and even when it comes back to me.
Of course, the bobbin will make a difference too. The original bobbin has a large split in on part of it, and chips out of the pulley (that’s the bobbin’s whorl, for those who don’t know). It also had one bearing that had come out, but I was able to pressure fit back in. Of course, the origianl bearings, I am pretty sure, were lead. I am not sure what Mr. Hatton (the gentleman doing the work) will use in the new bobbin… but since lead is not that easy to find anymore, I would bet it won’t be that, and I am kind of glad, since lead is not something I am fond of finding in my already old and lead-ridden house.
On a separate note- I have been asked to make a video of how to spin from a batt. That having been said, there are so many different ways to spin from a batt, I thought maybe it would better to be a series of short videos. If anyone has a particular batt-spinning method you’d like to see covered, please feel free to leave a comment. I know I will be covering at least these: 1, stripping the batt; 2, pulling off chunks to spin from the fold; and 3, pulling the batt into thick roving. Any other things you would particularly like to see? Just let me know. the videos may take some time to come, as I need to wait till the kids are quiet, but I have no problem making as many as needed.
Now I just wish I had a better video camera, though, since my cheapy one does not make the best quality films. But, I will make due for now, as I simply do not have the funds to buy anything new right now.
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