Well! Blow me down and call me charlie! I will continue my piece of setting up our business later but I had to write about this now. I wanted a Little Gem II so bad, I thought it was driving me nuts. I still want one, but after christmas (note to self, never listen to your husband’s drunk mate at a posh christmas party), I had come to terms with the fact that that wasn’t going to happen. At all.
I am still really bummed by it. But … being the grown up I am, I have kind of come to terms with it. I have my long term sights set on a Majacraft Rose. After christmas I set about trying to find myself a second hand Gem, it didn’t happen. The costs of the Gem second hand were almost the same as new, and as I am funding this, I can’t afford the costs. So I had to hit the net and see what I could find.
I needed a wheel that could be folded away. So I found an Ashford Joy that was a factory second in New Zealand, emails were sent, and it looked like I was going to get this wheel. That was until last night, before you go thinking that I am going to pull a Gem out of my ear, think again. It was another factory second joy, this time at nearly 100.00 aussie dollars cheaper, and thats including shipping, the other one was roughly 400.00 aussie dollars minus shipping. Blimey, it’s raining Joy’s here.
The only thing wrong with the wheel is that is has some marks on the board it’s made out of. Considering that this is going to the breaking in, carrying to shows wheel. I can deal with it. I like Ashfords as a company, but I don’t like the little bits of plastic that are beginning to creep in their products. The only think that’s stopping me from getting a knitters loom is the amount of plastic on it. Call me picky, but plastic like that can get brittle with age and break. I am eyeing of a Kromski Harp loom, no plastic there but that will be later, much later.So there will be a wheel for jo, not the pretty one she wanted but a wheel. Woo Hoo. The next couple of weeks are going to be unbearable. Still … I’m getting a wheel, I’m getting a wheel.
Ashford Joy = Pending … for real!
Listening to: James Bond Themes
