BIg news, it’s been three weeks since I posted, wait a minute, that’s not the big news. My baby is sick and I haven’t had any sleep, nope, that’s not big news. I had been reluctant to say much in my blog until it all happened. It did! Last Friday, I sat on the lounge room floor and unpacked a very large box from New Zealand. Inside it was … an Ashford Joy! It’s a spinning wheel, and it’s in my house! For me to use when ever I want!
Woooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There were a couple of hiccups. I read in the instructions that I needed to oil the bearings, with what? Virgin pressed Olive Oil! So out in the rain I went, to the lady next door and borrowed some sewing machine oil from her. It had been in the garage since the discovery of fire, but it was sewing machine oil. I am going to make her a spun and knitted dish cloth for that. She doesn’t know that, but I am.Not only that, my fingers are still black with all sorts of colours from dying my own fibe and then spinning it!!!!!!!!!!! Does it get any better? No my friend, it doesn’t. So I will post some pics and put up some of the dye notes and pics of the first attempts and I am off to change my little girl’s nappy and then, in the peace and quiet while she sleeps, spin.
I gotta a spinning wheel, I gotta a spinning wheel, I gotta a spinning wheel.
(Still want a Gem II tho, for the record.)
