freemotion
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I thought I'd started a thread on this already but I guess not...probably just posts here and there...so here goes. Hopefully others who play with wool will post their stuff here and it'll be easier to find later!
I got my drop spindle in the mail on Friday!
Along with some very cool dried mushrooms, which will be saved until we have some more homegrown chicken to eat them with, since they are very special. Thanks, woodwizard!
I got the new pads for my Memere's carders on Saturday...what a nice week! I got the tacks today and took the old, crumbling leather pads off (sadly, as there was some red fluff stuck deep among the wires from the last time Memere reworked something worn into roving to spin yarn, probably many, many decades ago. My dad doesn't even remember her spinning much, but remembers there being a ruckus about her spinning wheel being given away.) I put the new, ugly but usable pads onto the antique handles and will play with some fleece tonight.
I have a very soggy fleece on the lawn, drying, after washing it using BBH's instructions. I don't have any lingerie laundry bags, so I put the entire fleece loose in my bathtub and used a fine wire screen lint catcher thingy in the drain and used my hands to prevent clogging. Thank goodness for Sally's experience with this, as I knew to have two big pots of water on the stove, heating up.
It was a white fleece and I'm not happy with how it came out, but it will be useful for something. Most of the tips were so badly stained that the wool is still two-toned, even after 4 washings and 3 rinsings with the water coming out clear by the third washing.
I have one fleece that I washed and partially carded last winter, so I may try that with the drop spindle this week.
I have seven more fleeces in the garage to clean....somehow it never crossed my mind during this past drought summer. With temps in the high 90's and into the 100's most days, I forgot all about the wool. Once it got refreshingly chilly, though, well, now it is also refreshingly damp! It might be better to wait until the woodstove is going again to get them done.
I am also anxious to try a little felting, to make a couple of little fun craft items that will make good gifts.
Anyone have anything they are working on or did in the past that they'd like to post here, or link to?
I got my drop spindle in the mail on Friday!
Along with some very cool dried mushrooms, which will be saved until we have some more homegrown chicken to eat them with, since they are very special. Thanks, woodwizard!I got the new pads for my Memere's carders on Saturday...what a nice week! I got the tacks today and took the old, crumbling leather pads off (sadly, as there was some red fluff stuck deep among the wires from the last time Memere reworked something worn into roving to spin yarn, probably many, many decades ago. My dad doesn't even remember her spinning much, but remembers there being a ruckus about her spinning wheel being given away.) I put the new, ugly but usable pads onto the antique handles and will play with some fleece tonight.
I have a very soggy fleece on the lawn, drying, after washing it using BBH's instructions. I don't have any lingerie laundry bags, so I put the entire fleece loose in my bathtub and used a fine wire screen lint catcher thingy in the drain and used my hands to prevent clogging. Thank goodness for Sally's experience with this, as I knew to have two big pots of water on the stove, heating up.
It was a white fleece and I'm not happy with how it came out, but it will be useful for something. Most of the tips were so badly stained that the wool is still two-toned, even after 4 washings and 3 rinsings with the water coming out clear by the third washing.
I have one fleece that I washed and partially carded last winter, so I may try that with the drop spindle this week.
I have seven more fleeces in the garage to clean....somehow it never crossed my mind during this past drought summer. With temps in the high 90's and into the 100's most days, I forgot all about the wool. Once it got refreshingly chilly, though, well, now it is also refreshingly damp! It might be better to wait until the woodstove is going again to get them done.
I am also anxious to try a little felting, to make a couple of little fun craft items that will make good gifts.
Anyone have anything they are working on or did in the past that they'd like to post here, or link to?
I think the fibers are too short to spin, but it will be great for felting, I hope. But what do I know? 
I've only read about this stuff! Thank goodness for youtube!
