Well, I added new name skill to my repituar yesterday.... Spinning Wheel Doctor.
Yesterday afternoon I went to visit a friend who had been given a spinning wheel.
A neighbor had found it in their basement and thought she might have a use for it, although it did not appear to be in working condition.
So after assessing the situation Katie and I were able to find out the problems.
The single tredle peddle had come unattached, as well as the mother-of-all, and both the actual wheel and bobbins had swollen over to as to be very tight on their dowls preventing it from turning.
Luckily after some playing with some super-glue we were able to get the mother-of-all and peddle back on, but those were the easy problems. We ending up having to take the wheel off completely, and lubricating it in oil until we were able to get it to spin fairly easily, and even though the wheel has come with 3 bobbins, we were only able to get one to work properly without drilling new holes in the bobbins.
Thank goodness for some-assembily-required spinning wheels! ( Me and my Dad assembled my Ashford: Travler spinning wheel a few years ago. )
I also finished my shrug yesterday. I thought I had finished it before then though.
I had just sewed up the side seams and was ready to try it on when I realised that the back was going to curl and pucker somthing awful. So I had to unsew part of the seams, knit on some extra ribbing along the back, and crochet around the edges to prevent unnessecary curling there.
On a happier note however, I have started knitting a dragon scarf.
A little while ago while surfing on Knitty.com I saw an advertisment for a knitting dragon scarf, but, upon clickin' on the link, I realised that the website that was selling it only sold the pattern in a kit form.
Not wanted to buy the whole kit I surfed the web to see if I could find a free on-line variation, but, alas, there was none to be found.
So I decided that I would just have to make it up my self. This is what I have come up with so far, but I still need to finished the tail, attach the nostrils and eyes, and the spikes along the back. Promises to be interesting.
I was browsing my pictures from my digital camera when I found this picture of Rummy. I totally forgot I had taken this! He is just the cuttest kitten!
Speaking of cute kittens, guess where I found my cat Cassey the other day? Sitting on the wood pile in the living room, pretty as you please. Only a cat can make a stack of wood a throne.
This is my second time writing this post, seeing as the first time I wrote it my on-line clicked off and lost the post... Darn you dial-up internet!
~Amanda
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