Well, it wasn’t really broken. But, we have been speed-limited for almost 2 weeks now. So I’ve been spending my time at my spinning wheel instead of the computer. I have several skeins of yarn to show for it. Tonight I finished plying these two bobbins:
And these two as well:
I had fun with the second set — they were originally these batts from Wooldancer:
and came with some cut threads and ribbon, which I placed in between the strands while plying. Can’t wait to see what the washed skein looks like.
Last week I finished this skein from some batts I bought in the UK:
I spun each batt onto a separate bobbin, and tried to keep the colors in the same order on each bobbin. The resulting skein goes from rust to yellow to green.
Of course, it hasn’t been all spinning. Last Saturday we melted at the QSWFA Christmas Fair. It must have been almost 35C, and no aircon. It’s hard to get people to buy woolly things in that type of heat. Sunday was a warm one too, so we spent most of the day out at the mall, where the aircon worked pretty well. In the afternoon there was a massive thunderstorm, but it had all blown over by the time we finished shopping.
Meanwhile, Alan has left for his semester in Oslo. He’s started his own travel blog at http://alan.imagin-itis.net — go over and say hi. It appears that he is settling in to the cold weather and the different choice of computer games at the Oslo office.
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