I got my wheel! And I already suck at spinning! It's so cool! I haven't been this excited about being bad at something in a long time! This is a Babe's double treadle Production Wheel.
I figure I will practice treadling for another year or so and then give the spinning part another try. The yarn room also got a serious sound system upgrade.
Bose, baby. I don't even care what bodyparts still hurt, I have amazing sound. So I finally (four days into the vacation) felt up to knitting. And ruining roving. It was great! My husband did good.I actually got my german language Anna out that has the pattern for Lyra and thanks to Claudia's "Stricken Sie Deutsch" project I was able to make pretty good sense of it. I am amazed at how much I learned. Hopefully my life will never depend on my being able to pronounce any of that correctly, though; I may have the German genes mixed in among the Irish and the French, but none of them went to my tongue which is somehow Japanese. Don't ask, I don't know. Of course, the proof will be in the knitting. If I only think I am reading this right, I will make a very unusual Lyra. Before that, though, I have WIPs that must be FO'd. I guess I'd better get back to knitting now.
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I'm giggling hysterically at your post title because I did a similar bash up name for my latest post. Unfortunately I AM taking part in the "bloglines clogging nonsense" so you might start hating me any day now (take a number.. join the club)lol.
How cool.. you got a wheel! I have a link to an AWESOME steampunk'ed up Babe wheel that looks like a big ol' brass cog. I'll send you the link shortly.
Come to the dark side -- we have ROVING!!!!
Mwahahahaha!
Seriously, congrats. I like the black Babes best.
Oh, I have Bose envy or is it lust?
Cool Wheel!
check out that wheel! I am purposely avoiding trying spinning as I know that it's HIGHLY likely I'll become addicted and I can't afford it on top of the knitting (scrapbooking, gardening, reading, movie watching) hobby(-ies).
And watch out I don't just steal yarn I take it right out from underneath your nose! I got them all at etsy seller Whitewillow. The grey-green-purple skein is called River Rock. Brooke is an awesome dealer-gorgeous skeins, reasonable prices and fast shipper- I swear I'm not getting any kick backs. Just in case though, let her know I sent you ;)
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