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SPINNING........ My spinning setup out on the deck..... 
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I have this lovely wool fleece......fine, soft, with a 3-4 inch staple, clean and fairly free of burr...(pieces of plant material).......The light evening breeze has been perfect for teasing it into the white fluff you see in the basket.......I spun up a spool of it yesterday and knit a 12 inch sample square ....I then washed it in warm soapy water and dried it overnight. It seems like it would be perfect for the garment I designed......Now comes the hours of spinning.......I can only do it so long before my back aches, but slow and steady does it........I'm taking lots of breaks.....I may have a new sweater by Christmas.....
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People have often told me throughout my life that I have a lot of patience, but it doesn't seem that way to me.......I often lose patience with people......for instance, I have very little patience with small-talk and conspiracy theories drive me up the wall.......
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People have often told me throughout my life that I have a lot of patience, but it doesn't seem that way to me.......I often lose patience with people......for instance, I have very little patience with small-talk and conspiracy theories drive me up the wall.......
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WHERE ON EARTH DID YOU FIND THAT SPINNING WHEEL? I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD STILL BUY ONE OF THOSE.
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What a feat and an accomplishment that will be in this day and age. A throw back to simpler times.... perhaps a very calming task? I hope you share some pictures along the way, as well as the finished product. As for patience, there are sometimes I do have it, and other times I don't. On my job, I had total patience with my elderly residents, but total lack of patience with incompetent lazy employees who showed no compassion towards them. I was like the queen in Alice in Wonderland, "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!" Those employees soon either went to another shift, or to another job, or I just got rid of them. But to tackle a task like the one you are doing??? Ain't no way! In high school Home Ec. we had to make a garment. I got so tired of ripping out uneven seams that I finally just cut them off. My grade was not good at all because I couldn't wear it when it was done. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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WHERE ON EARTH DID YOU FIND THAT SPINNING WHEEL? I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD STILL BUY ONE OF THOSE.
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What a feat and an accomplishment that will be in this day and age. A throw back to simpler times.... perhaps a very calming task? I hope you share some pictures along the way, as well as the finished product. As for patience, there are sometimes I do have it, and other times I don't. On my job, I had total patience with my elderly residents, but total lack of patience with incompetent lazy employees who showed no compassion towards them. I was like the queen in Alice in Wonderland, "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!" Those employees soon either went to another shift, or to another job, or I just got rid of them. But to tackle a task like the one you are doing??? Ain't no way! In high school Home Ec. we had to make a garment. I got so tired of ripping out uneven seams that I finally just cut them off. My grade was not good at all because I couldn't wear it when it was done. In my early 20s, I had a small fashion business, making custom clothing.......I was living in Victoria at the time and would travel to Vancouver and the Lower Mainland buying fabrics and antique clothing at estate sales and thrift shops....Once I found an old moss-green velvet theater curtain which I turned into many Medieval hooded, floor-length capes.....I ordered buttons and accessories from artisans....jeweller and glass-blowers..... One of my favourite haunts was the bargain-basement at Saba Silks in Vancouver........Once I found bolts of velour in jewel colours and bought it all. I had previously found a little peplum style women's suit-jacket from the 40s.....I took it apart and made a pattern....it had 11 pattern pieces and a dozen darts....I cut the pattern pieces in all the different colours and made each jacket a different colour combination......they were gorgeous.. I still make a lot of my own clothing and I seldom wear clothing that I haven't altered in some way........I can't leave it alone, it doesn't seem mine until I do something to it........Yesterday, I got out a black cowl-neck sweater I bought on sale in the Spring....I really liked it, except for one thing......There was a draw-string in the cowl......two shiny metal eyes and a cord hanging down.....it was superfluous.....ugly.....the only way I could get the eyes out was to cut around them with scissors....part of me was shaking her head at the part of me who was cutting holes in my brand new sweater, but I couldn't resist.....I then pulled out the cord and very neatly darned the holes with black embroidery thread........
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What a feat and an accomplishment that will be in this day and age. A throw back to simpler times.... perhaps a very calming task? I hope you share some pictures along the way, as well as the finished product. As for patience, there are sometimes I do have it, and other times I don't. On my job, I had total patience with my elderly residents, but total lack of patience with incompetent lazy employees who showed no compassion towards them. I was like the queen in Alice in Wonderland, "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!" Those employees soon either went to another shift, or to another job, or I just got rid of them. But to tackle a task like the one you are doing??? Ain't no way! In high school Home Ec. we had to make a garment. I got so tired of ripping out uneven seams that I finally just cut them off. My grade was not good at all because I couldn't wear it when it was done.
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