i'm spinning 100% Wensleydale dyed by Blue Moon Spinnery. if you'd like a closer look, click here.
sighs and smiles. happy rumpelstiltskin.
Showing posts with label lendrum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lendrum. Show all posts
Sunday, January 29, 2006
MG: look who's here!
i'm spinning 100% Wensleydale dyed by Blue Moon Spinnery. if you'd like a closer look, click here.
sighs and smiles. happy rumpelstiltskin.
Friday, January 20, 2006
MG: lendrum ransom
in the comments to my last post, i received the following message:orchestrated allowed Cap'n Bulbous to hold my wheel for ransom. even my beloved handspuns are but prisoners to this menacing crew out to exploit desperate fiber addicts. threatening messages and photographic evidence have landed in my email (pirates don't have real digital cameras, just cellphone ones):
"Arrrr! Cap'n Bulbous and his pirate crew are a-holden yer wheel until ye pays the ransom."
"Yo-ho-ho a pirate's life for me!" the cap'n himself in his monogrammed sweater.
"Arrrr!" i hear his eyepatch and dagger are made of post-its!
"avast!" post-it scimitar and newspaper hat.
even crabbycakes succumbed to the siren song of the fiber pirate.
as you can see, i'm in a pickle, especially since i've just run out of good old-fashioned Spanish gold coins. do you think Cap'n Bulbous and crew would accept handknit goods in return for safe passage?
Avast ye lily-livered lamb-lovin landlubbers! Ye'll not be gettin back yer wheel until ye pays the ransom! Doubloons aplenty!a certain someone, whom i've entrusted with my lendrum's journey, has
--Cap'n Bulbous and his pirate crew
"Arrrr! Cap'n Bulbous and his pirate crew are a-holden yer wheel until ye pays the ransom."
"Yo-ho-ho a pirate's life for me!" the cap'n himself in his monogrammed sweater.
"Arrrr!" i hear his eyepatch and dagger are made of post-its!
"avast!" post-it scimitar and newspaper hat.
even crabbycakes succumbed to the siren song of the fiber pirate.
as you can see, i'm in a pickle, especially since i've just run out of good old-fashioned Spanish gold coins. do you think Cap'n Bulbous and crew would accept handknit goods in return for safe passage?
Thursday, December 22, 2005
MG: eeeeeeeeee!!!!!
guess what i did on the longest (astronomical) night of the year? i spun ON MY OWN WHEEL! my ridiculously generous family blew me away with this (!!!) yesterday.
my little lendrum is a single-treadle (i learned on a single-treadle Ashford Joy, and my left foot enjoys being tucked under me). i love, luv, lurve my wheel; it's an amazingly well constructed piece of machinery--simple, smooth, and sleek. unscrew a knob, screw on two knobs, set two bands, and the wheel is ready to spin. i love the hinged back maiden mechanism: easy bobbin changing yet sturdy. i luuuuuuuuuuuurve my lendrum. teeheehee.
i've been traveling a bit. left berkeley two saturdays ago and just now getting comfy in ohio. photo access is not yet set up, so you are being tortured w/ eye-candy-less blogging.
last week was NYC, where, of course, a couple of yarn stores were involved. oodles of fun was had at Habu and The Point. Habu was conducting fancy photography with a whole basket of swatches. word is they are setting up an online shopping cart!
thank you so much for your comments about Karenina and for cheering on the little red footie. a special thanks to those who delurked; i was touched. i think you guys were right; it was just all the stress and pressure. therefore, i hate to confess... the very night after i wrote that post... in a fit of trying to feel like i have things in order... i frogged the footie. :( it will be reknitted, really, i promise.
when i can, i repsond to comments by email. i usually click on the links you leave and try to find email addresses (b/c blogger doesn't take email addresses. argh). however, i'm appallingly behind, so give me a little time and please excuse my rudeness. Anabel, thank you for all your lovely comments. wish i could write back directly. your blogger profile is diabled; do you have a blog i can visit?
off to catch up on blogs! and spin spin spin.
my little lendrum is a single-treadle (i learned on a single-treadle Ashford Joy, and my left foot enjoys being tucked under me). i love, luv, lurve my wheel; it's an amazingly well constructed piece of machinery--simple, smooth, and sleek. unscrew a knob, screw on two knobs, set two bands, and the wheel is ready to spin. i love the hinged back maiden mechanism: easy bobbin changing yet sturdy. i luuuuuuuuuuuurve my lendrum. teeheehee.
i've been traveling a bit. left berkeley two saturdays ago and just now getting comfy in ohio. photo access is not yet set up, so you are being tortured w/ eye-candy-less blogging.
last week was NYC, where, of course, a couple of yarn stores were involved. oodles of fun was had at Habu and The Point. Habu was conducting fancy photography with a whole basket of swatches. word is they are setting up an online shopping cart!
thank you so much for your comments about Karenina and for cheering on the little red footie. a special thanks to those who delurked; i was touched. i think you guys were right; it was just all the stress and pressure. therefore, i hate to confess... the very night after i wrote that post... in a fit of trying to feel like i have things in order... i frogged the footie. :( it will be reknitted, really, i promise.
when i can, i repsond to comments by email. i usually click on the links you leave and try to find email addresses (b/c blogger doesn't take email addresses. argh). however, i'm appallingly behind, so give me a little time and please excuse my rudeness. Anabel, thank you for all your lovely comments. wish i could write back directly. your blogger profile is diabled; do you have a blog i can visit?
off to catch up on blogs! and spin spin spin.
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