Hubby is taking a day off work today, so I do not expect to accomplish much. 🙂
- I have been doing some planning for next year, and printing off requirements for entries into various future shows.
- Today we are going to decorate for Christmas, and hopefully reduce the Christmas clutter in my studio.
- I also am going to have the cradle taken apart and removed from the studio. That should open up the space marvellously!
- I am also sorting through my strips and bits and pieces and organizing them into bags according to colour family.
- That and more spinning is on the plan for today. I want to finish the singles for my Blood Red yarn by tonight. 🙂 I am on the second bobbin now.
Update:
- Decorating done
- Cradle broken down and in the garbage…it was beyond redemption. We found the crossbar had cracked in several places, making it unsafe for an infant or anything else really.
- I finished plying the singles.
- Printed off the applications to shows/exhibits.
Also…
- Phoned a friend who needs some of my stuff I am more than happy to unload. Found out she could use a couple other things I am willing to unload. Had to phone someone else to arrange pick up and delivery. They were coming to town anyways.
- Contacted an ESL student about all her stuff at my house. I was trying to sell it online for her but it has not sold as hoped. Determined it all is going to charity. So organized that. Won’t happen till later this week, but it will be out of my house by Dec. 1st! 🙂 Said student was over here going through her stuff seeing what she wanted back. 😆 Funny how that happens sometimes. You think you don’t want something and then get rid of it and wished you hadn’t.
- Connecting up with some ESL teachers I know about finding resources to send overseas to help a couple of children learn English.
My house is beginning to look neater… 🙂
Hi Jean,
How do you get the singles you are spinning ready for hooking? I just got my wheel this week. So much to learn.
All the work in your studio has made me dive into mine. I’m dyeing wool as I clean. Thanks for the gentle push. I’ll love getting all the small pieces organized again. How do they multiply so fast. 🙂
Glad I am motivating you Chris. 🙂 I spin two singles, ply a 2 ply yarn, and process to hook. Or I just spin a chunky single to process for hooking.
I process mine by winding it on the niddy-noddy and tying it in a figure 8 at least 4 different places. Then soaking it in warm water with Eucalan for an hour. Then I rinse it out and snap it to stretch out all the kinks. Then hang it to dry on my drying rack. 🙂 After that it’s fine for hooking.
You might want to look at a book on processing handspun yarn. If it’s a good one it will have photos of the process as well as a description.
Hope that helps. 🙂
Thanks Jean