New Toys are Home

[affreca]

Drove over to OP to pick up the lot of stuff. Ending up not taking the stack of fabric sample books, they'll be just fine in the trash. We hauled everything but the loom in. It's big, and I want 1) have daylight, 2) make a path through the garage so we don't have to do stairs and 3) figure out exactly where I want it.

Spinning wheel is cute and needs a bit of tightening, but seems to work. I also got a box of roving (and two giant homemade drop spindles). It appears to be basic dark brown wool, but I figure it will be great for learning/practicing on. Barry already discovered the fun game of pulling roving through the handle holes in the box. Box is now on top shelf.

I sorted through the boxes of other stuff. I should not need shuttles ever again. Which makes me sad, because I'd just bought two boat shuttles, and now I have four more. And a lot of rug/flippy shuttles. A lot. There are some random dowels, and a couple of bits I have no clue about. I think the two pronged wood things are for winding yarn on. If I remember, I'll bring it to costuming.

Rearranged the yarn into two boxes. One is cones big enough that I could use for weaving, the other is random balls o'crap. Some of it is nice, but not enough for me to use. Speak up if you want random box.

Pretty neat.

Comments

[graydown.livejournal.com]

mm, yarn. Tempting. May I pick through it at next costume guild, or are you just looking to unload the whole box?

[affreca.livejournal.com]

You can just pick through it if you want, though I might forget as it is quite a while until the next costume guild meeting (sometime after the new year, I think). Or you could swing by and pick through it.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a real adventure in wool. I love that sense of exploration as you start to unpack boxes of stuff like that.

[affreca.livejournal.com]

The real fun is going to be unfolding the loom. It folds up (which is nice so I didn't have to take off doors to get it in like did for the last loom), but I'm not sure how to reassemble it. I guess I'll be googling for instruction books post Christmas.