May 11, 2003
Happy Mother's Day
Happy
Mother's Day! My youngest daughter, Sarah, went to a yard sale yesterday and
found these eleven cones of Conshohocken Softball 2.2 for $1 each. What a great
gift. I'm thinking the greenish blue on the right would make a good Wallaby.
I've knitted with it before, but I also think they'd make a great weft for a
blanket. You can't really see from the picture, but the multi cone under the
white one has flecks of navy, blue, red, and green. Anyone ever use this for
weft?
Another cool present I got was from Dan, my oldest son. He gave me this heating tool, that can be used for woodburning, stencil cutting, even soldering. I have some designs in mind for my Louet that I wanted to burn and I now can make up my own quilting stencils.
I'm still playing around with the Jacob. I think because it has so many burrs (at least that's what I think they are, it looks like tiny little sticks, not hay or straw) that the best course of action will be to rake it with the dog rake, then card it on my drum carder. It's really going to be a messy job. Even after raking out tons of stuff, the carder still got lots out. I'm going to spin up the first batt tonight and see how it looks washed up before I do anything else. I like Claudia's idea of hand carding it and Navaho plying, but I couldn't get it clean enough to do that. If this doesn't work, I'm just sitting it aside and going on. Life is too short.
Posted by Charleen at May 11, 2003 09:33 PM