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img_0153The new wheel is fabulous. The weather is gorgeous. Good friends are even better.  Reminds me of the MasterCard ad.  Wheel…$$$, Shuttle…$, Good friends, pricelsss.

I arrived on the island on time. Thank goodness for priority boarding for the shuttle, or I would have been delayed and missed my dinner engagement.

Karen & Barrie met me at the shuttle stop. We dropped by my little cottage to drop off my things and pick up my car.  But the cottage was littered with construction crap.  They took one look at it and said, “the guest room is made up.”  We then proceeded to Toby’s to meet up with another couple for dinner.  Fun and frivolity.  Good friends. What can I say?

Next morning, I drove off to Blaine to meet up with James Watson.  We’ve decided to meet half way to take delivery of the wheel.  No UPS involved this time.  The weather turned gorgeous.  Once I had taken possession of the wheel, I took a leisurely drive back to the island.  I stopped off at Deception Pass Park and walked the length of the bridge.  I saw swirling eddies (current change occurred during my walk), 2 bald eagles, Navy test flights, but no grey whales.  The greys are in Saratoga Passage right now, but I was too far north.  The decision to stop and look for them was just an excuse to enjoy the glorious sunshine.

Yesterday and today are for the Whidbey Island Spin-In in Oak Harbor.  I won  a door prize and a raffle yesterday.  More later today.

Heading North

I should be on the island by evening. Tomorrow, I’m picking up my Watson Wheel! This time, we are not giving UPS a chance. I will be meeting James just this side of the US/Canada border for the delivery. Since James is delivering the wheel directly, the wheel will be mostly put together. (The wheel itself will be off for transport in my little island car.)

Whidbey Island Spin In is this weekend. I should have a bit of time to bond with my new spinning wheel.

Wish me luck!

Spindle Fun

Spinning Jill on a spindle reminded me how much fun spindles are, and portable. It’s easy to tuck a spindle and a bit of fluff in your purse/bag and pull it out whenever. And to top it all off, Kristine gave me one of her fun little pouches of fiber last week at the weaving retreat. The rovings are by-products of her dyeing process and she packages the bits of leftovers into fun little pouches. You can do as you please with them: wet/needle felting, spinning, embellishments, whatever. (I don’t see any mention of this on her website nor at Morgaine‘s, although I know that Morgaine sells them.)

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The pouches are full of colors and each pouch is different.  It’s a bit like finding the toy at the bottom of the Cracker Jack box.  You don’t know what you’ll find in there. (Okay, you do, since they are in a clear cellophane bag.) Kristine was spinning from her pouch with her drop spindle, grabbing whatever bit of color that she touches first. This provided a completely random assortment of colors and lengths of singles.  When plied together, you get even more surprising combinations.

I couldn’t resist. I immediately started spinning from my own pouch. I’ve also experimented by pulling several short lengths of fiber of different colors together and drafting them together for a marled single. Intermixed with straight lengths of a color, the marled single keeps things shaken up. Between Jill and this pouch, I haven’t touched my spinning wheel for quite a while. It’s addictive fun!

Blog Note: After the blog move, I’m no longer getting email notifications that a message has been left on the blog. I have to physically visit the blog to see the messages. This also means that I can no longer reply to you via email regarding your posts. I will be leaving my replies here on the blog.  A search shows that this appears to be a common sporadic problem with the current version of WordPress. It may go away on its own. I just won’t know when that might be.

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