dry & dye day

the sun is out & so the pressure is on to get the wool washed & dryed, and get some dyeing in as well. It would be nice to take a time and just sit, but the summer is back for just awhile and i am so pumped about the idea of all the wool getting washed that is currenly in boxes in the basement, the numbers are low, i can almost see the finish line.
today saw some lovely gulf coast wool drying on the racks, also really nice border leicester, a beautiful sunny brown shetland, and then the rotation occured and some alpaca came out to dry.
Meanwhile i had set some kettles to going and dorset had been soaking to make sock kits. I have read that dorset makes a nice springy resilent yarn for socks, and as this particular fleece is not feltable i thought it would really make very practical sock wool. So some interesting colors, changing dye brands has thrown me a bit, i guess i have too much vinegar in the water and i am not totally used to the new colors i have mixed. I did come up with some lovely blues, a interesting kettle of purple and green, just not the purple i expected, and a little kettle of rainbow colors.
I have the next fleece for the rotation almost done and i think i can catch my breath and relax for a bit. i am also selling knitting needles on ravelry, spinning wheels on the lists and ravelry.
lovely day

sunshine,woolwashing and dye day

Yeah, the sun is out and the weather is on the upswing, the wool i decided to leave out last night is you guessed it, damp. Forgot about the heavy dew, oh well the rambouillet is in the basket waiting to get dried. I have a very nice border leicester in the wash along with lingerie bags of wool for me. Hmm, yeah no shortage there.
I hope, weather being what it is, that soon the basement will be free of unwashed wool. That day i am having a sale to celebrate. Today i will be getting out the dye and have some fun, i have wool and handspun soaking, waiting for the magic to begin. Now to pick another fleece to dye.
Will post pics of progress later, katrina
well turns out today isn't going to be dye day after all, hopefully tomorrow, today i'm recharging my battery instead. later

another day, and i keep on plugging away

it is tuesday the 2nd of sept. and i still have two wheels to sell. Will post the pics here, they are a Bea Klassic, it is a dutch wheel with flyer brake, and three large bobbins, a removalbe kate, and a niddy noddy and a skein winder.
The other wheel that needs to find a new home is the Norwegian Princess, a really lovely wheel, nice accent of darker wood or varnish on the maidens. It has 5 bobbins will spin medium and fine but really likes fine. 420.00. Both are plus shipping.
It is another day another dollar kind of time, i do get tired of the constant need to make money and today my body is telling me to slow down. I am also washing a really soft fleece that is very dirty, it may end up going to the curb.. Meanwhile i have some lovely wool drying outside, an outstanding merino cross, and a fleec that i think is a corriedale.tarhee cross, whatever it is, it is written on the file, it is very soft.
Tomorrow i hope to have my own personal dye day, well actually wednesday and thursday, the weather is supposed to be nice, so the wool washing will continue, and it is so nice to dye outside and also get some fresh air at the same time.
I keep thinking yes, life is an adventure, keep it positive, enjoy the moment.

making progress

well it has been awhile since i have worked on this, i have sold and shipped 5 spinning wheels, i have probable sales on two more, which leaves two to go. I will be very happy to be done with selling my wheels.
I am expecting a "new" spinning wheel in a couple of weeks, it is an 80 yr old wheel that is from the netherlands and hopefully it spins as well as it looks, and i sure hope some of my old bobbins will fit on this wheel. Someday i will again look for a multi tasker wheel, but for now the anitque wheels are just fine.
I am in the process of washing, drying and dyeing the wool. I have wool in various stages outside drying and boy am i glad to see blue sky, i so want to get all my wool washed. I realized yesterday just how tired i am, and how much my body needs to take a break. So i did try to slow down yesterday afternoon and evening, i ended up skeining some yarn that i bought in cones for sale and for me to dye.
I am going to be sampling some wool for feltability (or the lack of) today, i have an order for a lb of non felting cheviot, and as i have learned you never know.
Check out woolworld.org for pics of the wheels i have for sale.
later.

moving one

it is one tired woolworker here, i have sold two more of my wheels in 1 and 1/2 weeks, my favorite wheel is leaving on saturday, and i really hope to sell my folding lendrum wheel asap,. i did get my shipment from the netherlands, two bea spinning wheels and my bogway spinners. I have actually got one of the "new" wheels up and running. I have another to put together. The bogway spinners are great, no holding the hand way above the shoulder to spin actually takes very little action. Yeah, saves my arm.


I have a a very big to do list, and i am running on empty and trying like mad to make enough to keep my house. This past year has been really hard and sooo-- disappointing, so much for trusting the one ya love. ha! Last week was absolutely devastating, i sat and listened during a deposition as he lied, and lied, and then told of hiding money! Yup, he had said he had no money and he had alot of money!! I was left to beg family to pay our bills and he had enough money to help out, as actually it was our debt from our life. I had held on to my allusions till then, I was in an absolute haze of shock over how he is, good grief. I have been left with no funds, and on the brink of disaster.

Thus the frantic work to make money, i have been so busy the last 10 mths to keep it all afloat that i have not had time to build my web site (let alone learn the techy stuff) or to get my business up and running. He has spent his time doing a lot of nothing apparently, i guess getting a new life, while his wife was trying to pay the bills from his other life.

I like my optomistic side myself, it is just suffering defeat at the moment, better get moving, more stuff to sell.

and then theres the plumbing

Well thank goodness i sold the pioneer lady, i got the washer fixed, ouch! Now i have to deal with the failing plumbing, i certainly do not want to find my basement flooded some morning due to the rusted pipes giving way. The thought of all the wet wool that would create is overwhelming.
Today in Portland it is raining, i had pulled in all my wool last night, and while doing that I saw a possum in my yard, i had seen one in my headlights one night but i think this thing may be living in my yard. It certainly was ugly!
I am thinking about what to sell next, guess it is time to put somethings up on ebay. This week i plan on dyeing some wool and working on my web site, more techy learning to do. I never lack for something to do, guess that keeps me from getting too stuck, which could be a possibility at this stage in my journey.
I still can not find this blog when i go looking for it, hmmm better fix that.

and the washer breaks

07/27/08, yesterday i was up early and ready to wash some wool and get some dyeing done, and darn opened the machine and there were wet towels that had not spun, turned the machine on very ugly noise. Now this machine is older, at least 16, and has been fixed several times so i do not know if it is worth fixing again. Oh what a day, then i am trying to get pictures to my computer to send and that was another adventure, and should someone be reading this, i am selling a knitting machine well actually several and attachments as well. I fought with the computer and camera most of the day, very annoying I hope to make some progress on this blog today and get some pics of wool on the here.