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.

07/25/08, this week has found me washing wool, a wonderful romneyxfinn, a beautiful "black" rambouilet, Now a gorgeous "black" merino, and white lovely rambouilet, and a jacob that was a lot of work. I am trying to figure out the transfer of photos from camera to blog.
I am selling a wonderful spinning wheel i have, it is unique, It is called a pioneer lady and is one of about six of these wheels made, It was designed by Mike Keeves of New Zealand and is a copy of his little grace wheel, it is the 5 ratio version and differs in the builder and the design of the wheel and the wood and of course mike has moved on to all enclosed bearings with his 6 ratios wheels.
this i should say was an unauthorized copy, mike does know about this particular wheel. It has a tandem treadle that is so easy and smooth to use, one just needs to take a moment to get used to the heal toe action, with five ratios and tapered flyer shaft that is a pressure connnection. the bobbins change very easly.
the wheel is made of black walnut and weights with 7 bobbins on board a mere 16lbs, it has a carry handle cut out. Too make this wheel even more unique it comes with 19 double ended bobbins so should one end get damaged it is still usable. I bought this last year as a first owner as it had been in storage apparently, it also has a second flyer with smaller hooks, an extra footman, a pigtail and a matching orifice hook.
I am trying to figure out my camera so i can get pictures of this beautiful wheel up, this wheel is very good for spinning fine yarn. I am sure with the other ratio's it can do anything, but with the wool i have used it is quit fine. I do love this wheel but must sell it due to the dreaded financial short fall.
I am working on another project right now that also required my camera, i am inventorying my wool with pictures and remaining weight of each bag. A large project that will end with a nice sale of my wool.
Twas a lovely day here in portland, pleasantly warm not hot, a perfect summer day.

getting started

i am on a journey to gather my energy and creativity, to launch woolworld into the bigger world, which means learning technology, experimenting with everything from wool to dyeing to life in general. To stretch----------katrina