A bit of catch up
It is early morning and I thought this would be the perfect time to do a bit of catch up writing. Monday was my spinning night out and I took with me some lovely merino/corridale roving in a dark brown shade. This will make some wonderful socks!
Time passes quickly with friends and when my husband arrived to pick me up, the first words out of his mouth were "the fleece is here". Of course, I figured that it had arrived while he was at home puttering around the house waiting to come and pick me up. No, it was waiting for him when he got home.
Imagine walking into the house and finding around 100 pounds of fleece in plastic bags sitting just inside the door! Lucky for me, my husband is used to such things and could actually approach this massive pile with humor and a bit of excitement.
After I got home, we did a bit of rearranging and can now get in and out of the door without a problem. I have already sorted through three of the bags and will box some of this off and send it to the processor and wash/dry/dye/card the rest myself.
My back isn't what it used to be, so I work with smaller batches of washing than I used to. One of my purchases this year, besides the picker, is an electric salad spinner. I have long used a salad spinner to spin dry the fleece that I wash, but this one is electric and I hope that it will spin faster than I can do manually and perhaps spin out even more water. Of course, I use just small handfuls of fleece at a time, but this goes much faster than it sounds.
With the water spun out, the fleece dries faster and thus I can get to the dyeing even sooner than waiting for piles of fleece to dry. Kinda goes against the grain waiting for it to dry just to wet it again, doesn't it? Still, there is often more fleece drying at any one time than I am ready to dye it, so in the end it does make sense.
The weather is rainy today and it looks like I will be doing drying of fleece in front of a fan today unless the sun comes out this afternoon.
My youngest son and his SO came over last night, along with my granddaughter, Chloe, for my husband's birthday. They suggested a trip in August (for my son's birthday) to Yellowstone National Park in our motorhome. We will have to arrange this later in August, as my oldest son is going to Alaska around the middle of that month and wouldn't be able to watch the dogs.
The trip sounds like fun and we will be very busy as we are going on two trips in July. The first to Montana to visit with a friend of mine, the second to a spinning retreat closer to home.
Time passes quickly with friends and when my husband arrived to pick me up, the first words out of his mouth were "the fleece is here". Of course, I figured that it had arrived while he was at home puttering around the house waiting to come and pick me up. No, it was waiting for him when he got home.
Imagine walking into the house and finding around 100 pounds of fleece in plastic bags sitting just inside the door! Lucky for me, my husband is used to such things and could actually approach this massive pile with humor and a bit of excitement.
After I got home, we did a bit of rearranging and can now get in and out of the door without a problem. I have already sorted through three of the bags and will box some of this off and send it to the processor and wash/dry/dye/card the rest myself.
My back isn't what it used to be, so I work with smaller batches of washing than I used to. One of my purchases this year, besides the picker, is an electric salad spinner. I have long used a salad spinner to spin dry the fleece that I wash, but this one is electric and I hope that it will spin faster than I can do manually and perhaps spin out even more water. Of course, I use just small handfuls of fleece at a time, but this goes much faster than it sounds.
With the water spun out, the fleece dries faster and thus I can get to the dyeing even sooner than waiting for piles of fleece to dry. Kinda goes against the grain waiting for it to dry just to wet it again, doesn't it? Still, there is often more fleece drying at any one time than I am ready to dye it, so in the end it does make sense.
The weather is rainy today and it looks like I will be doing drying of fleece in front of a fan today unless the sun comes out this afternoon.
My youngest son and his SO came over last night, along with my granddaughter, Chloe, for my husband's birthday. They suggested a trip in August (for my son's birthday) to Yellowstone National Park in our motorhome. We will have to arrange this later in August, as my oldest son is going to Alaska around the middle of that month and wouldn't be able to watch the dogs.
The trip sounds like fun and we will be very busy as we are going on two trips in July. The first to Montana to visit with a friend of mine, the second to a spinning retreat closer to home.
posted by Mary L. | 7:28 AM
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