One of the first things I do to prepare for a spinning workshop, retreat or other such meetup, is to gather up all of my partially filled bobbins and decide which ones I can empty. Running out of bobbin space when you're away from home is counterproductive, right? This also gives me the opportunity to see what projects I've got on hold, abandoned, or have finished and left the ends hanging. This would be a good routine to program as once a month housekeeping, say before the spinning group meets. In addition to the bobbins, I decide which of my spindles are coming along and again, what needs to be wound off. Those cops (not all were large enough to be considered finished) were added to the drawer where the cops of spindled yarn are kept while more accumulate. I was surprised to see how many were in there. I spindle quite a lot, a bit here and there. Those minutes had really added up. Time to get some plied. I decided to set up my Spindler's Kate on a corner of my desk, thinking that I'd use some of those lost minutes waiting on phone calls, etc. to wind off two strand balls in preparation for plying.
That's a bit of cashmere and silk. Somewhere in my stash are a skein or two already to go. This will be a nice addition to the yardage.
4 responses to “Ten Minutes (for Tuesday)”
Your spindler’s kate is so cute.
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A drawer assigned to hold spindle spun cops?
What a great idea!
and your spindle spun yarn is gorgeous…such consistency!
Nice! Are you winding on a felted ball or a foam core that I see peeking out from under those strands? Great idea having the drawer for your cops.
I spy what looks like a skein of Sirena in the Northwoods colorway. Pretty.
I wonder how many oooohs and aaaahs when your readers eyes skimmed across the description cashmere and silk – gorgeous stuff.