I had a finished sock to show you. It’s pretty nice, too. As I got ready to take some pictures of its fancy new and improved heel and it’s pretty picot top, C called me via walkie-talkie (we aren’t wired for phone yet) to tell me that the ahemmm… electric skein winder was ready to try. I grabbed two skeins of yarn that needed attention, my coat and gloves and ran down to the shop. Almost. Sam ran out the door when I opened it. He came along. We had to stalk a few snow balls and rough up the newly showing dirt along he way.
I am so proud of this. C has been working on it for a month or so. We’ve been dreaming it a lot longer than that. This is a prototype. It works like a dream, smooth, no jerky stops and starts. It holds the speed and keeps track of the yardage.
pretty neat, huh?
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24 responses to “something new!!!”
You must be thrilled. And Chris is looking pretty pleased with himself there in the background.
I had to look at that second picture twice – at first I thought he was holding a remote control! LOL Now *that* would be doing it RIGHT. 🙂
YESSSS!!!!!! That is absolutely wonderful. It looks like it would be perfect!
THAT is amazing. I am very very impressed.
THAT is cool. And by prototype, I’m thinking that it may be available to eager winders at some point 🙂
That is awesome Judy! What a talented man C is too.
Way neat! Isn’t it good to have a crafty chap?
Wow, very impressive!
An excellent example of good ole Yankee ingenuity and a knack for woodworking. I’d say he’s a keeper!
Oh, I thought he had a remote too! I was going to say: now, that’s a man… not only automate it, make it a remote!
Looks cool…
And here is my inner speed-junkie:
how fast does it go?
🙂 Kate
The electric ball and skein winder beats a picot topped sock any day of the week! Kudoos to C on a job well done…”contriver
extraordinaire”!…
Tell me more……..
very cool!
Fantastic! Hats off to C! That certainly will speed things up a bit.
Very Cool. You should keep that man. He’s useful.
VERY neat! I hope that’s a beer C’s holding – he deserves it!
And it’s beautiful. Form and function = beauty.
congratulations on the new toy. If he makes another and wants to sell it, drop me an email, ok? I’d like to be on the list for one of those. (My shoulder is wearing out hand-cranking skeins.)
He is no mini-c;I can see that!!!
I want one! What a nice thing to have. I’m extremely jealous.
Oh wow, is that a counter I see on the skeinwinder? So it will automatically keep track of the yardage? That is super-cool. 🙂
Oh. My. Gracious. That is awesome! I knew I was stalling on buying a swift and winder for a reason.
wow wow wow
that is incredible… isn’t he just the cleverest thing?
Very, VERY cool.