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Did I wake up in Queensland?
Dec. 6th, 2010 07:24 pmWhat is with this sticky weather? I mean it was 35 on Saturday and raining when we were on our way back from Tanunda.
Somehow we ended up at the Tanunda RSL Christmas party, where Ashwyn distinguished himself by recognising a grenade in the trophy cabinet then spending the rest of the time we were there trying to work out how to get it out of said (thankfully locked) cabinet.
I have gotten some more fibre for spinning, including some flax, hemp and silk. I thought I'd leave the flax and hemp for a bit as they are generally supposed to be trickier to spin than wool. For one thing they need to be spun wet (not need per se, but it apparently makes things much easier, and certainly the little experiment I tried supported this), and I'm not sure how well that's going to pan out in this humid weather. I have been having a go at spinning the silk. And producing the lumpiest silk thread I have ever seen. Silk fibre is beautiful to work with, as I'm sure you can imagine. It's like having a handful of down. And it actually spins really nicely, but the fibre tangles really easily, and so the lumps. The trick may be to work with small lumps at a time, as joins don't seem to be a problem at all.
I'm getting a vacation student at work tomorrow.
Erin apparently requires explicit instructions in how to use a shower.
We will shortly have lots and lots and lots of beans from the garden.
And the ant bite, which has never entirely gone away, is getting itchy again.
Somehow we ended up at the Tanunda RSL Christmas party, where Ashwyn distinguished himself by recognising a grenade in the trophy cabinet then spending the rest of the time we were there trying to work out how to get it out of said (thankfully locked) cabinet.
I have gotten some more fibre for spinning, including some flax, hemp and silk. I thought I'd leave the flax and hemp for a bit as they are generally supposed to be trickier to spin than wool. For one thing they need to be spun wet (not need per se, but it apparently makes things much easier, and certainly the little experiment I tried supported this), and I'm not sure how well that's going to pan out in this humid weather. I have been having a go at spinning the silk. And producing the lumpiest silk thread I have ever seen. Silk fibre is beautiful to work with, as I'm sure you can imagine. It's like having a handful of down. And it actually spins really nicely, but the fibre tangles really easily, and so the lumps. The trick may be to work with small lumps at a time, as joins don't seem to be a problem at all.
I'm getting a vacation student at work tomorrow.
Erin apparently requires explicit instructions in how to use a shower.
We will shortly have lots and lots and lots of beans from the garden.
And the ant bite, which has never entirely gone away, is getting itchy again.
