And as of this morning we are BOOKED for SAFF!! Yay!!!! I see us serving up some food and cocktails for fellow SAFFers in this place. We are so excited!! Now we just have to figure out if we are getting a booth or not. Maybe we will just bring yarn bowls and sell them out of the cabin. Let's see - with each yarn bowl purchase you get a free martini!
Here's what I finished up last night.
I think it is still a little too tight but I have no idea really. It's hard to tell because this fiber is kind of coarse anyway. The consistency is getting better but still a long way from "good" I think. Eventually I'm going to work up the nerve to try some of that yummy pencil roving I bought at Knitch. Hey, when the bobbin gets too full does the fiber stop feeding onto the bobbin well? That's the point I stopped at b/c the yarn wouldn't feed very well. Just wondering if that is my clue that the bobbin is full. Lemme know on that one.
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That was hysterical!!! I loved that newspaper article from the Onion and intend to pass it on!!!
I'm with Sara, too funny! Your yarn looks really nice! I'm not a spinner, but I would assume the feed is affected when the bobbin is full.
Let me just say that our government makes me very very afraid. Your yarn is looking better every time! Saving my pennies for a bowl.
That article said they wanted to start this project with TWO alpacas, let nature just take it's course and the money will just start rolling in. The gestation time for alpacas is 11 months. If Congress plans on making money by breeding alpacas shouldn't they start with more than TWO?? I also have heard that alpacas spit, which would probably be a good thing since they will be taken care of by members of Congress. OH...did I really say that?
I find that as the bobbin fills up, I need to keep tightening down a bit on the brake tension to keep the yarn feeding onto the bobbin. I generally have to make this adjustment 3 or 4 times per bobbin. The bobbin isn't full until it's full (that is, the yarn is bumping into the flyer!).
I thought alpacas only spit when they were agitated. It seems kind of entertaining that this is their solution, especially when it seems that none of them seem to know a thing about alpacas, yarn, or textiles!
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