Spinning My Wheels
I’ve been working away with the tour de fleece, but there’s not much to show for what I’ve done. It’s slow going. It’s HOT and humid. I think that’s the biggest issue. I really don’t want to even look at fleece right now. I’m not complaining, I know that in January I was asking for the heat.
Little by little I’m carding and spinning up thick singles right now. With the heat, and the short intervals of spinning time I’m not making great progress, and what’s worse is that I’m getting bored already with spinning white fleece. That’s a lie, it’s not entirely white. It’s coloured by the flecks of desperate vegetable matter still clinging to the wool….
I think on a cooler day, that the yarn will look rustic and natural and make really warm and sturdy mittens, but right now I’m thinking of iced tea not mittens!
In other wheel spinning action, my trusty 3 speed bike is now working again! It had a terrible run-in with a whipper snipper last week which left the tire wall threadbare. Thanks to my dad, his tools and WD40, we got the tire changed in record time.
whipper snipper was the last straw
Now, don’t feel too sorry for me…the bike is and always will be a bit of a junker–the kind of bike that is worth less than the lock. It’s my favourite summer transportation though, and I was eager to get it back on the road.
This tire may have doubled the worth of the bike!
If the weather stays like this, I may just ride to the lake and jump in!
What are you doing to stay cool?
Tags: fleece, spinning, tour de fleece
