Another day out at the Weald and Downland Museum in Singleton today. It’s the Ruby Anniversary of the Museum this year, which is worrying as I am older than the museum… Last night I went to the bonfire party and today there were more special events.
There seemed to be relatively few people at parts of the weekend I attended, possibly as the Musuem made everyone buy tickets, even members who had already paid for year-round entry – the cost to attend the full weekend would have been more then we paid to become members for a year! It’s understandable, but also a shame as there were plenty of new things to see and do, including the Red Devils parachuting in this afternoon.
This lovely spinner let me attempt using this wheel. I’ve never done long draw before, and this enables you to have a really long distance between the fibre and the spindle! She turned the wheel so I could concentrate on the fibre – it was OK to begin with and I kept backing away from the spindle-tip, and further away, and further away – I was almost in the next county, then the fibre broke. I had another go trying to spin the wheel myself and nearly took the top of my finger off, and produced a snarly bit of yarn which she kindly plied for me to keep as a souvenir.
I wore my finished Liesl today (which I think gave the game away that I might be a spinner and got me the offer to try out the wheel)! I found some buttons at www.eternalmaker.com that I thought were just the job:
I think I did quite well to come out of the The Eternal Maker with just these three buttons – it’s too tempting in there sometimes, not good for my purse!
Spinstar Creations 