Emerging Humans and Textiles

Well the watermark design is now on the loom and weaving is progressing quite quickly except for a trip to Sydney halting its progress.

But it’s all for a good reason. My new nephew, Lewis, was born! So it was a packed weekend of holding him, and then holding him again and again. And also taking his sister Darby ice skating. That was great fun.

I’m overwhelmed by choice in shopping in Sydney so I didn’t manage to buy anything much – all I could think about was getting a double flyer for my single flyer spinning wheel.

This is not something you can walk into a shop and see….I always have to do mail order. A blog entry on Leigh’s site alerted me to different possible spinning ratios. I always knew this but just thought I had to adjust my hands and treadling feet in expert ways! Now I discover that wheel ratios are higher and more suited to the finer yarns I want to produce. No more treadling off my seat. And the further good news is the availability of a double drive flyer unit for my old single drive Ashford is available. Now that’s a good product. One that can be adapted years on.
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Dave holding the baby and
Teresa and Darby on the ice