It must be time...

[altivo]

For a serious housecleaning.

I've misplaced a drop spindle somehow. Not a little one, either. Too much yarn and fiber stashed all over...

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[vimsig.livejournal.com]

have a cup of tea first
:O)

[goldenstallion.livejournal.com]

I drop stuff a lot at work. Well, not that much but do, occassionally. My back hurts to pick up and it is so funny, in a way, that nobody else will bend down to do it.

I had training back in High School about cleaning up your shop work mess and it seems to be a thing of the past.

Thus and so I have to be their mother at work. Heh... and I am paid for this. Too bad the owner of our Company does not seem to care.

Max the horse

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Heh. The funny thing about a drop spindle is that you aren't supposed to drop it. But the one I'm looking for is one Gary made for me. The whorl is lathe turned from a piece of tropical hardwood, either bubinga or purpleheart. Hard as rock and heavy as one too, I remember he wished he had carbide tipped lathe tools for it. I can't have really lost it, it never goes out of the house, but it's buried somewhere in a box or sack of wool.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I had coffee, actually. I still haven't found the spindle, but I found a forgotten stash of yarn, and three whole stricks of line flax I had forgotten. Timely in light of that workshop just finished.

[vimsig.livejournal.com]

so a silver lining of sorts

The lost is found!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Found it. It must have been lying in the castle tray of the Mighty Wolf. Cats most likely are responsible for knocking it onto the floor between the loom and the wall, where it was hidden by a roll of warp packing. Now I'm ready for that drop spindle workshop on Saturday. Whee!

Yay!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Found it. Fallen between the loom and the wall, where it couldn't be easily spotted. Gary confirms that the whorl is bubinga (a kind of rosewood, very dense and heavy.)