i hadn’t been spinning much because the boy moved in, then i realized that i needed to get going with selling stuff because i’m broke, so in early july i picked up this fiber i’d had sitting around forever and got to work on it. from the get-go, my wheel was fighting me. it was super stiff (the wheel itself), and the flyer was hardly making a whole revolution before it would come to a really tight stop. the treadles were grinding and would shift positions without even turning the wheel. i tried everything. i adjusted the drive band, the tension band, the position of the flyer. we removed the wheel and the treadles and greased them up and put it all back together. still could barely get the thing to go. it was a workout just to get the treadles to move! so frustrating. i just gave up.
so i thought perhaps it was an issue of how thin i was spinning with the regular bobbin and flyer, and that maybe i should switch to the lace flyer. i had that thought like a month ago and just today decided to check it out. still no improvement. just as i was getting ready to stand up to go to my computer to email majacraft, the wheel loosened up, the treadling became effortless again, and the flyer started turning with no problems. how weird is that?? i finished the bobbin i had started so long ago and churned out the second one this evening, and have already moved on to plying. i don’t know what it was, but i’m so glad it’s over.
if you were wondering why i stopped spinning for so long, that was it. i’m excited to get back into it. my whole office is (still) carpeted with unspun fiber, so i’ll have plenty to keep me busy. today when i was sitting around feeling lonely and miserable, i remembered why i started spinning in the first place: to keep from feeling lonely and miserable. so i’m going to embrace it again and be productive and hope everything else falls into place, as it always does.
i wish things were like they used to be, a few years ago, when we all seemed to have so much less to worry about, we were crafting and posting about stupid, silly things, and (seemed to me, anyway) were so much less stressed. it’s so weird where you end up without even realizing it.
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