August 9, 2005
Cormo Waves
This weekend I treated myself to something that I hadn't done in a long time: I slept in until noon on Sunday. Anyone who knows me knows that I am not the proverbial early bird, but noon is usually a little past my normal weekend wake up time as well. Sometimes you just have to let your body take the lead and tell you what it needs to do. In my case, apparently, it needed a good long stretch of unconsciousness.
This weekend saw a little more progress on getting my Cormo and Silk blend rovings on their way to being a knit up project. I finished off another ounce or so of the red/orange and my first batch of the blue/green made it through the bathing and twist setting process.
I was hoping to actually get this plied as well, but then I went and did something that I didn't think was possible -- I pulled a muscle in my shoulder drop spindling! I spent the better part of Saturday and most of Sunday dosing myself up with Advil to deal with the pain. Now I know I'm getting old, when leaning over a bit to twist a spindle can cause this kind of effect. Maybe that's just one more hint that I need to get a functioning spinning wheel. Good thing I had my Pearl Barred Scarf to work on. Knitting was a bit more comfortable than spinning for me.
My shoulder felt better today, so I'm hoping that there will be some plying in my future. Nothing like having some delightful Cormo yarn slipping through my fingers!
I never thought of drop spindling as a potential shoulder injuring even. May the shoulder heal quickly and the spinning continue!
I hope you recover quickly from your spinning injury! The cormo yarn looks great!
Oh dear. I feel somehow responsible.
;-)
Beautiful, beautiful. Almost worth the spinning injury. (Who says that this is easy?)
yes! get a spinning wheel! you'll never turn back!
I had the same kind of issue with drop-spindling; my shoulder (after a couple hours) would complain for days afterward. With my wheel, I have to remember to get up and walk around every hour or so, but it's just so entrancing to watch all the fibers pull together (and not have to worry about dropping a spindle...).
it must be in the air, i pulled a muscle in my back spinning on my wheel and have been hunched over like quasi moto, not cool. not cool at all.
How on earth did you pull a muscle with a spindle? Yes, you must rush out and get a spinning wheel to prevent future injury! I like my Ashford Traveller, but do your own research and find what suits you--if possible, try them first, and prepare yourself for another learning curve!