Woodworking: February 2007 Archives
A short post today... a nice weekend with my parents marred only by the fact that my poor husband has been pretty miserably sick. But dad did bring me some spinning inspiration.
Dad and I have been talking a bit about spinning tools. One of the things I have complained about the most is not having a Lazy Kate that I really liked. Dad, who has just gotten to the point in his own spinnign where he needs to ply things, decided to take on the challenge. This weekend he brought me a proto-type to test out. Pretty neat, eh? Dad figured out a clever way to make the tensioning easy and adjustable, and how pretty is that walnut with the oak base and the brass pins? It's also quite solid and has enough weight that it wouldn't slide around easily.
Sadly enough, I have not been spinning all that much, so I had no way to test it out this weekend. But it has given me motivation to get back to a project that would give it a real work out: spinning the rest of my moorit CVM. I spent a little time doing that Sunday afternoon and was reminded why CVM is such a nice fiber to spin, even if it isn't dyed exotic colors.
