Friday, November 7, 2008

You can spin with *anything* when...

you're desperate. Or can't find your spindle. Observe, mes enfants:












See? I rest my case. You can spin with anything!

What possessed me to spin with that, you ask? Well, I saw this fluff of pink stuff on the table. Seeing how the table is loaded with knitting and spinning crap (we usually have to eat elsewhere), I thought, "maybe I ought to start thinking of clearing it off." So...I picked up that pathetic 6" chunk of roving. Shut up. It was a start. Then, a chewed-up pencil caught my eye. I tied the fluff onto the middle of the pencil and gave the pencil a whirl. Wibble-wobble. Stuff slid all over the length of pencil. Wondered what I had that could stabilize it some. Nothing on the table. Wandered over to the 'frig and found that old baby carrot just sitting there. No way was it going to get eaten. Stuck it on the end of pencil (which actually had a point. NO pencil around here has a point - they're all perpetually broken off.) and there I went. Even self-plied it using the carrot-pencil spindle.

2 comments:

Delighted Hands said...

Shaking my head in wonder........I do appreciate the scientific splendor of it, though!!!!!

Fairy Spun Fibers said...

ROFL! Yes - I thought my, er..."invention" was just right up there with rocket science :-)