Showing posts with label antique wheel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antique wheel. Show all posts
21 July 2013

Spinning at the Garden

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Today I was at the local Garden - it’s an old homestead that was made into a historical site: the old house is still there, and the guy who ...
12 July 2013

Good Things: Tour de Fleece

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It’s always important to balance the hard discussions with some easier ones, so let’s talk about the Tour de Fleece! After all, fibre arts a...
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15 June 2013

Ontario, Day 6

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I should be sleeping, but the adrenaline rush is still on full blast so I might as well post today’s update while the valerian/hops blend ki...
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14 June 2013

Ontario Days 4 & 5

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I’m (finally) feeling tired so this’ll be brief. We went to St Jacobs, where we met up with my sister and her husband, and checked out the...
10 February 2013

Pink. Purple to be added shortly.

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The PTSD fatigue has, up until recently, kept me too tired to spin at the wheel (thank goodness I found supported spindles - I can still spi...
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22 August 2012

Whappity Things for Paint Removal

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I've been working on a lovely Norwegian wheel recently, removing some truly horrid deck stain that some well-meaning but clearly cluele...
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14 August 2012

Norwegian Wheel Restoration Project

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I was asked by a local spinner to see what could be done with a lovely wheel she acquired awhile back … a job I’m always happy to take on! ...
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04 July 2012

Meet Anne

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This lovely Norwegian split table wheel is named Anne, or so her previous owner tells me. My grandmother was named Anne, and so it seems q...
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09 May 2012

Other neat things seen at the auction

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None of these came home with me, though I know that the double treadle CPW went to a spinner and I suspect the other two did as well. :) The...
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14 April 2012

More from Grandma Shirley the Great Wheel

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I’ve been doing more spinning on the great wheel, as I have been feeling inclined to do a bit of walking back and forth in front of the fire...
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13 April 2012

First person spinner video

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The Boy has a really cool little camera that you can wear on a headband to take video of exactly what you are seeing (crazy people also moun...
12 April 2012

Grandma Shirley gets back to work

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Grandma Shirley is the great wheel that came to live at Apple Jack Creek about a year ago. She’s had her restoration work, acquired a new s...
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06 April 2012

The home for wayward wheels

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A local spinner found a wheel for sale on Kijiji recently – it was a great price (the people were clearing out Grandma-the-hoarder’s house a...
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11 May 2011

Aubertin, the tiny spinning wheel

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Through the amazing Ravelry network, I am now honoured to be the caretaker/owner of Aubertin, a very small little wheel from France. Here’...
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07 May 2011

Another graduate of the Home for Wayward Wheels, ready to go out into the world!

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One of the Czech Republic/Sudetenland (1930's era or thereabouts) lateral treadle wheels is now ready to go to a new home! The wheel o...
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08 March 2011

The Great Wheel

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I have read about Great Wheels, and seen one in pieces (though never one all together or in working condition). They’re neat wheels … they a...