Friday, March 16, 2007

wind it up

that atrocious gwen staffani song has been in my head since wednesday. that woman has some serious balls to rape the sound of music that way. now you can have it stuck in your head too! sorry about that.

why do i have wind it up on the brain? tuesday night was the guild meeting. (those guild meetings are a topic for another day. remind me.) i happily took possession of the swift and ball winder and headed home. first thing on wednesday morning, still in my pjs, i set it up and got winding.

and oh! the fun! and the speed! it took about four minutes to wind 250 yards of the kyoto cotton. and two minutes for hourglass noro. i went a little nuts. i dug out every poorly wound ball of yarn in my stash and went about setting it right. i wound 20 balls on wool on wednesday. 20! i did have them all lined up on my dining room table but started to worry about nefarious acts committed by microscopic bugs and so packaged everything up in ziplocks.

i am so excited! and i have to admit, if spinning is half as fun as winding balls i fear i might develop a new hobby.

a big shout out to bethy for talking up how much i need my own swift and winder in front of the boy.

3 comments:

Ms. Hedda said...

That's quite the contraption. But you're right, they do look like cakes. And all the yummy colours...

Ms. Hedda said...

Oh, and Gwen? That is the weirdest thing I've ever seen/heard. How on earth did they think that the goatherd song would be a good fit with hip hop ripoff? It's a worse than the "Sundown" remix.

Unknown said...

I live to give.

(Just getting caught up now.)