erm, plus JO!

not in the plan, but….

happy thanksgiving surprise, jo lives here now. jo is a cpw of obvious lineage (jeremie (?) ouelet, quebec, last quarter on the 19th C.) who just popped up on craigslist in brooksville, alerted the troops and, almost before i really knew it, was here. easily the least expensive in the collection (by half!) she only needed some minor tweaking and a spa day and she's spinning very smoothly... not unlike liz, actually.

so now i have five (5) wheels. why? what will i do with them all? none have been here long enough for me to want to sell any of them yet. but  i’m still on my honeymoon with liz, so jo is just going to have to stand in line.

or in a back corner in the living room, actually. videos:

heeere’s jo!

 

jo all clean

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the fambly

veteran’s day holiday, just spinning with liz and ash.

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around 3/4 spun…

around 245 yards bfl, so far.

in case anybody thinks a truly fine wheel doesn’t make it easy for a new spinner?  wow.

it finished up around 380 yards at 20 wpi. yay!

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first!

 

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just hosting again.....

i am not worthy

beauteous liz

when i splurged on my spinning chair last month, paying just about full spinning chair price, it never occurred to me that it was simply an early arrival cooling its heels while awaiting its perfect match, but…?

meet liz.  she’s a very early ashford elizabeth, which was introduced in 1982 or so; this one was purchased in 1985 and sold, to me, on ebay just this week by her original owner, a lovely lady in boca.  at first i feared i might have overpaid, but then she arrived.  wow.  and she came with four spinning books from the 70s-80s, a set of hand carders and, of course, her matching horizontal lazy kate and four bobbins. she is enthroned in the living room, across from ash who, like me, is a bit in awe.

and so!  four.  i seem to be leaning more toward vintage than antique these days.

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