Hobbies. But first, I love the Moth Radio Hour on NPR. Don't catch it as often as I'd like, but thoroughly enjoy it when I do.
My hobbies fall into 2 categories: Fiber (especially wool) arts, and late nineteenth century mechanical homewares (sewing machine, music makers, etc.)
Two Saturdays ago, I took a day long workshop on great wheel spinning at the Newbury School of Weaving, 27 miles northwest of here, just across the VT border. Although I've made yarn at the great wheel before (learning from videos and books), taking the class was a real boost. It answered questions and filled in gaps. I want to take a week long weaving class there, but that will have to wait until Cielo is a less dependent on me.
I'm currently spending my evenings picking wool, a Wenslydale fleece I bought last year. Some is scoured and picked, ready for carding, some is not yet scoured, and some is scoured but not picked. I put something on YouTube and pick away. I will be spinning it on the great wheel. Left to right: picked, scoured and unpicked, raw (unscoured) in the plastic bag.
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Other fiber related projects in the works are a hooked rug I'm completing, a wool applique quilt I made 2 years ago that needs quilting, some Shetland wool I'm spinning for a shawl.
At the moment, I'm rebuilding the bellows on the Roller Organ I bought last year. It's all on the dining room table!
