When I got to my spinner guild meeting yesterday, I pulled out the bobbins of wool that I had brought along to ply - hopefully the last ones to finish the yarn for The Shepherd's sweater - and when I tried to find the end on this bobbin - it was no where to be found! And of course, I had pulled and twisted and made a huge mess of the thing.So I put it back in my bag and worked on some merino that I'm spinning up for a co-worker.
At the end of the meeting, I pulled it back out to try to find the end again and someone walked over to ask me what I was doing - after explaining my plight, she said - did you try rubbing tape over it? No, duh, that would have been too easy (altho these singles are so "sticky" that may not have even worked)
Last night I sat down and decided that I was either going to "fish or cut bait" as the old saying goes - in this case it was cut thread - I pulled out the nice roll of packing tape that we have - didn't work - I'd succeeded in practically tangling every thread on the top layer - so I found what I thought was the most likely spot and snapped the thread - g
ot me quite a ways until I got to another spot where it wouldn't go any further and realized it was where I had rewound some of the other - wound that off, and voila (sp) off I went.One more bobbin done - probably about 100 yards -
So far I have about 950 yards - like I said last week, I thought I had about 12oo - So I either radically miscounted or lost two skeins - and I don't know how that could have happened as I was keeping everything together - oh well -
Now, I'll have close to 1150 - I hope that will be enough - Don't tell The Shepherd, but I'm really tired of this yarn... Glad someone else is doing the knitting!
