I had ordered a spindle that I have wanted for a very long time. Yes, I know, I have a spinning wheel, a small collection of drop spindles (as well as a Russian support spindle that I haven't been able to use yet as I can't figure it out. True example of someone who purchased something based solely on how it looked!) but this spindle is one that I've wanted for so long yet held out until it went truly "on sale".
It came in and it was (is) beautiful! It's a Greensleeves spindle, made in Canary wood with a mahogany shaft. It spins like butter! I so love this. Not taking anything away from my wheel or my other spindles but this is just delightful!
As I was searching for better ways to spin with it on Youtube, I came across something known as a "wrist distaff". Now, if you've never used a drop spindle, you need to wrap your fiber around your wrist so that your spindle doesn't get tangled up with the unspun fiber. Rest assured, you WILL do that at least once (and I've done it THOUSANDS OF TIMES!). But I have never seen such a thing as this. Then I found out she had made herself one! Then I found out I could make one myself. This discovery led to a different one, instead of a distaff, you can use a "chalk" bag like those used by mountain climbers. Of which I am not one. Nor will I ever be one as I don't like heights and am way too heavy to want to support my weight by my toes (which cramp up) and my fingertips (which do likewise). But the bag has "possibilities"! Theirs were homemade too, which intrigued me even more. I have stash. I have sewing knowledge.
Well, if she can do it, so can I! Now I had started the day with good intentions, I need to do laundry and since it's rained every weekend so far, I planned on doing the wash today (no rain!!!), it was breezy, I did my first load at the crack of 8 a.m. I cleaned my kitchen, and then with my first cup of coffee, found the wrist distaff.
And my day ended just like that. One thing led to another which led to Pinterest which led to many hours later. Laundry, still in the machine. STILL. It stopped at 9:15 a.m. It is now 4:30 p.m. Kitchen, a bit messy as yours truly was too busy to be about the stuff that needed to be done. Here I am, on my computer, looking up "what to do with fiber prior to spinning it" and "how to keep fiber from wrapping around your spindle". "How to make a chalk bag." "What is a chalk bag and how does one use it". Hours later. What is wrong with me?? I have so much that REALLY NEEDS ME TO DO IT, I HAVE NO KIDS AROUND TO INTERRUPT ME, HUBBY DEAREST WENT TO WORK ON A SATURDAY AND YET HERE I SIT????
I don't know what I'm angrier about with myself over, finding something that I never needed before and now can't stop feeling I need, finding something new to make (thereby using up some of my stash) or the time wasted that now I will have to stay up late doing to make up for it, thereby putting off spinning on my new toy until tomorrow. Quite possibly this weird addiction I have to all things crafty internet-wise. Or my even weirder attraction to the internet, bordering on addiction. Seriously. Get off the computer NOW. Go clean kitchen, hang laundry, vacuum and then get thy butt downstairs to do the cleaning you started to do THIS MORNING that you've ignored all day. ARRRGGGGG......
This is why I sometimes envy Amish style living. Had I not turned on my computer with my coffee this morning, I would never have found out I needed something I didn't have and would never have seen stuff that I don't have that I can make (in my free time, which coincidentally I won't have because I am on the computer instead of getting the chores done that will give me the free time I need to do the stuff I want to do......) I was happy prior to finding out I wasn't and now I won't be happy until I make something new that I hadn't realized I needed. I could be spinning right now if it wasn't for my own foolishness......
So as you sit here reading how insane I've truly become, what should you be doing and more importantly, why aren't you?
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