Today was spent up near Davis in the mild heat checking out the Yolo Fiber Mill. Amazing stuff! There were awesome vendors from all different categories, even a guy selling a couple of bottles of Olive Oil. Tactile was there...and with my wheel!!! YEA!!! Sorry, still dancing around the house with a GIANT SMILE. YEA!!! Okie, that over, for now : ) Brooke helped me to assemble my beautiful new child, and then i proceeded to camp out spinning for a while. Bliss... I had brought some of the Alpaca i bought in Taos and it's spinning wonderfully. Super soft and such a pretty blue/gren combo.
There was a guided tour of the Mill learning about the carding, spinning, and plying processes on the super mega giant machines. So many awesome gear shots. I'm totally getting excited about Steampunk Halloween (separate post to follow with a costume update).
Also managed to remember that my camera takes those moving pictures things...movies i think ; ) Here is the guy who makes the plying happen desmonstrating how it works and another showing the winding off of a skien of yarn. It's amazing what technology has produced over the years, and more amazing to think that most of these machines were from the 50's-60's ish.
There was a guided tour of the Mill learning about the carding, spinning, and plying processes on the super mega giant machines. So many awesome gear shots. I'm totally getting excited about Steampunk Halloween (separate post to follow with a costume update).
Also managed to remember that my camera takes those moving pictures things...movies i think ; ) Here is the guy who makes the plying happen desmonstrating how it works and another showing the winding off of a skien of yarn. It's amazing what technology has produced over the years, and more amazing to think that most of these machines were from the 50's-60's ish.
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