maybe lunch with a friend, and checking out a new spinning guild.

Nanknits: spinning guild eh? tell me more...

Saturday evening I'm going to a holiday reunion dinner-we all take a Greek dish so should be fun

Volunteering at a living museum giving candle light tours on Sat. My fav work day of the year.

wow you people lead interesting lives. I will probably be hanging another door

I used to spin my own yarn, but I've gotten rusty and my wheel is in need of repair. However, I recently acquired a drop spindle and the

local blogger group that I belong to decided to start up a new spinning group. I whined about my rusty skills and they both invited me to

come join them and show me how to do it with a spindle.

my mother has an old wooden spinning wheel she found in an attic in the Shetland isles in 1967

that's awesome. Mine is handmade by a man in Iowa so it is difficult to get repairs and parts. But I think I've found someone to do it.

my grandmother had a spinning wheel, carding brushes and two looms - we used to collect sheeps wool from fences for her.

My mum's is so old it ]

doesn't work anymore - it's warped and has some old woodworm scars too

In the Shetlands my parents used to make knitwear from local wool in traditional Shetland style

They earned a tidy living selling the jumpers to tourists

Isn't spinning a bicycling exercise?

but they used modern knitting machines for the main body and sleeves

hand knitting is a losing proposition money-wise. We make jokes that our handmade socks would cost $200 due to the time they take to knit.

bugger all

going to try doing as little as possible

it's a toss up between more paperwork or wikiwork.