Sunday
Jan102010
The view from here.
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 10:18PM
Is ever changing.
The drying room is visible from nearly everywhere else in the studio. It has three doors, and from my desk I have a clear view of my babies.
After the yarn is dyed, it gets washed and then hung up to dry on one of our nine drying lines. Sometimes the yarn has to compete for space with towels, because we don't have a dryer. Sometimes the lines get so crowded they sag and groan and moan and kvetch. I nicely remind them to pipe down.
As things dry, I take them down, and they get reskeined, which means they get put on a swift and rewound using a yarn winder. This gets rid of all the little hangy down strings that make a skein look unsightly. It also means that if a skein of yarn is tangled -- and they do get tangled, no matter how hard you try -- we deal with it before it gets to you.
And that's the view from here on a Sunday evening. Tomorrow will be even better.
Many thanks to all of you who've added your projects to our Project Gallery. As of this writing, there are 219 projects to see.
Please take a peek and add yours!
The drying room is visible from nearly everywhere else in the studio. It has three doors, and from my desk I have a clear view of my babies.
After the yarn is dyed, it gets washed and then hung up to dry on one of our nine drying lines. Sometimes the yarn has to compete for space with towels, because we don't have a dryer. Sometimes the lines get so crowded they sag and groan and moan and kvetch. I nicely remind them to pipe down.
As things dry, I take them down, and they get reskeined, which means they get put on a swift and rewound using a yarn winder. This gets rid of all the little hangy down strings that make a skein look unsightly. It also means that if a skein of yarn is tangled -- and they do get tangled, no matter how hard you try -- we deal with it before it gets to you.
And that's the view from here on a Sunday evening. Tomorrow will be even better.
Many thanks to all of you who've added your projects to our Project Gallery. As of this writing, there are 219 projects to see.
Please take a peek and add yours!
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Reader Comments (4)
omg what colourway is that pink/grey/brown in the third picture?
That's Yarn Love's Sleeping Beauty on Elizabeth Bennet -- soon to be stocked at Eat, Sleep, Knit. :)
There are some great colours there! Love the view from there!
oooh i love Sleeping Beauty! thanky for the info!