My car is now freed from the garage. The garage door was fixed today. The broken spring was older than the service man who fixed it. The spring was from the late 1980’s,the original garage door spring from when our house was built. He had never seen one so old. The new spring is made of lighter more brittle steel that should last only 10 to 12 years. How is that good for the environment? We should be making things that last as long as the part it is replacing. We definitely live in the era of greed by big business. Make things break sooner and don’t provide replacement parts of the same quality if they break.
I did a bit of hand carding of an art wool batt that was just so not right for spinning as it was. The carders worked great. Now if I can just get a decent rolag off the carders. I do admit that it has been a few years since I have carded wool by hand. I am keeping up with spinning one 2 ounce/ 50 grams batt a day. I can feel the difference already, which means that I am almost hopelessly out of shape. Maybe by the time I go through all 3 boxes of mini batts, I will be ready for the 4 ounce/ 100 grams a day. If not 2 days is not an unreasonable amount of time to spin a braid. Even after a major de stash of wool, I still have a closet full of wool. The good news is I kept only what I wanted to spin.
Then that of course will lead to more weaving and knitting. It will mostly go to my charity projects. That is unless I like it a bit too much to let it go. As I feel better, hopefully more projects will get finished and leave the house.
