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An Eventfull Day
This is a discussion on An Eventfull Day within the Non-Metalworking forums, part of the General Discussions category; My wife Cookie, got a hand operated yarn ball winder, she asked me to wind some skeins of yarn into ...
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04-17-2008, 08:03 PM
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 An Eventfull Day
My wife Cookie, got a hand operated yarn ball winder, she asked me to wind some skeins of yarn into balls while she is in the hospital. Picture me at my puter desk in the basement designated smoking/woodshop/yarn winding area, with the skein dropped into a small cooler with the winder fastened to the slide out keyboard rest and 2 cats an older one and a kitten helping. Older one kept jumping into the cooler and grabbing the skein as it unrolls, kitten is jealous and keeps biting older cats tail and grabbing it with it claws, then sets up on hind legs and slams lid shut on older cat, occassionally getting older cats head between bottom and lid. My shirt front was wet from the tears from laughing so hard and I had to stop often to LMAO at their antics. Older cat growling at little kitten while inside the cooler has dog scared to death there is a tiger or a lion after it. Like Cookie said with 2 cats anything can happen.
__________________ Irnsrgn Knowledge must be shared or it lies dead in the mind. The Blacksmith must use Hammer and Flame to force the iron down the path of his own choosing. I usually find it much easier to be wrong once in while than to try to be perfect. Last edited by irnsrgn; 04-17-2008 at 09:10 PM.  |
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04-18-2008, 05:04 PM
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sounds like you need an umbrella swift to put the skeins on while you wind balls. I remember when my wife was 9 months pregnant her spinning laying flat on the bed with one leg hanging over to treadle the spinning wheel. We were counting loops in her skeins in the hospital when she was in labour too. Sigh my youngest left for college last fall.
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04-18-2008, 05:53 PM
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Sounds like my house. Our one cat will "hide" and watch my wife while she knits. As soon as her head turns the wrong way BAM!! The cat has the skein in her mouth running away as fast as she can. I love cats. |
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04-23-2008, 10:25 PM
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Just wondering, can cats be shorn, carded and spun? Hmmm... I've got an all black longhair named Taz, as in "Tazmanian devil" and well deserved. It would definitely require head to toe chainmail but I'll bet it would parley into a nice cardigan. 
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04-25-2008, 10:50 PM
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I don't know about cats but some crazy spinner/knitter had my Malamute's hair shorn for three years straight so she could make a dog hair sweater.  |
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