..and a partridge in a pear tree

Well, not exactly. But those two words might appear here:


This was a surprise present from WM - I mentioned in passing through Kinokuniya on 18th December that it looked interesting and I unwrapped it on Christmas morning. Don't you love it when hints are taken so well?

The other thing he gave me was a brand new wool winder!

DD and SIL2B gave us a book on property investment and a gift voucher from the local Christian bookstore. Who needs partridges or pear trees when five and a half books books, a gift voucher and a wool winder will keep me out of trouble, if not out of yarn or book stores? LOL

Pretty Yarn Cakes

Here are the first yarn cakes made from my hand-dyed acrylic yarn on my 'new' [secondhand] wool winder which I bought on Ebay from Kate. She was the only seller able to answer my questions about how much yarn the winder would hold and as a knitter, not just a seller, knew how it worked [and that it did work].

For DD and I it was a challenge - we had never used a wool winder before so we had to work out how to put it together, how to make the gears mesh without breaking anything and how to thread up the winder. We've been pretty successful, don't you think?