Our landlady runs the local Steam and Gas Association, and this weekend they had their annual show. It's truly an amazing event - they have 70 acres with numerous museum buildings, and enthusiasts turn out from far and wide to show and sell their equipment. Most of the gear on display is fully operational, so one can see all these incredible steam engines in action, and machines run by them. There were also every imaginable variety of tractor, often being driven around by small children who were clearly experienced tractor drivers. Here's a small assortment of the photos I took (on my phone, sorry for the poor quality) - the rest are on our Flickr page.
I was there doing a spinning demo for their colonial crafts room, with my great wheel. Not many people because of the rain, but I got a lot of spinning done :-)
I believe that las thing is a loom.
For our update tonight we have 100 skeins of Robberfly (an old colourway revisiting) in Bugga! and an unlimited number of the same in Skinny Bugga!
Also, Rachel has finally found time to get to the laborious task of sorting and listing our large collection of mutant skeins. What, ask you, is a mutant skein? Alas it's not a giant, radioactive skein with 10,000 yards that glows in the dark. It's a skein with either a spinning or a dyeing flaw. We've classified them into 3 groups:
1. Point Mutations: Skeins with dye flecks on them
2. Frameshift Mutations: Burns or knots
3. Nonsense Mutations: Spinning problems (some section that's over or underspun, usually just a few yards)
All are discounted by 26.721% and are to be found under Attic Treasures, where they will go live at update time, tonight at 8 pm EDT.
3 comments:
I saw Robberfly and started jumping up and down in my chair... then I realized, it's not Robberfly I want to make a sweater with it's BLOWFLY!
Bring back Blowfly, Bring back Blowfly, Bring back Blowfly!
Being someone who majored in genetics, I LOVE your mutation categorizations! Points to you for your knowledge of DNA!
Thank you, Steph. I worked in molecular genetics in my previous life, and feel the need to sneak it in now and then, depsite its having nothing at all to do with our theme(s).
As to Blowfly, sorry, never never never. Recipe has been ritually burned, buried, dug up, burned again, beheaded, and then set out on a stake as an example to other offending dye recipes.
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