Stuff and Nonsense

Today has been odd so far.  I had a terrible sleep and just couldn't settle down to any one thing.  The upside of that and there is always an upside, is that while I couldn't settle to spinning, I did fix my little problem the wheel was having.

I did a little spinning the other day, from the very large bag of fleece that I washed and carded right from the raw fleece.  I would love to get that whole bag spun up to be part of my stash dash totals.  I did a bit and found that something kept hitting together making a wobble on the wheel.  At first I thought it was the susal wobble, and just needed something tightened.  Sometimes the flyer isn't set quite right, sometimes the bolts holding things together.  On checking, everything was good.  Nothing was out of alignment, nothing was out of place.  Weird.  I set it aside to just knit.

The other day, when I moved the wheel so I could sweep that corner, it was all sitting just so and the serendipity fairy took over my world.  The brake has a tiny peg that holds the brake band in place and that tiny peg was sticking out much higher than it ought to, and, when the brake was turned to the place where the pullup was perfect, that little peg was hitting the arm of the flyer as it spun around.   

The peg is now set in properly and voila, no more noise and no more wobble on the wheel.  Whoddathunkit.  I will remember to check this every once in a while.

See that little peg?  Seated perfectly.

I also picked up my coat this morning.  After yesterday's happy try on, and great day knitting on it,

I am so encouraged to knit more on this.  Knitting sweaters that are a comfortable fit for me is not a small proposition.  Knitting a coat to fit the way a proper coat should fit and knitting it long enough is much more intimidating. It has to have enough room in it to fit over your regular garments.  It is a lot of knitting on big dense wool.  For a very long time, it felt like I wasn't getting anywhere. It was hard to enjoy knitting it.  

A couple rows here and there over a long while and yesterdays good long knitting session has taken it almost to the waist.  I should be able to get it done before this winter.  Just think!  Only two winters late! 😵    

My head is still very sluggish, and even coffee isn't working very well, so this afternoon I am going to have a good nap, but until then, the coat is getting my full attention.  I have two and a half balls more of green for the body and I intend to burn through that like nobody's business. and then it is only the grey to go.