Finally!!!
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The first bobbin of the Merino is FINALLY done! I can now move on to the second bobbin! Wahoo! The Merino is very soft and squishy and I spin rather thin, so it takes an unexpectedly long period of time to spin up what appears to be a relatively small amount of wool. I wonder how long it's going to take me to fill the second bobbin???
I had planned to run out to a spinning group this evening and start on the second bobbin, but a dear friend happened to be in town for a quick visit and that definitely trumped spinning! Several of us met for dinner, knitting, and chatting and had a wonderful time. I did manage to knit several inches of the second Panda Silk sock. I think I'll have a new pair of socks by the end of the week! Then it's on to finishing the "psuedo twin-set" of green socks - the Jawoll Magic and Plymouth Zino.
Oh...I forgot about a photo I took on New Year's Day when I met my in-laws for lunch in Fredericksburg. We parked in the Municipal lot, and when I looked up, the back of one of the buildings had "Washington Woolen Mill" painted on the back. I thought, "How cool is that? I wonder if it's still in operation?". All of the buildings on that block now house cafes, boutiques, and other little shops, but at one time, it appears there was a booming wool industry there! I'm not quite sure what this building actually housed - the original very large mill burned down in 1910 and only a small part of a stone wall from the mill remains. There was an "extension" of the mill built in 1909 that made woolen pants, but I don't think it was housed in this building. The photos of that pants factory show a much larger building that doesn't look at all like the building shown here. Most notably, the pants factory had a pitched roof rather than the flat roof of this building. Here's an interesting tidbit - the actual Woolen Mill had been used as a hospital during the Civil War - they called the hospital the "Washington Woolen Mill Hospital". Perhaps the building pictured here is an "out building" of the original mill?
The first bobbin of the Merino is FINALLY done! I can now move on to the second bobbin! Wahoo! The Merino is very soft and squishy and I spin rather thin, so it takes an unexpectedly long period of time to spin up what appears to be a relatively small amount of wool. I wonder how long it's going to take me to fill the second bobbin???I had planned to run out to a spinning group this evening and start on the second bobbin, but a dear friend happened to be in town for a quick visit and that definitely trumped spinning! Several of us met for dinner, knitting, and chatting and had a wonderful time. I did manage to knit several inches of the second Panda Silk sock. I think I'll have a new pair of socks by the end of the week! Then it's on to finishing the "psuedo twin-set" of green socks - the Jawoll Magic and Plymouth Zino.
Oh...I forgot about a photo I took on New Year's Day when I met my in-laws for lunch in Fredericksburg. We parked in the Municipal lot, and when I looked up, the back of one of the buildings had "Washington Woolen Mill" painted on the back. I thought, "How cool is that? I wonder if it's still in operation?". All of the buildings on that block now house cafes, boutiques, and other little shops, but at one time, it appears there was a booming wool industry there! I'm not quite sure what this building actually housed - the original very large mill burned down in 1910 and only a small part of a stone wall from the mill remains. There was an "extension" of the mill built in 1909 that made woolen pants, but I don't think it was housed in this building. The photos of that pants factory show a much larger building that doesn't look at all like the building shown here. Most notably, the pants factory had a pitched roof rather than the flat roof of this building. Here's an interesting tidbit - the actual Woolen Mill had been used as a hospital during the Civil War - they called the hospital the "Washington Woolen Mill Hospital". Perhaps the building pictured here is an "out building" of the original mill?
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