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October 24, 2006Be Careful What You Wish For...Recently I was wishing that I could find some interesting additions to my daisy wheel (winder, flower loom etc) collection at a reasonable price. It seemed that even simple sets of the 1000 Flowers looms were selling for $20 or more, a price I would only be willing to pay for something a bit more rare like a Hiawatha Loom. Then I saw these on Ebay:
Even better is that I won them! Even with postage from the US the price is an absolute bargain. Aside from the daisy looms there are also spider looms which are for making teneriffe lace. I've been looking for spider looms for years. I'm a happy camper. Especially since if I sell the duplicate looms singly I'll recoup my costs and still have lots of interesting additions to my daisy loom collection! Yay! As for my spinning: the clown in a blender yarn is coming along nicely (sorry Zeeppo. I like clowns, really I do. I'm totally with you on the mime thing. Totally...)... Where was I? Oh yeah. The clown in a blender yarn is coming along nicely. I hand carded the red and blue, which took forever because my drum carder is still in the lockup an hours drive away and I had to use a really old crappy pair of hand cards. On the plus side, I'm now really fast at making good quality rolags with hand cards! I've finished spinning the red and green singles, and should have the blue finished tonight if I don't have to card more of it. I'm not sure yet. I'll post a picture tomorrow, right now I'm off to research the history of some of the looms I've won :-) No really, I'm going to get a coffee and do some work. I'm good. Really I am. I have vintage embroidery patterns for you and I'm off to scan the two booklets I haven't done yet. You'll love them, I promise (sorry Zeeppo, no clowns. Just cowboys) Entry posted by Sarah at October 24, 2006 9:16 AMCommentsI don't know if you'd call them valuable, but I'm definitely fascinated by them :-) You use them to make flowers like the ones in my article http://www.knitting-and.com/small-looms/loomsandyarns.htm I had one for ages before I knew what it was too! Posted by: Sarah B at October 25, 2006 3:48 PM
Hello,
Nina, Do you mean the crochet amulet bag? I'm afraid I can't give you permission to sell them bcause I didn't design that particular pattern, I was just given permission to put the pattern on the site. If you mean the weavettes amulet bags then go for it :-) The spider looms are the black things in the photos that *don't* have a handle poking up. They're like a gadget called a "daisy template" but they have a lot more grooves for winding a larger number of spokes and they're used for making teneriffe lace, which is related to daisy looming but involves a lot more embroidery, finer yarns and much more complex designs. Posted by: Sarah at November 1, 2006 12:04 PM
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Wow - I've had one of those Daisy thingies with the retractable spokes since I was a kid - I had no idea they were valuable. What do you make with them?
Posted by: Ruth at October 25, 2006 3:10 PM