So I'm at Lily's and I forgot my knitting. I was pretty annoyed since I'm watching her amazing TV set up and I should be knitting. Anyway I decided to brush her cat, Harry, while I watched and well she has two of those slicker brushes that are very like wool carders and after brushing him a bit I was playing around with them because I don't have carders yet but I do have an alpaca fleece lying around somewhere and I don't want to pay $150 if I don't have to. What if I'm no good at carding? What if I hate it? So anyway I was carding some cat fur and I started rolling it out and twisting it and it wasn't really working, it wasn't staying twisted so I realized I needed a drop spindle. Now naturally someone as crafty as Lily has a drop spindle but she also has yarn on it and I didn't want to screw anything up so I decided to make one. So yes, that is a drop spindle made out of a pencil, a push pin and 4 note cards that I glued together with about 3 feet of 100% Maine Coon yarn. And it only took about 2 hours... send yarn... please...
