Both phrase means that one just cannot deny his/her genes...
As I am getting older I find out that I am more and more like my ancestors... there were dressmakers, and not long after I stopped sewing for money I found that those women worked the same style I did. Of course I cannot deny my mother or my paternal grandmother either, I only have to look in the mirror, not to mention how close I feel to them when I knit...
And then I found out something else... only after bought my first spindle, learned the basics of how to spin and showing to my father "look dad, what can I do" did he told me, that my grandmother not only sewed, embroidered, crocheted and knitted, but...
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She also was a SPINNER... in fact she had angora bunnies, and she spun angora, which at the time was the poor man's wool...
No wonder I am so enchanted by spinning, and also no wonder I became so much better at spinning in a relatively short time... Of course I am still a beginner... but look:
I did this in august, and looks like this plied:
And with the help of my father (who instead of saying I am a total idiot taking up an other time, and space and money consuming hobby,for some reason was enchanted by the fact that I am interested in spinning) I got this beauty:
A spinning wheel from Tirol... It needs the hooks replaced on the flyer and some of the joints strengthen, but it is pretty nonetheless...
And then I found this one for next to nothing... less pretty, more sturdy, a wheel from northern Hungary.
And guess what... maybe because of the lack of time for trying and learn how to use the wheels, or maybe just because I like the spindles, I am still spinning with them...
Here is some lace-weight spinned from merino-silk... as a single:
And the thicknes after pyling:
(yes, that is an american cent... leftover from my time in Miami)
the firts 50 gramms became 300 meters of 2 ply:
3 comments:
Absolutely beautiful ! You are right, ancestry is right there in your genes, I discovered my "thing" with horses has something to do with my great-grandfather having a horse-carriage business...
Jealous(1)! Your laceweight is *gorgeous*!
csinosak,
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