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Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: Lesley Silvester on January 27, 2015, 11:59:49 pm
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I have just had delivered a Kromski Sonata and am looking forward to getting started. I love my Ashford Joy but it is quite small and I'm already having trouble with my spine curving so I want something that I will have to sit higher at. Having tried a friend's Sonata I decided I liked it and advertised for one on Ravelry.
I'm very frustrated because I haven't quite assembled it correctly but I am going to visit my friend on Thursday so she can sort it out. Dying to start spinning on it. A jumbo flyer is the next thing on my list.
I really MUST sell my Ashford Traditional now and I am getting crowded out with spinning wheels and I don't use her any more.
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These look nice wheels. It will be interesting to see how you get on with it. Happy :spin: :spin: :spin:
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Thanks, Sally. I'm dying to get started. I'll let you know how I get on.
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I hope you enjoy your new wheel! :spin:
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Thanks, Louise. I went to see a friend from my spinning group who loves fixing things (she used to be an engineer for Rolls Royce) and she spotted the trouble immediately. I have now had a go on the new wheel and :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:
The previous owner said he was called Vlad but I'm not so sure about that. I think he is a she and I'm just wondering about her name. I think she's saying she's Sybil.
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I've often wondered whether wheels have only one name, or a name for each owner.
My second Traveller didn't have a name at all, then I sold it, then missed it so much I bought it back, whereupon she and I decided she was called Pidge, as in Homing Pigeon. ;) However, after getting the leftie Traddy, I found I wasn't using Pidge at all, so did in the end sell her again. (To someone I know and like very much, so it didn't feel like a betrayal. lol.) Apparently she very clearly told her new owner her new name. (Can't remember what it was - something like Emily, I think.)
Anyway, Sybil the Sonata sounds wonderful - any chance of a pic? :eyelashes:
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This naming of inanimate objects is a very British (and American) thing :-J.... My spinning wheel is quite at home here without a name.... :o
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But how do you know that, Anke? :innocent: ;) :-J :D
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Mine says she is called Sybil. It's interesting that my wheels all have old fashioned names. So far: Betsy, Cynthia and now Sybil. And none of them names I particularly like.
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I love puns. All my - well, almost all my dogs, cats, cars, computers have been named using puns. The more tortuous and groan-inducing the better.
So imagine my feelings when my lovely leftie Traddie, after I'd lovingly treated, oiled and assembled her from new, when I finally started to spin on her, as that beautific smile spread across my face, the smile of one who has finally found her optimum spinning position... as all that happened, she announced that her name was Janet.
Janet. Not Letitia the Leftie, not Sinestra the Sinister, not Doppel, not Ringer, not Mirror, not even a nod to her being a Leftie nor even a Traddy. Just plain, I'm sorry but ordinary Janet. (No offence to anyone named Janet. I don't think Sally is any better a name, just I'd hoped for something a little more romantic for a spinning wheel.)
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I have 2 wheels and neither has a name
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I bet they do, Sally. They just haven't told you yet. ;D
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I will wait to see if they speak up
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I have enough trouble thinking up names for living things without trying to name inanimate objects as well. :D