Sometime last week, my last acquisition from the NY Sheep and Wool festival showed up via UPS. Here it is! A Patrick Green triple picker!! (And in the background you can see my other stepchild, a Strauch carder) It has about 640 sharp points and boy, are they sharp! It actually comes with a padlock so you can lock it up so people who don't know what it is or how to use it won't hurt themselves. Sounds great, right? Well, I really must be what most people would say, a
special kind of stupid. I really hate to admit it, but the truth hurts sometimes.
Here's a picture of what I managed to do to myself within, oh, an hour of getting this bad boy all set up and ready to go:
It's kind of hard to see in this picture, but just below my first knuckle you'll see a red scar line going up from right to left. Now, I know, you're thinking, I was just careless and what do you expect with 640 sharped points? Well, you don't know how I managed to get this boo-boo. I got it, drum roll please, while putting the padlock back on the picker to lock it so no one would get hurt. I don't know how I managed to hurt myself trying to
put the lock back on the picker and I'd really rather not try to recreate that just to see. I'll just take it as my stupidity and call it even!
The first picture is the baby alpaca in blanket form and the bottom is my Spongebob yarn!! It's not yellow, but it is the color of his pants!! Next up: VERMONT!!!! Saturday is Completion Day!! I'll be heading up to meet Tom Golding and finally see my custom wheel!!! I wanted it to be a surprise so I haven't seen hide nor hair of the wheel, but I'm sure it will be beautiful!! Pictures will be posted!! Oh, and an added bonus, the King Arthur Bakery Store is just an hour away from the Goldings, so added bonus!! I LOVE Vermont!!!!
