Anxious for Wheel

[xantha]

5:39 A.M.......ALEXANDRIA, VA, US ....... OUT FOR DELIVERY

 

Aiiiiiiii! Why do I have to work today!!

 

Normally I'd be a little bummed that DH is going out of town on business for a couple of days, but not this time (he leaves today)!

[Julie]

So I can guess what will be featured on your blog today? I can't wait to see!

[HollyM]

Is it there yet??? Huh huh huh??????

 

Holly

[xantha]

hee!

 

this is me reloading the ups tracking page at work over and over and over again!

 

[i know my UPS guy usually shows up at the house around 1230, so I'm going home for lunch today and I will wait ... ]

[threeolivemartini]

hahhaah you sound like me !!

[Woven N Spun]

hmmmm silence from Jess....me thinks her wheel arrived and we shall not see her for awhile. Which wheel did you finally get Jess?

[HollyM]

Well???????????????

 

Holly

[xantha]

Yeah, it finally came. I was stalking the UPS guy and then he snuck up onto my steps and just left it while I was home for lunch!

 

I ended up buying the Lendrum DT, but I got the package that also comes with the fast flyer (but not the super duper insanely fast flyer-- that may be a future upgrade) and the plying head. The Woolery had a really good deal and this was the wheel I liked best at MD S+W.

 

Holly had the same experience at MD S+W and ended up with the same wheel (only she bought it at S+W). Funny!

 

I'm still having some minor problems right now -- I had no problems spinning decently on this wheel at s+w but I'm having some problems currently, so I'm messing with some adjusments and I hope to have something at least semi-decent by the end of the night.

[HollyM]

Yayyy! I'm glad she's there safely!

 

What kind of issues are you having? I ended up changing the rubber band on my tension string. The band that was there was too long for me and I couldn't turn the tension up as much as I wanted to without the rubber band getting stuck on the bobbin. I just used a shorter rubber band. And may I say, how much I love that it is just a rubber band, not some obscure part that you'd have to special order

 

Holly

[xantha]

Ahh, much better!

 

I messed with the brake tension for forever before I got it to spin quite right. I suspect I will be changing that rubber band + string fairly soon.

 

Once I got it though, it was all good!

 

[except for the sliding around on the carpet, I'll either move it upstairs to the hardwoods or set up a gripper mat for it.]

 

Ohhh fun.

[Woven N Spun]

I have a special mat that I use for my wheel. I don't use it in the living room, but for outside when we go camping if I am just out on the concrete. Our old house had hardwood floors and I used it there too.

[xantha]

Kimberly, what's your mat like? Is it like a welcome mat but with extra gripping stuff?

 

I was so tempted to *coughcough* call in sick today, but I managed to make it in to work.