Just left of normal

I am so excited i just thought i'd throw in this little blurb, i talked sammy into buying me some roving off etsy (after a little coercion and bargaining)it's a lovely mix of pastels called Party Mints which it does look exactly like. I pray that it will be beautiful to work with - at least more so than the first. Here is a picture of my humble little spindle.

I had dad drill the whole in the center of the wood which actually worked pretty well. I've had to glue the whorl 3 times though because my dad would see it on the table and fiddle with it. He'd ask if it was working out or what it was for while he'd just pop the whorl loose like it wasn't even glued and slide it up to the hook or down the other end. Then he'd try to spin the whorl on the dowel and make a comment about it not spinning very well, then i'd tell him the whole thing spins at once not just the whorl. Then he'd say "oh, well it slides around an awful lot for that" *smacks forehead* The other two times i wasn't present when he moved the whorl but i know he did because aside from it being loose it was in a different spot than i put it in.

Alright i am off to work on my Ridged Lace Cowel (a pattern from Elinor Brown found here) - which is actually the real reason i came up here to the computer because the pattern was just not coming out like the picture and i had to find out what was going on. I found the exact issue on her ravelry page "Pattern was corrected 6/3/08 to remove a stray YO. New stitch pattern repeat should read ”yo, k1, yo, k2, sl1, k2tog, psso, k2”" I was ending up with all these extra stitches and not enough pattern repeat and then it just looked really wonky. Now it should be better.

P.S. If you have any comments on my drop spindle, maybe i should make the whorl smaller or something... let me know please and thank you :D