Weaver's can't resist the lure of new yarn, no matter how much yarn we have in our stash, it's never enough. What we have may not be the right color, the right size, or have the right qualities for the project in mind. Sometimes it's the fact that it is on sale, even though we don't have a clue what we will do with it. My yarn stash had expanded to the point it was falling off the shelves and I needed a new system. A yarn tree seemed to be a good solution.
At the same time, I was offered a couple of spinner racks from my dear friends at the local independent bookstore. They were replacing racks and were going to throw out these racks, one was an old card rack and the other held T-shirts. The T-shirt rack already had oval slots on the sides and all that we needed to do was add 6" metal pegboard hooks to hold the cones. The yarn tree holds 90 cones, and it's already full.
The other spinner rack was built on a base with great casters and a smooth spinning action, perfect to turn into a warping mill. We removed the plastic slides that held the cards from the base. DH set to work and put together this mill, it has a 2 yard circumference and has adjustable sliding pegs on 3 sides, which should give maximum flexibility in measuring out warps.
Love those racks!
ReplyDeleteYou just love the fact that those racks are out of your store.
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