TODAY was a big day – I got motorized in more ways than one!
First came my new wheels, courtesy of the local health care center…
Nøvs and I went for a long tour in the lovely autumn sunshine!
It is a completely new feeling to be independant – it’s so good I can’t describe it!
But there was more – when we came back the courier was there delivering a parcel from UK – it is the motor for my knitting machines, that I have searched for so long, that finally arrived, safe and sound too! Well done Fed-ex, for delivering within 24 hours across the channel!
We have now unpacked the beast, but will have to wait mounting it – I need to replace the machines in the workshop to make room for it. I’ll report on that later!
I have this thing about motorizing my equipment – sometimes because I don’t have the physics to use them as they are, sometimes it is just to make it more effiecient.
May I present the first prototype of the ultimate electric spinner:
Version 1.01 is on the make, destined for future production – and no, I don’t take pre-orders!
It will be presented here, when ready, I expect it will take another year, at least.
The point of this spinner is, that it has to be convenient for all sorts of fibers/ thicknesses of yarn – so you can spin superfine angora as well as relatively chunky wool, and NOT experience the trouble of the spinner yanking the fiber from your hands…
The system is complete, now we need to find/make the parts seen from an economic/production point of wiew….
Next on the list is my drum carder, by the way…
News from the rabbits: so far we have had no sign of the rabbit plague that is spreading in DK at the moment – my garden is completely isolated, no visitors allowed in any circomstances!
The other day I was shearing Frankie (he got blue eyes), my fine Satin angora male – and for the first time I succeded getting the sheen of the fibers on the photo:
He is big and strong, so I look forward to next years breeding.
The end result of this years litters of satin/angora crossbreds are three white ones, one very good femal and to quite good males – they all have the properties I aimed for, satin fur but angora size and yield, or at least getting there.
I have decided to keep to the whites, as the sheen shows better here.
So if anyone out there has a white satin angora mail and/or female, I will need fresh blood one day…
The rest of the litters? well, for the crossbreds, they just died – so I believe the survivors has the needed vitality to carry on…..
The Danish angoras went well, I sold quite a few, and the rest is in the freezer or at least waiting to go – I have 5 black males that I took aside for production, but I have had to realize that we have too many to care for during winter, carrying water etc., so have to give up some.
If any of you would like one, please do say! They are easy to tame and very friendly…
And yes, we do eat our bunnies! our animals are here for production, we like to eat meat from animals that has had a good life. Rabbit meat is lean and low on kolesterol, taste like turkey but has a much finer fiber strukture.
The trick to this is not giving them names – only the ones we will keep are named!
