DC livin'

From Raleigh to Benin to New Jersey to DC... At least there's a period on that phrase now. We're settled in DC and although we're thinking of where we'd like to be this time next year, I'm fairly confident that we'll still be working the same jobs and living a similar life to what we've established for ourselves here in DC.

The most exciting thing that has happened recently was purchasing my first spinning wheel. This was a Christmas present from Ryan, though it took a while to make it happen because apparently they don't have a lot of stores around here that stock wheels...go figure?! Well with the help of our good friend Katie, we made it out to Vienna, Virginia and were able to scope out the wheels in a store called Uniquities. There, the wonderful Caroline explained all about the Kromski Sonata that I was interested in. She broke it down for us and we decided to buy it on the spot!

It was wonderful that Katie could drive us, because originally we had thought we could walk to the store (2 miles) from the metro...but I don't think we could have actually done that... And of course, it being the DC metro area on a Saturday, there was track work, which meant walking up the escalators to go ride a bus to take to another station where we would walk this giant backpack with a wheel down the escalator. Well, it was a lot of walking.

I set the wheel up in our living room and set to spinning. I thought I would have forgotten how since I've only spun for a weekend in 2008, but I picked it right up! I actually had to switch out from the original bobbin, which had some not so great spun fiber from the class that the shop had had earlier in the day, and by the end of the night, I had almost filled my second bobbin!

Now I have a few little spinning items to search for online, then I'll be back up stairs to keep spinning!