Nails. Lots of nails.

Today was spent doing re-stocking actions - among them: fixing bands to both distaff sticks and embroidery frames. As the distaffs in question were hand distaffs, though, the first step was to saw the dowels to the correct length and then round off both ends of each dowel.



The distaffs were, after that, rather quick to finish in comparison to the embroidery frames, which have a lot more of the small copper nails holding the bands in place. And of course these nails need to sit at the proper place, and they have to go into pre-made holes so they will go in properly and not bend instead... and no, don't ask me how many bent nails it took me to finally learn that!

The first few nails are always a bit extra exciting, and fun to hammer in, but it does get a little boring after a while. Even worse, the sound of hammering makes it hard to listen to podcasts while working, though otherwise, this would be the perfect mindless job to enjoy some nice stories or other interesting things to listen to.

The restocking action was rounded off by refilling my spindle whorl boxes and portioning off wool for spinning. So it was a productive day, and I even found time to spend a few minutes outside pruning our willow fence - it's that time of the year again.