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Erm. Where did yesterday go?

Looks like I still need to get back into the flow - I could have sworn I did a blog post yesterday... but now there is none to be seen.

I'm still sort of catching up, not on emails too much anymore (thankfully) but on other stuff. Re-sorting things,  and also... re-stocking. I have finally gotten new silk colours for the embroidery silk, and a good chunk of today was spent on winding them off into portions. Yeah. I'm very glad there's podcasts to help with that!

Tomorrow, if things go as planned, I will be able to take photos of the new colours, and put them into the shop. Plus some other things that I am rather excited about!

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Bruce on Thursday, 20 November 2025 12:37

I was in my local camping and fishing store a few days ago, and one of the staff was using some machine to wind thread (I couldn't get too close, so I don't know if it was rod binding silk or some sort of fishing line but it was brightly coloured) off a big roll onto smaller reels. You might want to look/ask the local keen fisherfolk if they know of such machines being available locally (I'm in Australia, kangaroos, no Edelweiss.)

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I was in my local camping and fishing store a few days ago, and one of the staff was using some machine to wind thread (I couldn't get too close, so I don't know if it was rod binding silk or some sort of fishing line but it was brightly coloured) off a big roll onto smaller reels. You might want to look/ask the local keen fisherfolk if they know of such machines being available locally (I'm in Australia, kangaroos, no Edelweiss.)
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Katrin on Thursday, 20 November 2025 14:28

Thank you, Bruce! That is generally a very good idea - however in the case of my silk and gold threads, I have to spool off quite small portions, while the fishing reel equipment is usually doing longer length (at least for the lines).
I have a nice, trusty spinning wheel that actually works very well for that, equipped with the appropriate thingummies for spooling instead of spinning. There's one that I use for spooling off on the reed cores or the small wooden spools, and a second one to form the paper rolls and spool onto them. As these are rather, um, delicate actions, it's good to have a tool that I can stop at any time, and that has a little give and slip in cases of a sudden mishap in the reeling process.
But for longer amounts, these winding machines would indeed be a nice thing : )

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Thank you, Bruce! That is generally a very good idea - however in the case of my silk and gold threads, I have to spool off quite small portions, while the fishing reel equipment is usually doing longer length (at least for the lines). I have a nice, trusty spinning wheel that actually works very well for that, equipped with the appropriate thingummies for spooling instead of spinning. There's one that I use for spooling off on the reed cores or the small wooden spools, and a second one to form the paper rolls and spool onto them. As these are rather, um, delicate actions, it's good to have a tool that I can stop at any time, and that has a little give and slip in cases of a sudden mishap in the reeling process. But for longer amounts, these winding machines would indeed be a nice thing : )
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