How To Accidentally Buy a Spinning Wheel

[zcat_abroad]

Step 1: Go browsing on Trademe (NZ's answer to etzy).

Step 2: Stumble into the 'Craft -> Spinning' section.

Step 3: See a lovely little up-right with a starting price of $50. (A similar one is over $500 new!)

Step 4: Think 'It'll go for over $100, but it can't hurt to put a bid in'.

Step 5: Bid $50, and resolve not to go any higher, because there's precious little room in our home. But if it goes for $50, it would be a shame not to own it.

Step 6: Forget about it.

Step 7: See that, 24 hours out from the close of the auction, you're still 'leading'.

Step 8: Gulp - where are we going to put it? Sorry - where am I going to put it? (Zcc is absolved of all involvement in this process.)

Step 9: Be unable to check the net for about 12 hours after the auction has run its course.

Step 10: Finally get online, and discover you've won!

Step 11: Ring up seller, and arrange to pick it up. Feel slightly apologetic, because the 'Buy Now' price was about $80.

Step 12: Pick up a beautiful little wheel, compact and light, and working really smoothly.

Step 13: Pick up Zcc from work, and confess to buying spinning wheel accidentally.

Comments

[untonuggan]

*drools*

[zcat_abroad]

Yes - definitely the highlight of my living room!

[versailles_rose]

Wow! How lucky!

[zcat_abroad]

I know, right? Have not regretted that 'accident' a single day. But it took me a long time to get up the courage to start using actual fleece on it...

[twistedchick]

That is a gorgeous wheel. Do all the bobbins fit? I have been helping a friend rehab her grandmother's wheel, and only one of the four bobbins that came with it will spin free without sticking.

[zcat_abroad]

I hadn't thought of that, but the three I've tried so far seem to be fine. Looking at them a bit closer now, I'm not a hundred percent sure the diameter of the spool is the same... But I'm really happy just looking at the wheel! And working with it.

[twistedchick]

Do you think you'll get different speeds from different spools? You could measure them, but unless it's a huge difference it probably won't matter much in use.