I have had a wonderful thing happen after what I deem a minor/major disaster.
This last weekend was such brilliant sunny weather that I thought I would do some wool dyeing so I fired up errrrrr put on the electric hotplate and had a marvellous Sat creating lovely colours and hanging it all outside.
Sunday after chat I was back down there feeling even more creative so pre-soaked 2 buckets full and I had dip dyed about 3 hanks and 2 other hanks 1st of 3 dips and the put in a random lot to soak up excess dye colour - I looked over from winding some yarn and noticed that it had gone off the boil so I went over and thought it appears the element is not going soooooo I fiddled with the knob and BANG and electric green glow and then the "boom box" went off! Immediate thought [besides swear words] "I've fused the house but wait the lights are still on!" Later after my initial panic I realised I had blown the power points as the box still worked on another.
I was rather miffed as this is the 3rd time that the plate has "lost it"! First time to do Light Show though ;-)
So I went out on a trip to see if there was suitable replacement plat to be bought but the only one I saw was a solid plate and the $$ were ridiculous. I had this great idea that maybe it would be cheaper to buy a whole 2ndhand stove for downstairs but not today errrrr yesterday [sun]
Later I called the guy who had put in the new powerpoints and fixed the plate the last time! And he was right over. It was the main fuse for the p/p and he has taken the plate away.......but what about all my 1/2done dyeing and wet wool!
The dye pot was still moderately hot so I stuffed everything that had been dyed in it - I know it will be OK. I put the lid on and left it over night. Nothing has run and it's now all drying [oh did I tell you it's raining today!]
Now the good part........most of this stuff was for SETS and it's some stuff I found a way to make nicer i.e. it was all singles yarn and I either plied it or Navajo plied it and then dyed it as they were boring colours. So I took it to show the committee what I could create at the same time mentioned I couldn't bring the sparkly one as it was in the disaster! I went back to what I was doing in SETS and thought no more about it.
My chauffeur, Alison on the way home tells me to go look at hobs that use gas and the Guild is buying a dye system for the Guild which will be housed at my place!! <vbg> So on Thursday arvo I'm getting someone to take me 2 places I know have this sort of thing. The gas bottle is not a problem as many people have gas heaters and the like.
Cathy
who also persuaded the Committee [before the dye thing] that we should spend possible NZ$3000 on 1/bale of Merino for felters and spinners & have more readily available than the hot and cold supplier we now have. Therefore we will become suppliers :-)
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