…and a wheel followed me home.
This one is a double treadle Roadbug by Merlin Tree. Yes I was still looking for a perfect wheel for the boat. The Journey Wheel is good and small but a tad heavy. I wanted something small with two treadles (thanks to the now injured left foot a single treadle isn’t the happiest thing for me on a small wheel). My first stop after hitting the fairgrounds at Cummington was Dave’s booth where I tried out the DT version and was happily spinning along for a while. No surprise that I bought it. I did leave a wheel wit Dave though. I gave him that mismatched CPW that I got in February. That thing had a drive wheel too big for the table, a frankenwheel if you will. I gave it to him for parts. I’m glad to be rid of it.
Anyway, now I have a small light wheel for the boat and got to use it there this weekend. Worked out nicely even if I had to carry it from way across the marina parking lot. Wouldn’t have survived carrying the journey wheel that far. The yarn you see draped on the bag is the first skein off the bug. It is 4oz of BFL fro Spunky that I also got at the festival. It is approximately 310 yds. Not my finest of spinning but will do as sock yarn or maybe a hat for the kids. I should probably get a head start on that this year and not wait until October 
Time to head to the train..
Craft on!
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5 responses so far ↓
1 dorre // Jun 3, 2010 at 8:47 am
ooh a new friend came home
love that spunky
2 Kelli // Jun 3, 2010 at 6:10 pm
You should come to festivals with a warning sign!
What a cute wheel! Can you take a picture such that we can see the whole thing? Does he/she have a name? ~ksp
3 Donna // Jun 4, 2010 at 8:45 am
I had a HitchHiker Wheel that was really portable. The orifice was too low for me so I sold it. I do miss the portability though!
Enjoy your new purchase. We went to the festival on Saturday and had fun. It’s a nice size one with a decent amount of vendors.
4 JessaLu // Jun 5, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Yarn already? Ossum!
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5 Ina // Jun 9, 2010 at 1:02 pm
OK, mind completely blown by the scale of the photo. Wheel small enough to fit in boat tote, dwarfed by skein of yarn. Does not compute… does not compute! We can haz more photos, please?