Last year for Christmas I asked Santa John for a drum carder. He told me to order what I wanted, and I started looking around at different models. The one I really wanted was an Ashford carder, but they are about $700 new and it's next to impossible to find them used. I was getting ready to bite the bullet and buy one new when my mom fell, and all plans for anything fell to the bottom of my attention span. Fast forward to last Friday night. As I lay in bed, unable to sleep, I decided to get onto craigslist and see if any drum carders came up. And as luck would have it, someone had just posted a drum carder on Thursday. However, it was part of a complete setup, and the seller was not splitting the lot. So, for $775, I walked away with the drum carder (Ashford, as I had wanted); an Ashford Traditional spinning wheel with spinning stool, jumbo and standard flyer and bobbins; carding combs, niddy-noddy, drop spindle, yarn winder, spinning books and magazines, and 3 garbage bags of wool. I'm like a kid in a candy store. I now have a spinning wheel for each of my two permanent houses. And with the drum carder, I hope to bring some wool here to Missouri (where I have a top-loading washer) and start prepping some roving.
The seller lives outside Springfield and was going to be gone for Thanksgiving, but she was traveling to St. Louis today, so we met in Lebanon and traded. She got a whole lot more room in her car, and and envelope with cash, and I got a lot of fiber dreams to get started on.
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