March struggles continue. Big temperature swings, melting, snowing; it's all over the place. But we are generally warmer than last month and it feels like spring is just around the corner, and very soon (May 9th & 10th) we'll be fawning over lambs at the NH Sheep & Wool Festival where the picture above was taken a few years back.
I have another bobbin full of the Shetland and just started plying it this morning. Spinning slowed down a bit this past month... not sure how to account for that. Unsettling times, maybe.
Progress on the antique hooked rug is good. I have finished filling in the scrolls and have one corner motif to hook before filling in the background. One of the holes has been patched and hooked over; there is one more hole in the background to be patched. I think this is going to be a pretty little rug.
I was making good progress on the Hammond Multiplex typewriter, but have hit a snag. There are some type selection pins in the arbor that are frozen (3 to be exact) and in order to get them moving again, the whole mechanism needs to be taken apart. The problem is this one screw which is frozen tight (red arrow). Some past event(s) definitely impacted this side of the arbor, for the three frozen selection pins are all at this end. The arbor is held together with three screws, and two of them came out without putting up too much of a fight, but this last one is very stubborn. I've tried oil, heat, impact, Liquid Wench, all to no avail. I am determined, though, so every couple of days I try again. A little more oil, a little more heat. Maybe another dose of Liquid Wrench. One of these days, hopefully.
Quilting the appliqued top has not started yet. I decided it was best to focus on the rug and get that completed first.
Leather for reconstructing the melodion's exhauster has arrived so I can get down to business on that now. I also ordered a kit, containing leathers for the roller organ exhausters, so I can rebuild those as well.
Here's looking forward to warmer weather!
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