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Comment on Spinning Yarn: Dream Realized #4 by Marion

Marion — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:58:08 +0000

I arrive Boxing Day afternoon and am staying in the city. Meeting Morag in the morning of 27th to collect my new wheel, and Janette in the later morning to collect some llama fibre. I have 28th am only, before I board. lOOK for the lady with the big orange backoack, the small orange wheelie case and a spinning wheel in a shoulder carry bag…..:)

Comment on Spinning Yarn: Dream Realized #4 by ANN

ANN — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:18:18 +0000

Hi Marion, Well thats great – we will see you on board. This is our second Orion cruise – we also did Broome to Darwin which was fantastic. Now I dont spin but I do knit. We are having a week touring the south island of NZ before getting on the boat. When do you arrive in Dunedin ?

Comment on Spinning Yarn: Dream Realized #4 by Marion

Marion — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:50:48 +0000

Hi Ann, and YES! That’s me! 20 sleeps to go! very excited and very much looking forward to the whole thing. I am having another practice run tomorrow at the Chill On Ice Lounge on Russell St in Melbourne tomorrow. It is minus 10 in there and everything is ice! Just the thing on a hot day, eh? Taking my spinning wheel and going to spin some exotic fibre this time…..(samoyd, possum, rabbit….) and see how they behave in such temperatures. Do you spin? Marion

Comment on Spinning Yarn: Dream Realized #4 by ANN

ANN — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:14:58 +0000

Hi Marion, Are you on the Orion sailing 28/12 ? We are sailing to Antarctica on the Orion and really looking foreward to it.

Comment on Spinning Yarn: Dream Realized #4 by Marion

Marion — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:39:36 +0000

Thanks Ivy, It is all very exciting…..

Comment on Spinning Yarn: Dream Realized #4 by Ivy Publico

Ivy Publico — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:40:09 +0000

Hi Marion! The Martin Print staff is wishing you good luck! We are supporting you all the way and we’re very happy that you are living your dream!

Comment on Spinning Yarn: Closer and Closer #29 by Marion

Marion — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:55:47 +0000

Indeed I did! Richard, my son, kept checkingon me every 20 minutes, scaring the concentraton out of me eqach time he opened the door!
See the Article in the Melbourne Age, last Tuesday 5th October, page 7. Its a neat photo…..Marion

Comment on Spinning Yarn: Back to Beginners #27 by Marion

Marion — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:53:55 +0000

The skein idea has changed a bit, Barbara. The Mawson’s Huts Foundation has supplied for me a solour photo of Sir Douglas’s original balaclava,
so I will spin up the correct colours and do a replica, spun in Antarctica, plied on the Southern Ocean, and Knitted on the way back to NZ, and Auction that!
Much better than just a skein…..Marion

Comment on Spinning Yarn: A South Pole Journey #2 by sue lynton

sue lynton — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:48:50 +0000

Dear Marion,Good luck with your adventure,I was reading about you in the Boronia Basin news you are the lady i gave the New Zealand and England shopping bags to when i read your story i also realised that your dad taught me at boronia high at least i think it was him i remember him introducing himself as Mr Bauld and then saying yes and i am bauld hope you can confirm this as he was my favorite teacher i am now 52.

Comment on Spinning Yarn: Back to Beginners #27 by Barbara Gabogrecan

Barbara Gabogrecan — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:58:41 +0000

Are you sure people would want to buy a skein of this wool? Certainly it has some interest because of where you are going to do it – but perhaps knit something from the yarn and auction a product?