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image title Hi- im looking for some feed-back here. I know i made a mistake. im not an inexperienced kid, and i’ll never do anything ;like this again, but im in a position i cannot afford to resolve and don’t have the resources to remedy. I’m really upset amnd its having a negative impact on my health
A couple of months ago, l made the mistake of offering to lend a woman i have known as a “casual friendly acquaintance” for more than a year, one of my wheels. She’s someone i met at a local fiber studio, and have enj oyed comparing notes and conversing with over thw last year or 2. In the past, i have given her enough nice quality natural fiber yarn from my stash to complete a couple of shawls, and when she started to look for a better spinning wheel than the “mystery primitive” castle wheel she brought from the UK,, and the Wee Peggie that she picked up for “nothing”, and failed to appreciate either as a nice little wheel, or as a collector’s item, i decided that i’d offer to help her find a wheel that would make her happy. I find good deals on great wheels all the time. As such, i asked her if she wanted me to pass along some of the better priced listings, and she said yes. However, no matter what i sent her, something wasn’t good enough and she wasn’t interested. However, i kept thinking that she just needed to find the right wheel and hadn’t found it yet, so i sent her a wide variety of wheels and wheel types, some better deals than others, but all well priced for the market at the moment. I never offered to sell her a wheel, though i brought several wheels to the monthly “studio spin-in” which i planned to overhaul and sell. I offered to let anyone spin on them just to know what that would be like, and i’ve disassembled and cleaned a couple of Louets there so that people could see how easy that is.However, she was never interested in the wheels i pointed out for her. Either it wasnt a maker she recognized as being upscale, wasn’t in her price range, it was sold by the time she checked it out, or she didn’t have enough to buy it.
Eventually it became clear that no matter how open to suggestion she said she was, she only wanted whatever wheel everyone else in the fiber studio admired/ wanted that month. for instance, Once the Schacht matchless contingent had decided that it had become “overpriced”, her preference settled on wheels owned by 2 people she admired. So she is now looking for either a Kromski Minstrel or an Ashford Traveller, neither of which can be found for what she wants to pay.
At that point I stopped earmarking any wheels for her,as she turned up her nose at an S10 like new, with Woolee Winder and 5 bobbins for $200 , an S76 for $400 with a mind-boggling assortment of “extras”, including 2 flyers, 10 bobbins and an array of kates, She’d also turned up her nose at a Jensen Tina for $500, which i’d have given my eye teeth for. She never heard of it, thought it was just an “imitation traveller”. but she was forever wingeing about not havin g a decent wheel to spin on, and i thought that i could help her in a small way, by lending her a really nice wheel to use for a while.
