Something else I never knew
In spite of the fact that I think I know everything, clearly, there’s a lot out there I’m clueless about.
In spite of the fact that I think I know everything, clearly, there’s a lot out there I’m clueless about.
I was in my local sewing/crafts store the other day getting a picture matted. While waiting, I wandered around. I don’t sew or do a lot of crafty things that aren’t woodworking, so there was nothing I was specifically looking for and was just killing time. Then, lo and behold, I stumbled on these:
What in the wide, wide world of sports was going on here – lathe-turned bowls? In the sewing section? Since this was a store for people who make their own things, why were there finished bowls here? So, I snapped a photo, thinking there was a blog here somewhere.
But when I showed the photo to Sally, she didn’t blink an eye. “Those are yarn bowls,” she informed me. Yarn bowls – including lathe-turned ones – have apparently been around forever, flying under my know-it-all radar. You put a ball of yarn in one and feed the string out through one of those cutout swirl things. Huh, I’ll be darned.
A.J. Hamler is the former editor of Woodshop News and Woodcraft Magazine. He's currently a freelance woodworking writer/editor, which is another way of stating self-employed. When he's not writing or in the shop, he enjoys science fiction, gourmet cooking and Civil War reenacting, but not at the same time.