This is a photo of my home made wheel (with my son Evan)!  It is a saw horse kit, 2x4's for the legs and the base, 1x4's for the uprights, a bicycle wheel, a 10.5 knitting needle (aluminum), a small wooden spool, a piece of string for the drive band.

I wedged the spool onto the needle by shoving a piece of rubber band into the hole so it all spins as a unit.  I made paper quills to wrap around the spindle when spinning so I can remove the copp neatly.

I am getting a sticky poly drive band from http://spinningbunny.com soon (my friend Susan runs that fiber shop), hoping to end one of my little problems with the wheel--when the copp starts to get heavy the drive band slips on the spool.

Still working on getting my ISP and email all settled.  DH was supposed to order the Mac Mini today, and, after MUCH difficultly, I signed us up for verizon DSL.  Now I just have to get the thing and set it all up and transfer all my files, etc etc etc

Haven't gotten very far on the singles socks--made several attempts at the right number of stitches so they will not be baggy on my ankles nor too tight to get on over my heels.