Recent Activities

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This weekend I...

• ...received a new spindle in the mail! It's a turkish spindle, which means it has crossbars you wrap the yarn around, and when you're done, the crossbars can be removed, leaving a center-pull ball. It's a tiny thing, 4" long, with a cocobolo shaft and holly crossbars, weighs less than an ounce, spins beautifully. [pictured]
  
• ...went to a silent movie, with live accompaniment on a bona fide Wurlitzer Organ, played by one of the best theatre organists alive today! The picture was "Girl Shy" and was saturated with terrible misogynist infantilizing crap, but had hilarious entertaining moments too. The organist was Clark Wilson, absolutely brilliant. Thanks go to fellow Oliner Jerzy, who invited me in lieu of Hungarian food (which I cannot eat at all at this point, sadface). We even got to go climb inside one of the workings rooms, full of pipes of many sizes and shapes, tuned sleigh bells, drums, cymbals, all instrumented with little embedded boards and controlled by the organ out on stage. Very cool, totally pumped up my inner rube goldberg device engineer. [pictured]
  
• ...spun the first 4oz of a pound of Corriedale roving, as part of a spinning competition on ravelry. I now know at least one way of spinning longdraw that is completely awful for my rotator cuff. :( [pictured]
  
• ...made about twenty wee cardboard pots out of paper towel tubes [pictured]
  
• ...potted up the three black hollyhocks, two perennial coreopsis, and about a dozen coreopsis tinctoria. Many many of the tinctoria remain, but my back was displeased with me so I stopped early.
  
• ...did a pile of bedding laundry so that P's family has somewhere to sleep when they come for graduation
  
• ...split a braid of Merino/Silk, very carefully so both bits weighed the same, and split the waste by color for some reason. I've already started spinning one of the bits worsted and it's completely gorgeous, sortof a perfect split between the best rose garden of all time and a field of late autumn wheat. [pictured]
  

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

very pretty spindle :>

i saw the most gorjus loom, cheap! in NEVADA. god. there's no reasonable way to move it or go get it. torture :D

will have to start learning about some wheel things, in case i spot a good one.

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[chrisamaphone]

i really like these posts, even though i understand less than half of what you're doing!

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Hooray!

(...&if that is something you'd like to fix, I can totally do a spinning-and-fiber-show-and-tell sometime...)