one woman’s unhealthy obsession with string
There’s this thing that runs in November called NaNoWriMo (national novel writing month) where the point is to mush out a novel in 30 days. Although I fancy myself a writer of sorts I am just not up to that kind of pressure and would rather spend the time spinning, knitting, or blogging.
Anyway Fussy.org comes [...]
A few nights ago I was spinning a pot luck fiber mix (basically handfuls of stuff left over from other batts) that had silk, ingeo, blue and green merino, lime green something, and a mix of white merino and other wools when this little guy came for a visit. At first I thought it was [...]
What kinds of spinning urges do you get?
Out of no where I started getting a hankering to use long draw method with baby camel down. No– not top, not roving: actual baby camel down. For those of you that haven’t spun camel you won’t be that impressed until you try, the fibers are slippy and [...]
I’ve been playing around with Windows Movie Maker (comes with Windows XP who wudda thunk?) and using Youtube.com. I’m by no means an expert director (or have any presence on camera) but it’s fun. I think I’ll definitely end up investing in a better webcam and microphone after I get the bills caught up (by [...]