so this thing still on, huh
mainly here for #fiberarts (#spinning, #weaving, #knitting, etc) and friends who left twitter.
aspiring #homesteader (garden, chickens, sheep)
i like doing things the pre-industrial ways
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ashley
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@CoolerPseudonym we got a cat recently. house has a small doggy dog. taught the cat to use it.
he brought in a few lizards to play with. once an injured bird.
and then one day a non-maimed mouse. i locked that door back up.
i just measured them taking notes of their width (shown) and length, so i can come up with a plan. never knitted a sweater!
i bought the yarn variety to figure out which sheep i wanted, and how i might want to spin. i got them ecru to learn dyeing with.
family was asked about new year’s resolutions. i said to learn to dye yarn (bought a natural kit in summer 2021) and to knit a sweater out of this sampler i have (bought late 2022) which will be dyed.
each of the 12 yarns will be a different color.
love this little spindle. spun 46 yards of ultra fine yarn with it. about 45 wraps per inch. estimate 720 yards per 50 grams.
for comparison, malabrigo lace is about 30 wpi and 470 yards. this looks comparable to a single ply of 2/18 weaving yarn, which i also measured at 45 wpi.
love this little spindle. spun 46 yards of ultra fine yarn with it. about 45 wraps per inch. estimate 720 yards per 50 grams.
for comparison, malabrigo lace is about 30 wpi and 470 yards. this looks comparable to a single ply of 2/18 weaving yarn, which i also measured at 45 wpi.
flacscan you believe that computers used to have miniture furnaces in them to smelt multi-metal alloys at specific temperatures up to 700 °C in order to modify how much they scatter light and we stopped doing it not because it's complicated but because it was too slow
@misty uhhhh wut
went to the local rural art gallery, having a fiber show right now. bought some variegated wool to spin (i’ve only spun undyed so far). the blue is super fine, the red is sorta fine.
there’s some incredibly cheap handspun yarn for sale, but it’s also incredibly coarse.
@genehack well at least they aren’t shooting guns, which is apparently a thing i saw complained about on nextdoor by someone in town west of me, and someone else on the edge of civilization here east of me