just look at that crimp

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.

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.

i carded waste wool and spun it. closest to the whorl was already there. then there’s fairly nice soft waste from combs (second pic). then commercial merino top scraps (not pictured). and finally some of the worst waste from the combs (last 2 pics), full of kemp and matted bits.

merry christmas! i got a couple books and some mini wool carders.

made 59 grams of chunky 2-ply yarn on the wheel. malabrigo rios for scale in the third pic. knitted some up on 6 mm needles. was thinking of making a blanket. math from this sample says i’d need 5 kg. that’d take me a solid week to spin. as in no sleep, no eat. 😂

you can just comb your hair from your comb into some merino and spin it if you want to

this album gonna be lit

ignorant take trying to stir shit up. the 2022 buffalo tops shooting is very similar to the charleston church shooting, and in the same state as the ceo assassination so we can more fairly compare. and he was charged with terrorism. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Bu...

A.D.I.D.A.S. (all day i dream about sheep)

my never-ending darning project that got me into fiber arts: this smartwool hoodie

me, thinking nothing of it: “so i tied it up in 4 places, got it wet, and thwacked it.” my spouse:

why is this so enjoyable??

used the wheel to give this 1/3 skein yarn more twist. i use it for darning, figure it’ll hold up better this way. added less twist than i thought after wetting and thwacking it.

having sheep is like 8 different hobbies

family watching some bbc historical show: “they mix wood ash in water, and they get caustic soda to clean dishes with” me, in the next room spinning yarn: “THEY DO NOT GET CAUSTIC SODA. THAT’S SODIUM HYDROXIDE! THEY GET POTASH, POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE!”

just did some cardio (combed more matted wool)

finally got the tree decorated 🎄 (why we did it with muse playing… idk)

A great pet peeve of mine is when clothing companies refer to plastic garments as "vegan leather." Throwing a virtuous health halo around a petroleum product is wild. Next it'll be all-natural organic cyanide

I did not sufficiently think through the implications of a niddy noddy with satisfied little faces

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I wonder how jury selection for Luigi Mangione will go. Seems like "have you ever had a negative experience with a health insurance company" might exclude some people.

once again switching to twitter to DM an image to someone on here

unbutton his pants

Wrap it up folks. We was radicalized by Tim Urban.

drying scoured wool

today is a good day to be on twitter

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combed a wool lock of 4.0 grams that was very matted but virtually no vm/hair/kemp into this 2.4g top surprised i got this much this is the last of the highly questionable parts of the fleece i first took to learn with

Presented without apology: When the eel is a fellow Mixed with tasty marshmallow...

Lololol this was an assassination as performance art

So I’m not trying to dunk on this specific person, but people have such weird ideas of what emergencies will look like, and they’re largely based on idealized movies and prepper fantasies. They imagine a world where 98% of the population dies and you can pick and choose what you want.

wool scouring time. here’s what i’m cleaning, front and back. i first put it in a bucket of room temperature water, let it sit 90 minutes. water quite dirty!

raked the elm leaves in the front yard. happy sheep.

but it’s december. i don’t want to go do yard work! i want to do fiber arts! stupid nice weather.

look at this crap fiber

oh it’s me. did woodworking well before fiber. got a card from the blacksmithing group at the state fair. woman said one member is in the town i’m in and likes to teach.

“did you know that that ai website is ai?”

The new arbitrage is farming bangers from X to post on bsky

got 23 pints of strong amazing stock made and canned at our normal use of stock, this will last us years gonna need to find reasons to use it

#canning questions: i’m gonna pressure can this turkey/duck stock (with proper lids) after scraping the fat off the top. should i just leave it in the classico jars* or move to quarts? and should i mix the dark brown drippings in front with them? or save for something else?

imagine appointing people who like you and share your vision

fucked up to think about but there was two grinches on noah's ark

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"Sabrina III" Folding Travel Wheel. Bastogne Walnut. Past work. #Handspinning #Woodworking

bird scientist leaving the bird site

i made 2 gallons of stock from the mesquite smoked turkey & duck and it is unbelievably amazing. 2 T butter, bit of rosemary olive oil, 2 large onions, 1 shallot, pound of carrots, most of a celery, 4 small bay leaves, some thyme and sage from the garden, 1 T salt, and 1/2 t msg. heaven.

not sure if this is anti-consumerist or pro-theft