spinning silk is a lot harder than i thought it would be, but it’s making a really nice yarn. it’s slightly uneven in places, almost thread, but i like it anyway.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
i think i’m going to run out of yarn before i’m finished with this pair of arm warmers. i find that really distressing because it means i’m going to have to buy another skein of yarn for two yards. probably not even that, probably more like one yard. i can’t believe i’m going to have [...]
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was awake all night, slept all day, am awake again. this is the yarn i’ve been spinning. i bought the fiber at the fiber studio in mpls — 4 oz, totally finished. it looks pretty good. i plied some of it with itself, and some of it with some orange merino i spun a couple [...]
Monday, December 15, 2008
fall out boy tomorrow!
i spent all day thinking about what to do with my life and watching season seven of the west wing. let me tell you, it does not sound like it was onerous, but it was, and i am exhausted.
other things that happened today include cats on the table constantly (despite [...]
Thursday, November 27, 2008
krista is housesitting and petsitting for a friend of hers who has three cats and a dog. the dog is so excitable and the cats mostly hide — except for this particular cat, who is adorable and drools on everything.
krista and i have ordered pizza. we are drinking vodka and diet coke, and watching [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
this is the purple fiber that i bought the other day, spun into yarn! i only spun about two oz of it before i realized that since i spun it so much thinner than the green yarn, two oz would be plenty to ply with the green yarn and make a nice, fluffy, fuzzy, exciting [...]
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
this morning was brunch with an old friend, and then the fiber store again. i bought a new drop spindle and some really nice fiber and have spent the afternoon spinning. i’m going to ply this together with some purple fiber, and maybe knit some arm warmers or something.
this is about an ounce of [...]
Monday, November 10, 2008
moose is really good at spinning on a drop spindle and i am jealous.
i haven’t washed my hair since thursday. every day it looks better. i am so impressed by my hair!
tonight for supper i had a really spicy black bean burger, and a chocolate malted. the chocolate malted didn’t taste like anything except gross [...]
Saturday, October 18, 2008
i met jozelle a couple of years ago when she was hired to work as an assistant at tor. one of the first things i tried to get her to watch on the television when she finally started watching television is firefly. but she refused, over and over again.
yesterday ian requested that firefly be turned [...]
this is a picture of me spinning yarn on a drop spindle that i made using a cd, some tape, and a dowel. it is fucking hard, and totally unsatisfying, and i find myself wondering if spinning using a wheel would be nicer. on one hand, i bet it would be. on the other [...]