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April 20, 2007
Roaming and Roving
9:30pm I'm all smarted up on knitting with roving now...its really quite groovy..and a lot like knitting with yarn, except you can't be really tough with it or you'll just pull it apart...more on that later...I'm glad that I'm home now, it feels like I left here a week ago...after class Brian and I hit the theatre for Aqua Teen Hunger Force...funny, but if you don't know the cartoon, don't bother...More info tomorrow about the class, meeting Amy Singer and Jillian Moreno from Knitty.com and some pics of my class examples...i'm tired...!
9:30am I'm gonna learn how to use roving for things other than spinning today...the team from the Knitty.com website is here in Austin and I'm taking a class with one of them this afternoon...I have plenty of roving for spinning, but I don't know how to use a drop spindle just yet (and no, I don't have a spinning wheel just yet either)...
so I figured, until I can spin, I can at least use up this roving on something else...should be fun...I'm waiting for a spinning class, tho...a drop spindle one preferrably...I watched an episode of Knitty Gritty about dyeing your own wool...that looks fun and easy too..they mentioned using Kool Aide as well...I think I could do that...
The butterflies are starting to gear up here...I saw a variety in the garden yesterday...now that I planted the passionvine, I've seen a gulf fritilary laying eggs and hanging out on the zinnias and lantana...we should be overrun with fritilaries very soon, I'm sure...
Not much else is going on here...Its been a wonderful April, not hot and humid as it is typically...we've had plenty of rain so the wildflowers are still up and going (some years they get beat down by the heat so badly they just dry up)...I watched a show on PBS last night about flowers and seeds...how they are adapted to their area...once palm on the Seychelles has seeds that weigh 45 lbs...and they are travelling 40mph when they fall off the tree to the ground...get outta the way for that...and there were coconut crabs that weigh 10lbs who crawl out and crab coconuts as they drop and can bust those things open and eat the coconut meat inside...impressive...it was a good show...I wish I could watch Planet Earth on Discovery but there's too much animal death for me...its a pretty show when they aren't showing animals being eaten, tho...
Posted by Donner at April 20, 2007 09:32 PM
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You'll love spinning.It is so therapeutic and can be done anywhere and everywhere [unlike lampwork,which fixes you] especially if you use a spindle [wheels aren't so transportable].You already have a good eye and love for colour,so dyeing your own wool is a must.I learned to spin on a wheel first and couldn't spindle spin to save my life for about 4 years,and then the duh! moment arrived and I don't go far without one now.Then of course you get hooked on collecting spindles and on it goes....[or you could learn wood turning and make your own-there's a thought]
Posted by: Creatifbeads at April 20, 2007 05:24 PM