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Oct. 29th, 2010 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeStill slogging away on my novel for Sunday, not helped by the fact that my netbook died a quiet but very firm death earlier today. I can't even get the BIOS options at start up. It's just dead. Thank god it's under warranty. This resulted in epic cranky.
Anyway. At long last, I bring you some pictures of the fiber I keep talking about spinning. Maybe tomorrow I'll take more and even remember to post them.
My wheel, niddy-noddy, chair, and mail tub o' fiber. A niddy noddy is a thing you wind fiber onto in order to make a skein; this one is 72", which means that if you loop a piece of fiber around it it makes a 72" piece of string. The wheel is a Lendrum double-treadle (you see the two pedals on the base? that's treadles) that's basically a very simple folding wheel that has all the basic parts you need to spin. It's easy to learn on, easy to grow with, and lasts for flipping ever. And then to the right is the mail tub o' fiber, which hopefully I don't need to explain. I have wool in there mostly, but I also have yak, angora rabbit, silk, bamboo, bamboo/merino blend, silk/merino blend, camel down, and probably other stuff I'm forgetting too. In many, many colors.
This is a bobbin of yarn. Pretty self explanatory.gusthemoose's mother sent along a bunch of nummy looking fiber with my wheel, so I'm spinning it up slowly but surely. This is sort of middling yarn, I'm still getting used to the wheel but I'm getting better.
And that's the yarn all spun up and skeined but unset. Next to it is some of the Shetland she sent, spun up and plied. When you spin yarn, you spin turning the wheel one way, and then when you ply it you spin two strands of yarn turning the wheel the other way. It makes the yarn stronger, tougher. It's also something I haven't done since I first learned how to spin, so I'm kind of pleased with myself.
Banana fiber. Actually 70% merino, 15% seacell (seaweed cellulose fiber), 15% banana fiber. The farm that makes it calls it Screaming Wild Monkey fiber. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it but it is bright and it is pretty and it is made from bananas, dude. Part of my goal at the fiber festival, apart from survival, was to get a bit of every kind of fiber I could to see how it spins. Hence, yak and banana and angora rabbit and camel down. (We sell camel top, which is a different kind of thing.)
Dragon Con pictures are now on my computer and will eventually get uploaded when I get a moment, probably tomorrow. Working on the novel tonight, the first chunk of which is, inevitably, the worst. And taking the longest. And I don't wanna but I have to because, well. I don't want to suck. Editing is good. I just have to actually get through it. And try and find words for things I couldn't find words for in the first place. Hopefully... something.
(Oh, our DVD player's busted too. So, on the list of things we have to replace, the DVD player, the big TV, the main living room light so it doesn't spark and catch the apartment on fire, and my netbook. Yay First World problems?)
Anyway. At long last, I bring you some pictures of the fiber I keep talking about spinning. Maybe tomorrow I'll take more and even remember to post them.
My wheel, niddy-noddy, chair, and mail tub o' fiber. A niddy noddy is a thing you wind fiber onto in order to make a skein; this one is 72", which means that if you loop a piece of fiber around it it makes a 72" piece of string. The wheel is a Lendrum double-treadle (you see the two pedals on the base? that's treadles) that's basically a very simple folding wheel that has all the basic parts you need to spin. It's easy to learn on, easy to grow with, and lasts for flipping ever. And then to the right is the mail tub o' fiber, which hopefully I don't need to explain. I have wool in there mostly, but I also have yak, angora rabbit, silk, bamboo, bamboo/merino blend, silk/merino blend, camel down, and probably other stuff I'm forgetting too. In many, many colors.
This is a bobbin of yarn. Pretty self explanatory.
gusthemoose's mother sent along a bunch of nummy looking fiber with my wheel, so I'm spinning it up slowly but surely. This is sort of middling yarn, I'm still getting used to the wheel but I'm getting better.And that's the yarn all spun up and skeined but unset. Next to it is some of the Shetland she sent, spun up and plied. When you spin yarn, you spin turning the wheel one way, and then when you ply it you spin two strands of yarn turning the wheel the other way. It makes the yarn stronger, tougher. It's also something I haven't done since I first learned how to spin, so I'm kind of pleased with myself.
Banana fiber. Actually 70% merino, 15% seacell (seaweed cellulose fiber), 15% banana fiber. The farm that makes it calls it Screaming Wild Monkey fiber. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it but it is bright and it is pretty and it is made from bananas, dude. Part of my goal at the fiber festival, apart from survival, was to get a bit of every kind of fiber I could to see how it spins. Hence, yak and banana and angora rabbit and camel down. (We sell camel top, which is a different kind of thing.)
Dragon Con pictures are now on my computer and will eventually get uploaded when I get a moment, probably tomorrow. Working on the novel tonight, the first chunk of which is, inevitably, the worst. And taking the longest. And I don't wanna but I have to because, well. I don't want to suck. Editing is good. I just have to actually get through it. And try and find words for things I couldn't find words for in the first place. Hopefully... something.
(Oh, our DVD player's busted too. So, on the list of things we have to replace, the DVD player, the big TV, the main living room light so it doesn't spark and catch the apartment on fire, and my netbook. Yay First World problems?)