I've been surfing spinning and knitting desing sites...

[msfledermaus]

..I *really* need to update my site, don't I? I've got new pictures and everything. I'll have to bug Ben the Neighbor in the future and see if we can come up with something...

Meanwhile, I dropped some dinero on a new flywheel for the spinning wheel to see if that helps some of my trouble, some new bobbins, and a niddy-noddy. (A Niddy Noddy is a great name for a funky stick-thing to measure out the stuff you just spun while you wind it into a tidy skein. Heh, I just like to say it. Niddy-Noddy!!! NIDDY NODDY!!!) I also bought some pretty colored mohair to ply with some black merino for effect. (The spinning wheel can thwart me all she likes, but I can still whip out yarn with the drop spindle until we finally understand each ohther:PPPP)

*siiiiigh* If someone had told me 4 years ago I'd be doing weird things with sheep wool instead of painting, I'd have pointed and laughed. *shakes head sadly*
I'm a weird, weird girl...but at least I'm a warm weird girl.

And someone found a great link to inspire me:
Fishfishknits.com....It's the cutest damn thing I've ever seen...

Comments

[specificocean.livejournal.com]

hm, I think cars when I hear the word flywheel....but I guess spinning wheels would need them too, huh?

wool comes from SHEEP!!!! sheep....i had my fill of raising them on the farm when i was a kid.

[ciaweth.livejournal.com]

I love Fishfish :) I always stare at that site in the winter. I hate wearing hats, but hers are so tempting!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

We thought of you today. I was looking through a seed catalog, and found cotton seeds. Cyn wondered if we could grow it and then give it to you to spin into yarn. :-)

[bellemarlowe.livejournal.com]

through a strange online search for Gir slippers i came across your journal. if you really do happen to have a pair, i;d LOVE to know how and where you got them.

many thanks!!!

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

She's on LJ, too!!! under--suprise--fishfishknits:)

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Awwww....

Hey, how was your trip? I know your luggage got screwed up and you have some fabu peectures, but I wanna hear it from the Freekee's mouth:)

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Hello there!

Hmmm...I do have a pair of GIR slippers; which I bought a while back at Hot Topic. (I know they're online,too if you don't have a store close to you.)
Ah, Hot Topic, the place to go for all your squishy-foam-rubber gargoyle needs:)

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

heh....I bet that must have been an experience...

lately I've been spinning Llama wool instead of sheepies....they're really sweet creatures!

[specificocean.livejournal.com]

yeah, sheep are shrewd, but dumb.....

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I sure hope I get a chance to post before I forget it all. So busy!

Except for the trip home, it was great!