So I recently learned how to spin yarn, and I’m enjoying it immensely. But yesterday I was at the craft store before work, and I saw this:
And I thought “that looks enough like roving that I bet I could spin it”, so I got it, knowing full well that my one spindle is already engaged in spinning some wool.
Because I also thought “people were spinning fluff into string for thousands of years before they were able to just buy a new spindle, it can’t be that hard to make one”.
Turns out, it’s not.
Is this going to be a good spindle? Almost certainly not, and I can’t wait to see how much it sucks and in what ways. But it should at least be a functional spindle, and that’s all I really need for this.
I’m reblogging this just for the kitty. They look like a good kitty. What’s their name?
His name is Joseph Joestar, “JoJo” to his friends!
well im reblogging it for the handmade spindle and yarn. i love diy thats fueled by “well in the past they didnt just Buy new stuff, they Made it. it cant be That hard to make something functional!” please show us how its going so far?
Not because it’s a bad fiber (which it is), but because it actually doesn’t spin that badly. Even with my unpracticed hands, on my hastily-made and very unbalanced spindle, I’m able to get it to twist into a consistent thread.
I think some part of me wanted this project to be a laughable failure, and the fact that it’s actually succeeding is both frustrating and satisfying.
the transition from people needing each other to wanting each other is literally one of my greatest weaknesses that shit makes me want to walk into the sea and sit on the ocean floor for a thousand years
like. characters whose entire self worth is based on how useful they can be to others, who think that they’re going to be abandoned as soon as they’re no longer necessary, being told by someone that they want them to stay and realizing that they have value to people in and of themselves and not just for what they can do for them will never fail to completely unmake me. like on a molecular level.
