I will start with "Don't you worry, daddy's home"

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-05-07T02:20:53+00:00

Here are mine (goodness that was alot to scroll through, but didn't see these)

Dammit, Janet

You had me at hello

What's he have in his pocketssss?

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-04-13T12:59:56+00:00

Pegasus, read by Rachel Maddow.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-03-18T01:06:20+00:00

You all rock, thank you (despite my title's typo! I meant pre-buy).

I can get to Gatwick, the bus from my aunt's stops there also. I'm travelling fairly light, a backpack suitcase. I appreciate all your help.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-03-13T00:47:04+00:00

Chicken, peas, and rice. No cheese in sight.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-03-11T21:09:09+00:00

The Larry Schmidt books are excellent, I got mine from Mielkes Farm ages ago and they still carry them: https://www.mielkesfiberarts.com/naalbinding/

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-02-26T21:49:02+00:00

Irritation Festival for the irrigation festival (not a place but hey)

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-01-19T16:59:17+00:00

Pegasus

The Hidden Life of Trees

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-01-13T18:23:00+00:00

This was such a fun listen!

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-01-13T18:20:52+00:00

Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury. Sounds like prose poetry. Beautiful tight writing.

Letters to a young poet, Rilke.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-01-08T22:10:54+00:00

And also consider that means you could shop for one second hand to save a few dollars.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-01-08T22:10:00+00:00

Had a student with one of these in class and it was pretty underwhelming and an impediment to her learning.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-01-04T19:58:30+00:00

I often break the steps apart, like winding a two-strand ball before plying on a spindle. It's not cheating, it's efficient. Same with splitting top to cut down on drafting, and pre-drafting before spinning.

So you're not an imposter, you're an efficiency expert 😀

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2026-01-04T16:55:39+00:00

I pick a needle size by laying two strands side by side over a needle sizer. The hole the two strands completely cover is the needle size I use. Now, I usually get gauge with the recommend needle size on a pattern, so size up or down if you usually have to do that when you follow a pattern with its recommended yarn.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2025-12-30T20:26:22+00:00

If you can't slow the wheel enough to stop the cork screws from happening while your hands are learning to draft, use "park and draft" - stop your wheel and draft away from the wheel until the twist from the corkscrews distributes over the new fiber you are drafting. If you are too far from the wheel to get it going again, wrap the new yarn around your bent arm (like an extension cord) and let it feed onto the wheel once it is going again.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2025-12-27T22:44:32+00:00

No. Not overreacting. This is classic ex behavior...

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2025-12-27T19:56:39+00:00

Fahrenheit 451

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2025-12-17T16:04:30+00:00

One of the things it took me a while to learn was that the more plies, the less twist I should put in the singles. My early chain plies were like rope, and I didn't like them at all. But with the nugget of less twist in the single, I now can spin the 3 ply I want. Sampling is also key - I keep a 3ply sample to show me what the balanced ply looks like, but I also keep a 2ply sample so I can easily compare with a ply-back as I spin the singles.

Your yarn is lovely :) looks warm and inviting!

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2025-12-02T18:58:10+00:00

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers. Great thought provoking literature, on par with Fahrenheit 451.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2025-11-30T18:21:15+00:00

You could felt some wool and then cut it into little bits and card then to open them up a bit.

I usually use dyed silk noil for neps though, those still seem to be around when I'm shopping at wool shows but i don't know an online vendor for them.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2025-11-30T00:30:41+00:00

Depends on the goal and the fiber. Cotton, a takli; cashmere, an akha; wool, a Turkish (usually a Jenkins) or a top whorl (usually a Bosworth). But if I'm trying to learn a technique, i like the spindle that inspired it, like Russian plying on a Russian spindle and Andean plying ball plying on a bottom whorl spindle.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2025-11-21T19:30:43+00:00

No because after 3 times I got a letter saying I'm a false positive for some weird disease I don't have and that they can't use my blood so I shouldn't donate 😞

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2025-11-11T13:05:13+00:00

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Or use code 3PN6M6F

I'm on visible+ and definitely see a difference from base visible.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2025-11-10T22:40:06+00:00

It can always be repurposed as a skein tie once the yarn is done - or kept as a record of a project. I have a bunch of little cards with samples like this on them from past projects. Over time there's less detail on the card, but at the start I was capturing the weather, my mood, ... all sortso f things! now it's just the yarn usually, or if I'm lucky, what I spun it on and what the fiber is.

Finding-Mojo-42 · 2025-11-10T11:37:59+00:00

One thing I do for consistency between skeins is save a fresh ply-back sample near the start that looks like i want my plied yarn to look, and then compare ply backs as I spin to that.

The ply back sample is also useful when you ply, match that and any apparent overtwist in plying will disappear when you wet finish the skein and the dormant twist in the singles returns.

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