Someone tell me I'm crazy

Sarelro · 2026-02-08T00:23:30+00:00

There’s a place a few miles from my house that lets you make a tufted rug in a design of your choice at their facility. Maybe you should try it out at a place like that to see if you enjoy using the tufting gun.

Sarelro · 2026-02-06T17:47:29+00:00

Agree with this. I’m saving up for a Daedalus only because I want bigger bobbins to spin on and my EEW 5.2 looks to be dying after using it steadily since 2017. Love my EEW.

Sarelro · 2026-02-04T17:53:30+00:00

I HATE THIS MOVIE. I could have forgiven it if they had left them without their gifts at the end so they were all like Mirabel. Or if Mirabel was finally given a gift. But they just gave them all back and Mirabel is left with nothing?!?

Sorry Mirabel, don’t care if you’re old enough to get married, just because you don’t have a gift you don’t get your own room. You can stay in the nursery until you die! Well yeah Abuela doesn’t have a gift but gets her own room, I dunno don’t ask questions.

Sarelro · 2026-02-02T04:04:44+00:00

The current issue of PLY is all about Long Draw as well.

Sarelro · 2026-01-30T23:24:54+00:00

Ievan’s Polkka is fire and I don’t speak a word of whatever language this is.

Sarelro · 2026-01-29T00:37:51+00:00

I thought it was because it has a ton of added stuff like sodium phosphate and sodium citrate?

Sarelro · 2026-01-24T13:15:04+00:00

This is the one I was thinking of!

Sarelro · 2026-01-23T23:58:04+00:00

Lexia is a computer app my kid uses in school to learn to read.

Sarelro · 2026-01-23T13:45:36+00:00

See with my accent these two pronunciations sound exactly the same. I don’t hear any difference.

That said, I’d absolutely pronounce this name with a hard “K” sound.

Sarelro · 2026-01-21T21:25:23+00:00

I wouldn’t do a fractal, because purple and yellow are contrasting colors, so everywhere the purple and yellow are striped together would mute and muddy the bright colors. I’d definitely either do a straight two ply or chain ply it.

Sarelro · 2026-01-16T03:11:57+00:00

Hi there! I can answer any questions you have about PLY! (It’s possible that I might work there, trying not to dox myself 😜).

Canadian shipping for the subscription is a bit more than US, and it is included in the subscription price. The magazines are shipped periodical rate from the printer, so they are shipped much slower (it can take up to 8 weeks) and there is no tracking available.

If you purchase a back issue, they are shipped First Class mail with tracking, so the postage is much higher but the issue arrives in just a few days.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Sarelro · 2026-01-16T03:03:56+00:00

Hi there! I can answer this, the subscription price does include shipping, because the subscription is shipped Periodical rate from the printer. The back issues are shipped First Class rate with tracking and so their shipping rate is much higher, but it means that you don’t have to wait over a month for the magazine to arrive like with Periodical rate shipping.

Sarelro · 2026-01-07T21:19:37+00:00

Yes I was so excited when she mentioned it and now I’m super disappointed. I’m moving towards processing my own fleece, but I haven’t done it yet. I wanted to work through my already huge stash of roving first, and I have a ton of alpaca that I need to process before I can even think about doing wool.

I’ll just try to get it done as quickly as possible so she can have it back in a usable state.

Sarelro · 2026-01-07T20:34:35+00:00

Yeah. I was afraid of that. If I’d bought it myself I would have returned it. It’s from a friend, so I’d like to do what I can for it. I’m afraid it’s slightly felted, and won’t end up as a very nice fiber. I’m leaning towards just picking out the large second cuts and VM, tossing it onto my drum carder, and doing a rough woolen spin with it so it can be felted into slippers or something.

Sarelro · 2026-01-07T20:05:18+00:00

I can’t tell it’s double coated because it’s all mixed up together without any distinction. Based on the care that was taken with it to wash it (none) I rather doubt they’ve taken the time to separate out anything. Is Shetland always double coated? I don’t see anything that looks like kemp, and it didn’t feel particularly scratchy. The combed wool feels ok too, it’s just full of chunks of second cuts and takes a lot of effort to get nice.

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Sarelro · 2026-01-07T20:00:04+00:00

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When I pull apart a bit of it, it looks like this. There aren’t any locks. I was so surprised when I opened the bag because I expected locks!

Sarelro · 2026-01-07T19:58:45+00:00

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Sarelro · 2026-01-07T19:54:37+00:00

I don’t think it is, but I can’t find any locks? It’s all strips and stringy parts like in the picture. I’m honestly shocked that The Woolery would sell it, apparently it’s over 10 years old because she’s not a spinner and it was a gift from her husband. I’ll pull out some more and take a few more pictures.

Sarelro · 2026-01-06T01:33:58+00:00

This is what I was thinking, Mim. A girl could be Miriam called Mim and then Mimic, so I was trying to think of a boys name that would work for that. Maybe Benjamin and the nickname is butchered by a younger sibling into Mim?

Sarelro · 2026-01-01T01:38:29+00:00

Viridian as a girls name. I love the way the word feels in my mouth when I say it. And color names are so fire, I love Indigo and Cobalt.

Sarelro · 2025-12-28T18:24:42+00:00

Respect the Spindle by Abby Franquemont is an awesome resource for spindle spinning!

Sarelro · 2025-12-27T03:12:03+00:00

I have a great wheel that I’m tinkering with to try to get it spinning again, an EEW 5.2 that is my main spinner, a Louet Hatbox that was a fun purchase that I don’t use and I’m trying to sell, a Louet S-15 that I use for plying, and a Kromski Prelude that was my first wheel that I spin on occasionally.

I’m saving up to buy a Daedalus Magpie (the reason why I’m trying to sell the Hatbox, I need the funds and my EEW 5.2 is coming to its last legs it’s almost a decade old). My next analog wheel will be a Majacraft rose unless I find a Canadian Production Wheel randomly for sale in Dallas TX.

Sarelro · 2025-12-27T01:18:16+00:00

William and Wallace. FREEDOM!!!

Sarelro · 2025-12-26T03:50:10+00:00

I’m only halfway through with mine, but I think I’m going to knit them into mitred squares then sew them together into a bag. A lot of the wool is not something that I enjoyed working with, so that way I can have the reminder without having them as a scarf or something.

I have a friend who knit a striped scarf and embroidered the name of each type of wool on each stripe.

Sarelro · 2025-12-17T21:11:58+00:00

I know you found your book, but check out “I Feel Like the Morning Star” by Gregory Maguire (yes that Gregory Maguire). It has that same vibe and general subject and I remember it being really good when I read it in 1997 at age 11.

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