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Me hyperventilating into a bag

The bag

Once I've got my ducks in a row, I'll be contacting people to sort out specifics of your spins (likely sometime tomorrow I'll start reaching out)

Tomorrow I pick up the order from The Fiber Imp

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I've been thinking through my pricing strategy for when I go to hawk my wares to local shops and so far, this is what my formula looks like for those curious about the pricing process:

I settled on $.03/m after trying out a few other options based off of things and stuff idk I'm not a mathemdoctor or w.e

So I assume those looking at this post will have an opinion on the cost and I would love to hear it.

By my calculations, I can spin approximately 755m/150g of 75%merino/25% silk blend 2ply

If I charge $.03CAD/m then my labour cost for 755m = $22.65CAD

I pay $28.00 for 150g so my mat cost is $28CAD + $22.65CAD

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Tomorrow I pick up the order from The Fiber Imp

[disgruntled-lifeform]

I've been thinking through my pricing strategy for when I go to hawk my wares to local shops and so far, this is what my formula looks like for those curious about the pricing process:

I settled on $.03/m after trying out a few other options based off of things and stuff idk I'm not a mathemdoctor or w.e

So I assume those looking at this post will have an opinion on the cost and I would love to hear it.

By my calculations, I can spin approximately 755m/150g of 75%merino/25% silk blend 2ply

If I charge $.03CAD/m then my labour cost for 755m = $22.65CAD

I pay $28.00 for 150g so my mat cost is $28CAD + $22.65CAD

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One must imagine Sisyphus happy puppy

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

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Hypothetical question for you all:

Our finances could use a bit of a boost and I have a very specific set of skills and local access to the fibre supplier The Fiber Imp.

They are currently on holiday until August 10th and if there is enough interest I could take commissions for handspun made from their collection when they return.

How I imagine this working:

You select the wool you want spun from their shop and you hold your commission spot with a deposit in the amount of the wool cost in Canadian Dollars.

I would then use that money to buy your wool and I would spin the requested yarn and let you know the yardage and we can settle cost of labour on a case by case basis.

I want this to be affordable for you so really, the cost of labour will be more Tip What You Feel Is Right rather than a hard set number.

I would then slap on the shipping cost and we do payment via etransfer or paypal because I'm so old idk any other trustworthy ways to invoice.

I am unemployed and would be treating your order with all the love and attention that affords me; if you're a yarn nerd and want something specific, I am eager to test my mettle upon your iron.

Examples of handspun I've made from The Fiber Imp:

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Okay the WEIRDEST THING is going going down right now

So some guy in Michigan in the US has just found a letter in his grandmother’s house; it seems to be a pen pal letter from 1973ish, and it’s from a young Welsh girl. In it, she lists:

Her name, and the names of her brother (Gwynedd) and sister (Catrin)

Their ages

Where she lives in Wales (Denbigh)

Her hobbies, including horse riding and reading pony books.

So this American dude decides to take a photo, whack it on Twitter and ask the only Welsh person he knows if there’s any way to track this Welsh girl down, because you know, ALL WELSH PEOPLE KNOW EACH OTHER, OBVIOUSLY

Except

I am furious to report that it has worked

Welsh person he tags doesn’t know, but takes up the challenge. Someone reckons the Catrin might be a woman who translated a hymn book once, and checks the foreword to see that the dates and ages do seem to be about right. Someone else suddenly has a brainwave - wait, isn’t she the mother of Steff, the comedian?

My husband gets tagged, takes one look at this letter, and is like “That is 1000% my aunt.”

So now it’s 20 to midnight, Steff’s aunt has obviously not yet seen the excited message to put Twitter out of their misery, and my mother-in-law is currently on the phone gleefully telling us that when that letter was written her sister had never sat on a horse in her life before, and she’d lied to an American pen pal for clout before the internet even existed.

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"while some of my deepest held beliefs are about playing with string" <- I am curious, what is a playing-with-string belief you hold deeply?

every human culture on earth figured string out, inventing and creating tools to work with whatever material was convenient.

then, every human culture figured out fabric. woven, netted, naalbind, crocheted, knitted, sprang, whatever.

fabric is

warmth (clothes, rugs)

cool (shade and sunscreen)

the ability to travel (bags/slings to pack and carry infants and food and tools...SAILS)

shelter (tents)

safety (wound binding, injury splinting, sling support)

so, the belief is this: string and fabric connect every single human to every single other human in an unbroken web millennia in the making and heading unbroken for the horizon like fresh warp.

playing with string is connected to alladat, and I find spinning on a double treadle wheel to be one of the best activities for achieving a contemplative and meditative state, because all four of my limbs are engaged and that's enough to occupy my monkey mind and free up the thinking me.

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being the local slut is so funny 2 me every time someone tries to somehow criticize me. someone recently said to me in an obvious attempt to make me feel shame “it’s like you just think sex is some random activity to do” and i was like yeah. i’m autistic and asexual and i love fun. you are correct.

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Ok now let's see him get down

CH

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This still blows my mind

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Check out this beautiful painting I saw in a gallery the other day. I love the amazing use of color in the fall foliage, and the way it frames the solitary deer standing next to the little path.

Oops, did I say painting? I meant quilt.

The quilt is by fiber artist Nancy Hershberger (@hershberger.nancy on insta).

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Putting this back on blast because I am meeting The Fiber Imp herself on the 19th to pick up the wool order

Hmu if you want in on this round

Hypothetical question for you all:

Our finances could use a bit of a boost and I have a very specific set of skills and local access to the fibre supplier The Fiber Imp.

They are currently on holiday until August 10th and if there is enough interest I could take commissions for handspun made from their collection when they return.

How I imagine this working:

You select the wool you want spun from their shop and you hold your commission spot with a deposit in the amount of the wool cost in Canadian Dollars.

I would then use that money to buy your wool and I would spin the requested yarn and let you know the yardage and we can settle cost of labour on a case by case basis.

I want this to be affordable for you so really, the cost of labour will be more Tip What You Feel Is Right rather than a hard set number.

I would then slap on the shipping cost and we do payment via etransfer or paypal because I'm so old idk any other trustworthy ways to invoice.

I am unemployed and would be treating your order with all the love and attention that affords me; if you're a yarn nerd and want something specific, I am eager to test my mettle upon your iron.

Examples of handspun I've made from The Fiber Imp:

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This is a reminder for those who handmake Christmas presents that now is not too early to start. It may in fact be a good time to start if you have a lot to make/your craft takes a long time. You should maybe start it now, whether that's brainstorming or actually doing the crafts!

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Playing with pulled warp again. I’d like to make a sphere

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So, there's like less than one page about gauze weave in this Collingwood Bible (he passed in 2008. I don't post pirated copies of books by authors still living and collecting dollars)…and he makes it sound like a pain in the ass. “Gauze can be woven on tablets in a rather slow and cumbersome method which is worked as follows.” and then the pic is hand drawn in black and white and is just the structure and ok, whatever.

But I just got the summer issue of TWIST, and there is a color photo of open gauze diamonds on the cover and I am now obsessed.

Linda Hendrickson, ply-splitting and tablet-weaving instructor extraordinaire, did this with tablet weaving and a reed and is offering an informal zoom class on how for members in a couple weeks, and I am friggin stoked!