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spin me right round
Jan. 16th, 2023 10:53 amI had to take an enforced several-day break from my knitting last week due to terminal over-thirty disease (sat funny and hurt my arm) but picked up my spinning again to compensate, because at least the repetitive strain movements were in different directions which counts as stretching probably???
anyway, I made this all by myself. I still don't know all the technical terms or how-tos, but I can effectively turn fluff into spun and plied yarn now which is pretty rad. About 40 metres from an ounce of roving, corriedale I picked up with my spindles at Rhinebeck in NY. I've immediately moved on to spinning with my most precious roving bought at the same festival, because fuck it, life is short and I refuse to hoard joys for later.
Also for joy, sometimes self-care is spending your saturday having four calls with nine friends in seven timezones, because that's the only way to make a social life work when you live halfway across the globe from them in two different directions. Worth the early start and late late finish, do continue to wish I lived close enough on any front to just hang out unplanned with my friends but we take what we can get. I'm certainly happier now than I was when I wasn't talking to anybody, so an improvement is an improvement.
Less improving was having to listen to the old white middle class brits in my art class talk about every trans person (no that was not any of the terms they used!!!) they'd ever seen for no reason other that to assure each other they're awful for existing. I am bad at confrontation. I like painting. the rage-shakes were mostly gone by the time I got through my post-class coffee and cake and my throwing teacher knows my new name so I at least have hopes for the clay studio next week.
I have my new walkman knock-off, and a trickle of secondhand tapes coming through, but I so very look forward to having an excuse to root around in the tables of stuff at the local markets. no I haven't figured out where I'm going to keep any of them. but at least I have an account on the pretentious music collecting site now (discogs) to happily haunt for reasonably priced judas priest tapes
anyway, I made this all by myself. I still don't know all the technical terms or how-tos, but I can effectively turn fluff into spun and plied yarn now which is pretty rad. About 40 metres from an ounce of roving, corriedale I picked up with my spindles at Rhinebeck in NY. I've immediately moved on to spinning with my most precious roving bought at the same festival, because fuck it, life is short and I refuse to hoard joys for later.
Also for joy, sometimes self-care is spending your saturday having four calls with nine friends in seven timezones, because that's the only way to make a social life work when you live halfway across the globe from them in two different directions. Worth the early start and late late finish, do continue to wish I lived close enough on any front to just hang out unplanned with my friends but we take what we can get. I'm certainly happier now than I was when I wasn't talking to anybody, so an improvement is an improvement.
Less improving was having to listen to the old white middle class brits in my art class talk about every trans person (no that was not any of the terms they used!!!) they'd ever seen for no reason other that to assure each other they're awful for existing. I am bad at confrontation. I like painting. the rage-shakes were mostly gone by the time I got through my post-class coffee and cake and my throwing teacher knows my new name so I at least have hopes for the clay studio next week.
I have my new walkman knock-off, and a trickle of secondhand tapes coming through, but I so very look forward to having an excuse to root around in the tables of stuff at the local markets. no I haven't figured out where I'm going to keep any of them. but at least I have an account on the pretentious music collecting site now (discogs) to happily haunt for reasonably priced judas priest tapes
