My pic was taken at the Black Sheep Festival where there were tons of sheep and yarn to look at. This was the first booth I came to, and the people running the booth were the guy with the mohawk and the girl with neon hair and fishneck stockings over combat boots. It was further confirmation of the alternative and anarchist nature of making your own things. And it's awesome that punks and grannies alike come together over fibers.
Sarah, that is an awesome picture! It's totally one of the things I love about fiber culture. When I knit on the bus, old men always want to tell me about how their moms always knit for them. And a few months ago, this 30-something brown-skinned man with a thick hispanic accent sat down next to me while I was knitting, and I thought was totally gonna be all skeezy, but instead he wanted to tell about how he learned how to knit recently and he was really excited about it.
Mom, are those shaggy manes! Are you growing them on purpose, or did you just find them?
The fiber on the line in my pic has been dyed and processed into rovings (long continuous length of fibers all combed to run the same direction) so it's ready to be spun. I just got this stuff (it was processed by a big commercial facility, and then has been handed down a couple times before it got to me). The person who bought it originally (two hand-offs before me) had her fibers all stored with mothballs, so this stuff reeks. It spent a sunny day hanging on the line and most of the smell seems to have disappated. Not a bad deal for free :) There's enough here for several sets of matching socks/hats.
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Sarah, I love the contrast of clientelle at the store - a diverse environment! DeAnna, at what stage of the process is this fiber?
My pic was taken at the Black Sheep Festival where there were tons of sheep and yarn to look at. This was the first booth I came to, and the people running the booth were the guy with the mohawk and the girl with neon hair and fishneck stockings over combat boots. It was further confirmation of the alternative and anarchist nature of making your own things. And it's awesome that punks and grannies alike come together over fibers.
Sarah, that is an awesome picture! It's totally one of the things I love about fiber culture. When I knit on the bus, old men always want to tell me about how their moms always knit for them. And a few months ago, this 30-something brown-skinned man with a thick hispanic accent sat down next to me while I was knitting, and I thought was totally gonna be all skeezy, but instead he wanted to tell about how he learned how to knit recently and he was really excited about it.
Mom, are those shaggy manes! Are you growing them on purpose, or did you just find them?
The fiber on the line in my pic has been dyed and processed into rovings (long continuous length of fibers all combed to run the same direction) so it's ready to be spun. I just got this stuff (it was processed by a big commercial facility, and then has been handed down a couple times before it got to me). The person who bought it originally (two hand-offs before me) had her fibers all stored with mothballs, so this stuff reeks. It spent a sunny day hanging on the line and most of the smell seems to have disappated. Not a bad deal for free :) There's enough here for several sets of matching socks/hats.
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