[Ansteorra-Textiles] Check - in

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Hi Gail,
 
  My name is Joellen and have been spinning about three years or so. I was hooked the moment I tried it. While my stash of fleeces and finished yarns stacked all over the bed room drives him crazy, he does tell other people what I do with a note of pride when he thinks I can't hear.
 
  I started doing this as an outcropping of genealogical research of all things. I wanted to know why people had so few change of outfits unlike we do today. In my head I knew the answer but, being the person I am, I wanted a hands-on experience. It didn't take long for me to get the answer I was looking for and by then I was obsessed with fiber. I have been know to spin the cotton from medicine bottles if I am out of wool!
 
  As I accumulated skiens, I realized there was no way I could ever crochet all the yarn I'd made. So now I put some of it on eBay, make gifts of it to my crochet and knitting friends, spin some of it as lace-weight and tight for those who enjoy tablet weaving, and even have a shop near-by who takes my offerings on consignment. I even left and information card with the local library. I've not had anyone want yarn from that source, but, I have taught four other people including a man how to spin.
 
  Currently I am planning to make a couple of costumes, one medieval and one early american. As a request from a pre-kindergarten and first grade teacher to do a demonstration on the different kinds of wool and how the fiber was spun. I am looking forward to this. Who knows ? There might be one or two out there who want to try it!
 
Love to talk about fiber!
 
Joellen
> From: gailh at fanninelectric.com> To: ansteorra-textiles at lists.ansteorra.org> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:53:33 -0600> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-Textiles] Check - in> > knit it, crochet it, weave it......first, you have to learn to spin it,> though> > galen> > some time in the future, I can learn to spin...............> > -----Original Message-----> From: ansteorra-textiles-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org> [mailto:ansteorra-textiles-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of> nweders at mail.utexas.edu> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:36 AM> To: ansteorra-textiles at ansteorra.org> Subject: [Ansteorra-Textiles] Check - in> > > I realised it's been fairly quiet lately so I thought I'd update everyone> on what I've been doing.> > I would love to say a lot but currently I'm taking a printmaking course in> college and it's taking up a lot of my time.> > I have been washing fleeces. I finished cleaning a beautiful rusty brown> shetland fleece, I've had for a while. And I have to say I have a funny> story on myself. I was spinning a sample of this fiber that I thought I'd> washed - it was a really nice golden brown - with reddish highlights. I> thought what a great color - I won't have to dye it and it looks so> nice. After I finished my sample batch I stuck in in the bathtub to wash> it (and set the twist)..... well, sadly the beautiful color was colorant> from the sand that was in the fiber and it's a very nice slightly ivory> white. No VM but lots of sand and dust.> > I generally do a light wash to get out dirt and large VM but this was so> clean I guess I thought I had already done that with the fiber.> > This winter I plan on doing more spinning.> > My question is what does everyone do with the fiber that one spins?> > as always,> > Clare> > > _______________________________________________> Ansteorra-textiles mailing list> Ansteorra-textiles at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-textiles-ansteorra.org> > _______________________________________________> Ansteorra-textiles mailing list> Ansteorra-textiles at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-textiles-ansteorra.org
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