hatam_soferet recently posted about making your own female-shaped tallit katan. In the comments cotton tzitzit (and where to buy them) came up.

So after talking to hatam_soferet I plan on buying a bunch of unspun cotton and making a bunch of sets of cotton tzitzit. If you're interested, let me know (via comment or e-mail). I plan on making them all at the same time, so it ( Read more... )

Alas, the craft show that rivenwanderer and I were at yesterday did not go as well as we would have liked. We each broke even, but didn't do much better than that. (No one at the fair did particularly well this time around ( Read more... )

( Post from the knitblog, wherein I make sad roving into a happy batts. Lots of pics. )

Most people don't have a yarn desk full of yarn and hand dyed roving. Most people don't have a yarn desk period. Most people don't dye their own wool.


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Here's the yarn I've spun from the alpaca, and the scarf of awesome thus far. And the HRSFA yarn that I gave to landofnowhere(made from roving from poppyflowerfibr)

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It’s been a while, so an update seems to be a good idea.

Last week I was at Penn. I stayed with GM and AK for the non-Shabbat parts and dr_whom for Shabbat. On Thursday we visited Monge and gave her the Monge Blanket
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Today in Comparative Religious Ethics class our professor lectured on the life of Gandhi. 1 She mentioned his campaign to liberate India and his strategy of boycotting everything British. He tried to get all the Indian elites to stop buying British clothing, and encouraged people to spin their own yarn to weave their own clothes. Many elites were ( Read more... )

I should sleep. But I've been having too much fun spinning my emerald green merino wool. I'm finally using the fast flyer, which makes it go really fast! (It's easier to spin slowly when you first start, so I had been afraid to use it up until now.) Whee! Look at it go! If only I could draft more quickly ( Read more... )

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