I honestly didn't know spinning was a thing until recently. It just never registered. And then over the past year, boom, everywhere. One of my GWC buddies saw me knitting at the meetup this year and was like, "Have you tried SPINNING?" And she was the one who sent me the spindle.
3-ply looks so incredibly daunting from the videos I've seen, but the end result looks gorgeous. And dyeing... I figure I'll start off with Kool-aid dyeing just to see if I can get the hang of it before I get into investing into serious dyes and equipment. Right now I really want to make candy-colored yarn. I don't even know what I'd do with it after.
What do we even do now that could be some kind of folk art later on? I'm genuinely curious now. There's a few things I can maybe think of, but I can't really think of them on the same level that I would soap making or knitting, which... I suppose is the point, since while people back in the day undoubtedly knew that there was an art to doing things well, I'm not sure they knew that one day it would be largely relegated to being seen as a hobby instead of a necessity.
3-ply looks so incredibly daunting from the videos I've seen, but the end result looks gorgeous. And dyeing... I figure I'll start off with Kool-aid dyeing just to see if I can get the hang of it before I get into investing into serious dyes and equipment. Right now I really want to make candy-colored yarn. I don't even know what I'd do with it after.
What do we even do now that could be some kind of folk art later on? I'm genuinely curious now. There's a few things I can maybe think of, but I can't really think of them on the same level that I would soap making or knitting, which... I suppose is the point, since while people back in the day undoubtedly knew that there was an art to doing things well, I'm not sure they knew that one day it would be largely relegated to being seen as a hobby instead of a necessity.
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