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- Julie
- Pennsylvania, United States
- I'm currently a stay at home mother, freelance writing on my off time, wondering how I became part of the ten thousand year old tradition of raising the kids while creating textiles. I grew up in NE Ohio dairy country, married a sailor, lived in Hawaii ten years, lived in SC for five years, then moved back to culture shock and confusion. Nothing but good times ahead.
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9 comments:
Reminds me of fairy tales--one of the tasks set before princes was inevitably to find a shawl so fine, it could fit through the eye of a needle... now it always seemed the spinner and the knitter or weaver should have gotten more credit for that...
Ummm...wouldn't that be cobweb weight?
Booo. LOL
I can imagine getting on the plane: Is that spider silk? Sorry its been banned. You might garrot someone on the flight.
As long as it's still soft. At Stitches South last weekend I got to feel some of the stainless steel yarn that I've heard such good things about. Yuck! It couldn't be rougher. I don't think that I could stand touching it enough to make anything with it.
You wouldn't have to block it, either, right?
Now if I can convince KnitTech to get some of that I can finally have my bulletproof sweater..
historicstitcher gets the rimshot!
I liked the one about the sheep. 11,000 years of sheepherding. No wonder we like spinning & weaving so much. And I love that photo of the Soay sheep shedding its fleece!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227064.200-early-domestic-animals-surprisingly-well-bred.html
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