sharonkallis.bsky.social
Muddling through All the Things to growing and making my own wardrobe.
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Your pattern shows up the variegated colourway beautifully!
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This is everything!!! ❤️ I have yet to use any AI knowingly for an writing tasks for the same reason that at 55 I choose to shovel wood chips in the garden myself...use it or lose it! What else would I be saving myself for, shopping?
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I'm watching the nettles for when the Lady bug mating begins... currently they're all still singles on stalks, but give it 2 weeks ;)
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A favorite moment last year was asking a musician friend who was knitting in a bar before her gig what she was knitting, her answer was knitting her anxiety...best answer ever I thought... Dishcloths are perfect for that. Knit onwards!
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Words are like stitches..they all get strung together to make something greater than the whole, and a slow contemplative task...except when they come like a torrent, the equivalent of what I call 'drunken stitches'?
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Best feeling ever!!
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🤣totally go for it
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That looks like a good path for walking and spinning, the knitting would be on a couch later on😉
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Hey, I resemble that...🤣🤣🤣
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It's actually an unknown wool, like a targhee fleece, only grey, gifted bag of clean fleece spun and knit up likely 10 years ago?
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Ohh, I love this game! Closest I have crossed the finish line was 2 ft
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Found it!.. I hadn't read down far enough. Good luck, and yes please post your progress
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Wow, that is gorgeous, good luck and please share any results!
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Wool is antimicrobial, we have gotten used to washing our clothes as if we are wearing polyester and it's so not required with wool!... messy eating aside of course😉
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Hmm, UK evenings fit my morning zoom availability, as gardens wake up my time will disappear but pls keep me on any list should something get started, I have a pro zoom account so could host a few too...
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Very rarely! I live in wool tank tops as my tshirt equivalent, I hang them on the line for a day after wearing, then back in the closet, probably two or three times a year they got washed? Far less then my linen knits.
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Looks great Laura!
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And that is a lifestyle upgrade you won't regret!
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Yes of course! Now is a great time to launch this, and happy to help promote too. Lmk the date you are looking at for Sep as soon as you can so I can hold the date🤩
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Fantastic!!!
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Omg, that song is ALWAYS in my head!😂
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LOTS😂
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Yes! Removing connection to land and food sovereignty is truly colonization 101... here we are again...😭.another reason why they reduce/control education-its access to how resistance has been fought in the past. Ugh.
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...a radical turn in perspective due to current affairs, but maybe foreign investors holding AG land right now isn't the worst after all? ... (still a fan of any LandBack options) but fear feeding people real food grown near home is going to get harder
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I know historically linseywoolsey has been 'a thing' but nettle is a lively line compared to linen, and has a bounce that works much better with wool IMHO 😉
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This is my big fear about what is ahead for all US farmers. Between the pulled grants leaving farmers in debt, and now Canadian potash 25% more if tarriffs go ahead, small/mid sized independent farms will be forced to sell.
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Sharon, also in Vancouver 🇨🇦,
I grow nettles and flax to spin, work with gotland× wool from nearby Barnston island and always have a few projects on needles, a wheel or a warp weighted loom.👋
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.. is there another way?
Is there a prayer to Clotho I am supposed to say too?
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Lol, I was at my desk hyper focused. I totally missed it😅
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??? Did I miss a shake?
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Totally!! I think lots about curated efficiencies...when I use a wheel over a drop spindle, a drum carder vs hand carders, sewing machine vs hand stitching...mostly, the slower the roll the more enjoyable the process