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Moving to wordpress
So, I made the jump to a more grown up blogging service. My experience with Wordpress on the Gender Beat project has been enjoyable, and it's definitely a superior site offering flexibility and great services. Also, it's prettier. Here's a link to the new location. I've imported all of my old posts here, and I think most of the comment threads have ( Read more... ) -
Just Make it Clap
So, I've finally jumped on the band wagon (a little late, I know), and started knitting my very first Clapotis (clap-O-tea). "Started knitting" isn't really an accurate description of how much time I've put into this scarf already. Actually, I started it a couple of weeks ago, and now that I can devote more time to knitting, I'm almost done with it ( Read more... ) -
Dyeing Yarn with Kool Aid: A Beginner's review
You may or may not recall that Betty & I procured a raw fleece at Gulf Wars this past March (for $8). I had just taken a class on processing raw fiber, and my enthusiasm for processing my own fiber was, obviously, fresh and unsatisfied (oh how quickly that would change!).
Since March, I have been combing the wool by hand with these deadly things. ( Read more... ) -
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I just heard this story on npr on the way home from the post office, more precisely, on the way home after being rejected from the post office (they locked the doors just as I was reaching for the handle). Frankly, I'm alarmed and frustrated. Legislation that interferes with individual choice, religion, and identity on one of the most basic levels ( Read more... ) -
Spinning Wheel Bust
It's finished. And...not entirely functional. "Surprise, surprise," some of you may be thinking, but the key word is "entirely." As in, it's -mostly- functional. The problem is, as I feared a few months ago after seeing a Babe's Fiber Land wheel in the flesh - uh - pvc, with the size of the PVC piping. I used 3/4" PVC. Most Babe wheels, I now know ( Read more... ) -
Two Words: Spinning. Wheel.
That's right. It's here. I mean, I'm finally building it, and it's nearly done! I need to do some last minute fiddling and hole drilling and screwing in various hardware bits. But, other than that, I've got the basic components put together.
PHOTOS!
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Fiber Crazy!
So, I've barely finished washing the fleece I bought a week ago - my FIRST raw fleece - and I'm already scouring ebay, google, and youtube for resources on making my own processing tools, cheap alpaca fleeces, and (this is my favorite) dyeing rovings and yarn with kool aid. Now, I already kind of knew about this stuff but never really paid much ( Read more... ) -
First Fleece
I bought my first unprocessed fleece at Gulf Wars this past week. It was 8 bucks total, and I'm splitting the cost & wool with a friend (although not the processing labor, which I now know kind of sucks). I'm kind of jumping in head first and don't really know what I'm doing except for a few basics and what I've gleaned from ravelry forums & ( Read more... ) -
I'M DONE!
Ok, so, I have to wait for reviews, the edit, put together some sort of presentation, defend, and THEN I'll be really done. But, the actually hard-core writing part of the thesis is OVER. Capslock just cannot capture my level of excitement right now!!!!! Neither can punctuation. To give you an idea of how overwhelming this whole experience has been ( Read more... ) -
Want to be writing other things...
Man, I fucking love anthropology, but this whole thesis writing is tor-chew-us. I will probably the postin' the final-ish version for all of my lj friends to read, meaning if I've given you permission to read my virtual diary then you can read it. If not, then you won't get to see it. I do this (I've done it for all my sca papers) because there's a ( Read more... )
