nj zine fest!

well the fest happened and it didn't. i mean like, it happened and we went and set up our table and all, but the turnout was terrible! and the people shopping there were obviously there for zines and not purses or yarn really, so the sales that we made on actual items were few and far between. both jessica and i made only about $60. it was funny because i got home and saw that i'd made two sales on etsy and i was like wow, i made more money by not being here than going to that fest.

but it was more valuable for the cool people i met, for real. i found out about it from this girl christine on getcrafty and i met her and she was just awesome!! it was so neat to meet her in person. we're making secret plans to get a NJ craft show rockin. oh and this other girl runs an art shop with some  guy and they're both interested in carrying jessica's and my work. awesome!

jessica's zine was hilarious and not very many people were interested:


and then here's a picture of our table (jessica's taking it):

so you know, it was worth it. was there anything else i had to tell you? i don't think so. i'm $200 into the drum carder fund after this weekend, so hopefully in another few weeks or so i will be ordering it and it will be here in my hot little hands. now it's time to have a nosh and watch much ado about nothing, which i'm wholly uninterested in but there will be much discussion about on wednesday. ahhh shakespeare at 8am.

oh there was something else to tell you. i almost broke all of my furniture today because i was trying to make an animated gif and it took like 5 hours. i was just downloading things and none of them would save, or they would save with a watermark, or they were virus programs, and it was really just amazing and fun. so yeah! yup. goodnite.

i'm so tired!

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this yarn brings me unmeasurable joy. i was looking through my box of random leftovers and i found some pink, melon/pink, salmon (all merino or corriedales), and burgundy merino/silk and decided that i might as well go for it. i grabbed my little baggie of watermelon angelina and spun in polite amounts. this is probably my favorite yarn out of all of the ones i've logged these past few days. it's really soft and not that overspun - perfect for whatever project. of course i'm selling it, but if no one ends up buying it i'm going to make it into something soft and wonderful.

i've been spinning up a storm for the zine fest. i hope that people there are interested. i've been incredibly lazy this week. not really lazy, but uninterested in the other projects i should be working on. i just keep having yarn ideas, and i'm getting so much better at thinner, more even yarns that i'm just really excited about spinning to see what i'll come up with next. it's so weird and meditative. it's like my hands and what appears on the wheel are completely unrelated things but they speak the same language. when they work together i don't even notice what i'm doing. wonderful.

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i've just been making a variety of things, trying to use a more diverse color palette. it's hard when you're strongly attracted to certain colors because you just don't want to work with anything else. i'm also trying to start spinning more low twist singles, but it's hard! it's harder than it seems. i can't wait to get my hands in some fiber and try again tomorrow. tonight i have more knitting to do. i would love to finish my wavy scarf before the freakin summer. it was almost 80 the other day and now it's freezing again. who knows what's going on in the atmosphere.

our downstairs neighbor is so rude. he just moved in and he's all about watching his HUGE widescreen tv as loud as possible at very late hours. it vibrates the floor and the couch. we had no neighbor until about 2 weeks ago when this guy moved in, and we kinda preferred it alone. harrumph. that's also why i'm spinning so much, because it calms me down.

i guess i'd better go to bed before i brutally murder the guy downstairs.

spinning spinning everything

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good morning america!

it has been an action packed weekend. not really. yesterday boon and i went all over and did pretty much everything that we didn't originally intend to do. the only objective we had all day was to go see the hills have eyes. it turned into let's go to a yarn shop and a ton of thrift shops in collingswood, buy a briefcase and a hat, go eat, go to the driving range, go bowling, then dye a pound of wool and play videogames. it was so nonsensical. but it was so fun. if you check out the album you'll see that i suck at golf and also that i'm about 12 years old.

so i dyed my pound of white mill ends. and while i like that it was really cheap, i kinda hated dyeing the wool because it was sortof matted and a bit more coarse than i'm used to working with, so everything was coming out of the dyebath in a big hot clump. it wasn't a huge deal but it was just annoying because everything is taking twice as long to dry because it was all mashed together.

i'm over it since what i wanted to work with today was dry when i woke up. the yarn in the picture is one of the two i did today. i'm also over complaining about plying with thread. it's not as bad as i thought it was at first, it just takes practice. now i can do it like a champ. it's great.

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i also tried my hand at spinning really thinly again and had a very decent time with it. i have no idea the length of the skein, but it seems small in comparison to my usual jumbo skeins. it's about fingering to dk weight. i'm trying to get better at thin so when i feel like learning to knit socks i can use my own handspun. ambitions ambitions!

someone bought lollapalooza! i'm just happy about that because it was a really neat yarn that someone should own and use.

getting motivated!

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i made this yarn a while ago. i coiled it a little too much ... i was going for more of a boucle look. but it's really neat anyway, and full of sparkle! it's only 72 or 76 yards or something, so it'll be great as stripes or a gorgeous hat or something. merino and falklands, as usual. softy soft. i don't know if i'm going to sell it or try to trade it with someone.

i'm so excited for my wool bits to get here! i love experimenting with new fibers. it makes my existence so much happier. whatever yarns i make out of them will be either traded or sold for really cheaply, i guess, because the supplies were so ridiculously inexpensive. of course i'll post pictures of my progress.

i'm getting motivated for the zine fest. i guess i'm going to make a very serious effort to get there and do it. i started "recipes" today and the cover is really silly but i love it so far. it's going to be a 1/4 size i think, just because i can conserve more paper and besides, who needs a recipe booklet with tons of wasted space? you want to stash that thing in a convenient location and whip it out when it's time for something yum.

more later! i have to cook some biscuits.