This is the inside of stitchpunk's head

 

Baby bonsai in my office is flowering. So pretty!

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It's a Serissa in case anyone was wondering...
 

We The Robots

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I don't think this webcomic is around any more. I miss it.
 

My first proper skein spun on my Joy wheel

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This is 220m of Corriedale 2-ply in purple, grey and olive. I'm so proud of myself I brought this skein to work today! I'll add technical details once I've worked them out.

Can't wait to spin more of this and actually make something from it!

 

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's not true

 "...the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives."

Neal Stephenson, "Anathem".

This is a BIG (as in long) book. I'll post a review once I'm done with it, but for now I just had to share that quote because it resonated with me.

 

I've been doing a bit of spinning

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This is Corriedake combed top from the Little Wool Co in shades of purple, moss and grey.
 

oh hai!

 It occurred to me I should maybe, like, actually write something for once. Something SHORT. So I'm just going to say that I have bought a spinning wheel - a Majacraft Pioneer to be precise - and am awaiting delivery in the next week. Ah, the delicious torture of waiting for Good Things to arrive on your doorstep!  Here's the wheel: http://www.majacraft.co.nz/wheels/pioneer.php  an entry level model, but her drive wheel is going to be spraypainted apple green and I can promise you she will have ATTITUDE.

I have a kick spindle http://www.heavenlyhandspinning.com/e-commerce-solutions-catalog2.html which I have been learning to spin on for the past year or so. Meggie is one step up from a drop spindle but a lot smaller and more portable than a full wheel. However, since a friend cajoled me into taking a spinning course by correspondence with Creative Fibres NZ http://www.creativefibre.org.nz/cs/default.asp I have come to fully realise the limits of the spindle, so it was time to move on up. I have vague dreams of opening a little shop on Etsy to sell luvverly yarns and maybe even outrageous art yarns.

All this is by way of saying to expect some not-very-exciting-to-anyone-else photos of wheel unpacking and wheel pimping out in the next couple of weeks.  In the meantime I shall just whine on Twitter about how hard it is to wait.
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