1. How long have you been spinning? What skill level do you consider yourself?

Not long, definitely a beginner.

2. What kinds of yarn do you create (singles/2-ply/3-ply/art yarn)?

All of it.  I’m still playing around, getting  a good feel for what I want to do, but I’m having a blast planning out art yarns.  Beaded, sparkly stuff is fun.

3. What do you spin with (spindle/wheel/both)?

Mostly the wheel.  I do use my spindle to spin samples off the drum carder.

4. What are your favorite fibers to spin with? Anything you don’t like?

Silk top.  I could spin it for days and days.  Any soft wools as well.  I haven’t met a fiber I don’ t like.  I’m not a huge fan of rough wools, but they have their place.

5. Who are your favorite crack dealers fiber sources (etsy or otherwise)?

Sheep Shed Studios is awesome, and I love a bunch of etsy designers, and my own stuff too, of course

6. What kind of fiber do you want to try?

Just anything, cellulose, dog, whatever.

7. Is there any techniques you would like to learn?

Andean plying and coils.

8. Do you dye fiber? If not, would you like to learn?

Yes!  And I love it!

9. Do you have fiber prep tools (and like to use them) or would you prefer ready to spin fiber?

I have them, I don’t mind using them, but I prefer my fiber ready to spin because I’m lazy!

10. What do you do with your handspun? What projects have you completed?

Stick it in a plastic bin.  Sometimes I knit/crochet things.  I’ve have exactly two finished objects out of my handspun.  A chapstick cozy and a hat.

11. Are you in need of any spinning gadgets (WPI Gauge, threading hook, etc)?

I’d love a spinner’s control card and a WPI gauge as I don’t have either.  I wouldn’t mind a pretty diz either.

12. What colors “fall into your shopping basket”? Any colors you just can’t stand?

Jewel tones, especially purple/orange/green/turquoise/magenta, crap, all of them.  I despise pastels with the passion of a thousand dying suns.

13. What is on your wheel/spindle right now?

Some rough mystery wool I dyed as an experiment and I have realized I hate spinning up.  I think it’ll go to the needle felting pile.

14. What other crafts/hobbies do you have?

You don’t want the whole list, trust me, there’s a bunch.  If it can be done chances are I’ve either done it, currently do it, am about to learn it or have considered it at some point.
15. Other than crafts, what are you passionate about?

Animal welfare and treatment, factory farming, abolition of the drug laws.

16. Do you have an online wishlist?

Somewhere on Amazon.  Don’t ask me where.  I don’t know.

17. Is there anything that you collect?

Beavers!  The mammalian sort, please.

18. Any books, yarns, needles or patterns out there you are dying to get your hands on? What magazine subscriptions do you have?

I’d love the new Big Girl Knits, Eclectic Sole or Charlene Schurch’s first Sensational Socks book.  I don’t do magazines, really.  More trash I don’t need.

19. When is your birthday?

Dec 27.

20. What book or movie character do you most resemble in personality?
I’ve been told I look like Janis Joplin, but I don’t see it, whatever.  Other than that I can’t think of one.

21. What is the climate like where you live around this time (need to know for careful shipments of anything meltable)?

Hot, freaking OMGWTFBBQ hot.

22. Tell us one weird fact about yourself!

I once ate a live moth on purpose.

Favorites
favorite painting/picture(link): I’m partial to the Rococo Movement if you can believe it, because I am the least girlie girl you’ll ever meet.

Candy: Chocolate, of course.

Food: Indian

Drink: Iced tea

Movie(s): Gone With the Wind, The Color Purple, Happiness

TV Show(s): Spongebob Squarepants, Family Guy, Home Movies, Sealab 2001, pretty much anything on adult swim, The Simpsons, King of the Hill and Hell’s Kitchen.  We’re also currently watching the UK version of Kitchen Nightmares.  I am an animation major, do not judge my love of cartoons.

Book(s): Gap Creek, Gone With the Wind, Just about anything by Mercedes Lackey, Stephen King or David Sedaris

Guilty Pleasure(s): Schadenfreude

Vagina is how I will refer to my new home state.  We are moving.  I am simultaneously terrified out of my fucking wits and excited beyond belief.  It’s a strange emotional dichotomy and I don’t recommend it.

The prospect of moving all our STUFF is overwhelming.  I can see a great deal of culling in our future.  I keep telling Jat he’s going to have to sell/trash/give/blow up that damn Super Breakout arcade cabinet he has.  It works, but only when he turns it on, which has been all of twice in the 5+ years we’ve been together, so yeah, despite what he may believe, that shit’s not coming to Vagina with us.

Me?  Oh, I’ve just got about two metric fucking tons of art/craft supplies.  All of which won’t be coming with us.  Which means I’m going to be having one helluva yard sale.  Paula gets to pick over it first and take what she wants, I’ll sell whatever’s left.

We’re leaving the furniture too.  Not all of it, but the living room set, our dining set (Mom’s taking that back, we got it 3rd or 4th hand) and probably a few other things as well.  I’d like to leave the bedroom furniture too and buy a new mattress because we need one desperately. Jat is set on us moving ourselves.  I think he’s insane and hope he plans on doing the loading/unloading because the most I”m willing to do is pack boxes.  I’m being a bratty little bitch and I know it, but I don’t care.  I don’t particularly WANT to move and it’s got me all tied up in anxious knots.  If I have to think about loading/unloading boxes in the middle of fucking August I want to curl up and stick dust in my eyes until it’s over.

I’m trying to have a positive attitude about all this.  I know in the long run it’s going to be great for us both, me especially since I’ve always lived here (at least as long as I can remember).   He’s really excited about this job.  It’s his dream job with great opportunity for advancement and  he already has a dear, old friend who works in the same capacity as Jat would be, so he has it on very good authority that the company is a great one to work for and expanding rapidly.

Can’t I just overdose on Xanax and have someone wake me up when we’re there?  Please?

I’ll likely be moving all the animals by myself.  All that shit, my kiln, my wheel and my lathe, all things I don’t trust to be under anyone’s control but my own, won’t fit in my Honda, not to mention I’m not convinced the poor old bitch could make it there.  So we’ll be renting the biggest SUV we can that can tow my car and moving animals, the car, and my TLC shit that way.  Fun times.  At least the goddamn thing will have AC.