Hee! Yay! I'm glad you have it, and that you appreciate that part. Wow. Thank you.
I remember bringing with me bundles of my spun lace-weight wool to the UK on one of our trips and I was knitting in the underground on a lace shawl with the super-softly spun brown wool. A rather elderly gentlemen peered mildly at me and said, "You're far too young to be doing that, you know?" I smiled at him. He continued, "But I'm glad to see that someone still is."
You still are! *grin*
The flax strickts have always impressed me the most... something about their beautiful, simple, and utilitarian lines always gets to me. Maybe it's also the story of "straw" to gold (a quality mark for linen yarn). It always surprised me that something that would give me literally thousands of yards of thread would only cost $5.
Ha! I get that too. I particularly get it when I'm knitting socks, and then it really bakes their noodle when I tell them I'm knitting socks for my grandmother.
Can you spin flax on a drop spindle? I guess people did, once. . . .
And, yes, you can definitely spin flax with a drop spindle. It's actually very good for that, as the long fibers make it extra strong, and if you wet spin it (i.e. run wet fingers along it as it's being spun), it is really strong and flexible enough for winding onto a spindle.
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Date: 2003-10-16 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-17 07:44 am (UTC)I remember bringing with me bundles of my spun lace-weight wool to the UK on one of our trips and I was knitting in the underground on a lace shawl with the super-softly spun brown wool. A rather elderly gentlemen peered mildly at me and said, "You're far too young to be doing that, you know?" I smiled at him. He continued, "But I'm glad to see that someone still is."
You still are! *grin*
The flax strickts have always impressed me the most... something about their beautiful, simple, and utilitarian lines always gets to me. Maybe it's also the story of "straw" to gold (a quality mark for linen yarn). It always surprised me that something that would give me literally thousands of yards of thread would only cost $5.
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Date: 2003-10-17 08:59 am (UTC)Can you spin flax on a drop spindle? I guess people did, once. . . .
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Date: 2003-10-17 09:33 am (UTC)And, yes, you can definitely spin flax with a drop spindle. It's actually very good for that, as the long fibers make it extra strong, and if you wet spin it (i.e. run wet fingers along it as it's being spun), it is really strong and flexible enough for winding onto a spindle.
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Date: 2003-10-17 09:33 am (UTC)thank you!