The LightBulb Just Went Off

I've seen the Knit and Tonic blog  mentioned a few times in the last couple of days and decided to visit and see what was going on.  I read everything on the front page and that helped me to understand.  I thought she had a gilfriend for a while.  Then I realized she refers to her daughter as Girlfriend.    Not a huge thing, but helpful to understand.

I read her post about learning to use a drop spindle.  Something that's on my very long To Do list.  I was very interested in the idea of spinning silk and how it might somehow be 'easier'.  Go here to read.

I followed her links to Knitty.com and, again, found out that learning to use a drop spindle with silk hankies sounds fairly simple.  Go here and here.  That took me to the Crown Mountain Farms website.   Btw, if I was a smarter girl, I would have sensed trouble at this point. 

But no! 

Instead I found myself starting at lovely dyed silk hankies while thinking over what color(s) I would like/love most.  While looking at that page, I noticed the sidebar images and the lightbulb went off.

I would spin the silk hankies.  Then spin the silk with some yummy lace weight yarn, and have wool and silk yarn.  In colors of my picking.

That's when I began to feel faint, and heard my mother's voice in my head.  She wanted to know what I would do with all this yummy yarn I was planning on making.

My first thought?  Don't care.  Just want to play with it.

I'm going back to knitting on the boring super wash wool hat for boy.  He won't like it and I don't care.  It's here and it will not lead me to tempation.  Unlike the boy or all that silk...

Comments

[Susan]

I'm certainly not good at it, but after my weekend initiation in drop spindles, I love it. It's like magic when you feel the fibers run through your fingers and they turn into yarn. Whoa. Now I guess I'll come back here at lunchtime at work and follow the links. Good thing I'm broke right now *G*

[KnittyOtter]

WANT!!!!!!!!!!! Wanna Wanna Wanna do that!!!

o.0

Must. Get. Silk. Hankies. And. Drop. Spindle.

NOW.

o.0

You will be the death of me, woman!! *L*

When I get back I'm going to have to seriously consider all of this. :D

*HUGS*

[Dave Daniels]

I have never tried the hankies. I've seen how they are made, right from the little buggy coccoon-thingies, but never tried it. I LOVE to spin- spindle or wheel, it makes no difference. And I have no desire to knit with it. The yarn IS the project. lol Yours is looking quite fab, I'm sure.

[Ann]

That Crown Mountain Farms web site is evil...

...you should be ashamed for spreading this among friends.

So much for my retail therapy stalemate...

'splain those hankies to me? You make some sort of coccoon like a butterfly and it makes a hanky?

[Dave Daniels]

So, uh, did you ever get the hankies and spindle going? After almost a year, I'm looking into trying to get some hankies to dye to experiment with them.
Can you believe YOUR post showed up when I did a Google for this topic?