Why are there hairy vampire teeth on the floor?
"Why are there hairy vampire teeth on the floor?" A direct quote from DH as he was bending to pick up said vampire teeth off the threshold between the living room and dining room.
Sometimes I'm confronted with questions I am at a complete loss to address. Was he asking why the vampire teeth were hairy? (Ick, by the way.) Or did he want an explanation of why vampire teeth were on the floor in the first place. (I had no idea.) Lacking an intelligent answer to either interpretation, I just looked at him. He looked at me, briefly, probably not actually wanting an answer and continued into the kitchen with the vampire teeth. I heard the sink water come on as he rinsed off the hair.
And now for something completely different and fibery ---
What could this be???
A very soft model of Jupiter and its moons? A mama tribble and her babies?
It's actually the prep of fiber to produce self-striping yarn. The idea is that the large ball is spun on one bobbin and has slow color changes and the smaller balls are spun on a separate bobbin producing faster color changes. When the two bobbins are plied together the yarn produces what some spinners refer to as a "fractal" stripe. I think the "fractal" bit refers more to the fiber preparation rather than the actual fabric knit from the resulting 2-ply yarn. As you divide the original strip of roving into thinner and thinner strips, you keep the same color repeat regardless. Here are some other more familiar images of fractals...
this, if computer generated, or this, if existing in nature
I can't resist the urge to include the proper definition of "fractal" : A rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is, at least approximately, a reduced-size copy of the whole, a property called self-similarity. Benoit Mendelbrot in 1975.
Hard to believe that can apply to something as tangible as wool on bobbins.
(Bobbin on the left is the long repeats of color and the right has the shorter bursts of color. Should be interesting.....)
I also received my first Loopy Ewe Sock Club shipment
I can't wait to have a go at the pattern. Of all the socks I've made, I have always knit them from the cuff down. This pattern is toe-up so it's time to learn a new technique. Yay! Oh and what a class-act company! Not only did the package contain lovely yarn (wool, cashmere and nylon), a cool pattern (Under the Sea), goodies (needle sizer, chocolates, etc) but it came wrapped and with a thank you for being their customer. Nicely done.
In non-fiber related news...
The snow has finally melted! That means it's ....Rabbit Season?? Duck Season???** No...Scooter Season!!
And as one of the other moms said to me as we were watching everyone play scooter soccer, "Only in wester NY would we think 'Hey, it's drizzling and 45 degrees. Perfect weather for the kids to go out and play!', and actually mean it. "
And here's my brilliant son with his latest creation...
Don't you see it? He built a replica of the Pont du Gard, France, Roman Aqueduct built in 19 AD.
Um, maybe it's just me seeing things through aqueduct-colored glasses.
And just to solidify this as a stream-of-consciousness blog entry, here is the closest thing I've found to food nirvana...
Dark chocolate and salt! What craving doesn't that address!
(** Anyone a Bugs Bunny Fan? "Hold it right there! That's it! Pwonoun Twouble.")
Sometimes I'm confronted with questions I am at a complete loss to address. Was he asking why the vampire teeth were hairy? (Ick, by the way.) Or did he want an explanation of why vampire teeth were on the floor in the first place. (I had no idea.) Lacking an intelligent answer to either interpretation, I just looked at him. He looked at me, briefly, probably not actually wanting an answer and continued into the kitchen with the vampire teeth. I heard the sink water come on as he rinsed off the hair.
And now for something completely different and fibery ---
What could this be???
A very soft model of Jupiter and its moons? A mama tribble and her babies?
It's actually the prep of fiber to produce self-striping yarn. The idea is that the large ball is spun on one bobbin and has slow color changes and the smaller balls are spun on a separate bobbin producing faster color changes. When the two bobbins are plied together the yarn produces what some spinners refer to as a "fractal" stripe. I think the "fractal" bit refers more to the fiber preparation rather than the actual fabric knit from the resulting 2-ply yarn. As you divide the original strip of roving into thinner and thinner strips, you keep the same color repeat regardless. Here are some other more familiar images of fractals...
this, if computer generated, or this, if existing in nature
I can't resist the urge to include the proper definition of "fractal" : A rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is, at least approximately, a reduced-size copy of the whole, a property called self-similarity. Benoit Mendelbrot in 1975.
Hard to believe that can apply to something as tangible as wool on bobbins.
(Bobbin on the left is the long repeats of color and the right has the shorter bursts of color. Should be interesting.....)
I also received my first Loopy Ewe Sock Club shipment
I can't wait to have a go at the pattern. Of all the socks I've made, I have always knit them from the cuff down. This pattern is toe-up so it's time to learn a new technique. Yay! Oh and what a class-act company! Not only did the package contain lovely yarn (wool, cashmere and nylon), a cool pattern (Under the Sea), goodies (needle sizer, chocolates, etc) but it came wrapped and with a thank you for being their customer. Nicely done.
In non-fiber related news...
The snow has finally melted! That means it's ....Rabbit Season?? Duck Season???** No...Scooter Season!!
And as one of the other moms said to me as we were watching everyone play scooter soccer, "Only in wester NY would we think 'Hey, it's drizzling and 45 degrees. Perfect weather for the kids to go out and play!', and actually mean it. "
And here's my brilliant son with his latest creation...
Don't you see it? He built a replica of the Pont du Gard, France, Roman Aqueduct built in 19 AD.
Um, maybe it's just me seeing things through aqueduct-colored glasses.
And just to solidify this as a stream-of-consciousness blog entry, here is the closest thing I've found to food nirvana...
Dark chocolate and salt! What craving doesn't that address!
(** Anyone a Bugs Bunny Fan? "Hold it right there! That's it! Pwonoun Twouble.")
"Dark chocolate and salt! What craving doesn't that address!'
LOL... LOVE that thought! Ah... the good ol' pre-physical-melt-down years. When popcorn was mainly a carrier for massive butter and salt consumption.
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