Highly Bribable

30-Something, Devotee to the Cult of Robin Hobb, Ace, Spinster-for-hire 🇨🇦

[disgruntled-lifeform]

I'm looking to make connections with more Canadian suppliers of dyed fibres.

If you are an indie dyer based out of Canada who wants to work with a Canadian based Spinster, hmu and we can build a better textiles community in the wake of this Tarifficult Time

Intrigued? Click the read more for my vision on how this would shake down

TLDR: I offer you my services as a Spinner to supply your shop with handspun at a flexible cost per meter rate, and since many hands make light work if any other spinners wanted in on the racket they could DM me to have their name on a contact spreadsheet for dyers to use as a phonebook if they want to have a certain spinner's touch

That's it. That's the idea.

With the tariffs ruining small business and lots of people losing crossborder income, I thought that we could work together to fill in the gaps.

I'm loving commission work so much and my local access to The Fiber Imp is a nice bonus but I want to work with more indie dyers and custom blends!

Ship me your new colourways and I will send back samples of it spun in different ways to show off it's potential!

You want me to do swatches in knit/crochet/tunisian crochet to show to different crafters the way it pools?

Want to have a stock of handspun on hand but no time to spin it yourself?

Spinster-For-Hire, at your service!

Let me help you and get a bit more coin in my pocket to help my fledgling business leave the nest.

If I'm not the Spinster for you then maybe you would like to peruse our portfolio catalogue for the right person for the task?

Do you see it? Do you see my vision?

[withswords]

there's an anime everyone's into right now and it must be really confusing because everyone in the tags keeps going "wha?" it's okay gang you'll figure it out.

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Shut up and take my rb

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Giving this progress pic it's own post because I love the way the yarn is expressing

[disgruntled-lifeform]

For no reason I can assertain, my ball winder is now making saucers instead of cakes

I mean, I guess this work but no matter how I adjust things it seems to be on the fritz

[disgruntled-lifeform]

I do love the process of hand winding my yarn but the act tends to hurt my hands if done too frequently; it allows me to really get to know my handspun and this hank is special because it contains a single from my first venture with the support spindle

I think it will lend itself well to the Oakberry shawl

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Aaaaaaand time!

That is 4-ish hours of my life spent making a wooly egg

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Gauge knit, looks lovely and I'll block it later

Assuming it shrinks then the sizing is fine, if not then I'll have to suffer through having a slightly larger shawl, oh no...

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Trying to decide if I care that my acorn adornment looks nothing like an acorn

I'm sure it's fiiiine

[disgruntled-lifeform]

These are the same to me

[disgruntled-lifeform]

We're knitting

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Progress update:

[disgruntled-lifeform]

While the 3-ply oilslick spin rests, I start in on the 3rd and final braid of @akaluan's Black Magic.

This time, the plan is a cable yarn with 2 of the singles being the same as the oilslick singles and the other 2 drafted straight from the comb top.

I'll pair the plies so that one single is oilslick and the other the straight draft.

Since the end goal is a yarn suited for crochet, I'm inversing the spin directions to end up with a Z-twist

The first straight-drafted single ^

[disgruntled-lifeform]

2/4 bobbins spun, the next step is to blend the remaining fibre

@akaluan soon we will need to decide how to spin your batts!

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Ah shit, here we go again

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Starting to work on the first set of plying and it looks amazing spun so thin!

Accountability Keppet on duty

@akaluan this might be my favourite of the ways to spin this braid!

[disgruntled-lifeform]

I am now at the stage where I pass the first 2-ply through the wheel again to ensure it is extra twisty and so I present to you a plyback sample of what the final yarn will look like:

I am going to start passing more yarn back through the wheel after this experience because I absolutely can make warp worthy yarn with this method and I have ✨️plans✨️

@akaluan

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Update on the overdyed Rambouillet, it's still awesome

[ofchaosgoddess]

Bug report seems to have worked? I don’t see the mature content flag anymore.

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Oh hey, neat.

[disgruntled-lifeform]

While the 3-ply oilslick spin rests, I start in on the 3rd and final braid of @akaluan's Black Magic.

This time, the plan is a cable yarn with 2 of the singles being the same as the oilslick singles and the other 2 drafted straight from the comb top.

I'll pair the plies so that one single is oilslick and the other the straight draft.

Since the end goal is a yarn suited for crochet, I'm inversing the spin directions to end up with a Z-twist

The first straight-drafted single ^

[disgruntled-lifeform]

2/4 bobbins spun, the next step is to blend the remaining fibre

@akaluan soon we will need to decide how to spin your batts!

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Ah shit, here we go again

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Starting to work on the first set of plying and it looks amazing spun so thin!

Accountability Keppet on duty

@akaluan this might be my favourite of the ways to spin this braid!

[peachfromcmbyn]

The Ikea biphobia couch is the funniest thing that's ever happened. We found it gang. Nothing will ever top it in terms of being funny.

[dead-boysss]

The what???

[peachfromcmbyn]

The Ikea biphobia couch.

[dead-boysss]

???

[peachfromcmbyn]

I don't know what to tell you man.

[queermystic]

That was the exact thought process

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Okay, I actually like the ace couch, gives me geode vibes

[ofchaosgoddess]

I vacuumed behind and beneath my floor loom pls clap

[disgruntled-lifeform]

[disgruntled-lifeform]

That's rude @unreasonablyannoying you can't just ask that

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Okay so I just saw this horrible ad from the Gov of Ontario gloating that they are shutting down safe injection sites and a bunch of other assinine things

Anyways it would be a shame if you were to click this link, read through the page, and formulate a well thought out response to send them via the Contact Us button at the bottom of the page

A Safer Ontario

Learn how we’re working to make every corner of Ontario safer. So we can make all of Ontario safer.

[ofchaosgoddess]

I vacuumed behind and beneath my floor loom pls clap

[disgruntled-lifeform]

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Are you excited for the season finale of Witch Hat Atelier Season 1?

[train-heartnet-xiii]

I just came back in from letting my dog out.

he didn’t want to come in so I kept trying different things to get him to come and finally he ran the opposite direction and tripped over a large branch and did this ungraceful flip and I exclaimed out loud “DAMMIT MOON MOON!”

and about five houses down someone is having an outdoor party around a bonfire and I hear someone from there exclaim back “WHO THE FUCK INVITED MOON MOON!”

[callingallcars]

everyone’s debating posts of the decade, best and worst, and i have yet to see anyone mention moon moon

[callingallcars]

for those who were not on here to experience this ridiculousness

[feral-flower-child]

Seriously. It caused so many memes.

[feral-flower-child]

[feral-flower-child]

Truly the greatest meme of our generation

[tokenofmydevotion]

I'm dying. I saw the original, but I've never seen any of the others. God bless you, Moon Moon.

[strawbebehmod]

Moon moon is the best thing this site ever made fuck anyone who thinks otherwise

[assbutthasthephonebox]

I miss Moon Moon

[disgruntled-lifeform]

chim

[disgruntled-lifeform]

My partner and Idiot Brother are out in Toronto for the day so I have been making stock and flirting with the idea of knitting

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Why, hello there beautiful

[disgruntled-lifeform]

@the-fibre-stuff yes, incredibly aggressive blocking is needed and a good ol' yank and pull to settle the stitches.

Luckily this is a 'just for me' shawl and I'm practicing being imperfect >.<

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Alas, my solitude must come to an end but I made decent progress on the Oakberry shawl and it was lovely spending time with my animals today.

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Guys did you know that I have a puppy?

He's pretty great