Feb 13, 2025
Spin this wheel and tell me if you got something you need/want.
Did you need/want it?
Yes please
No thanks
Eh, couldn’t hurt
Well NOW I need it
Please do not give this to me
Voting ended onFeb 20, 2025
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Spin this wheel and tell me if you got something you need/want.
Did you need/want it?
Yes please
No thanks
Eh, couldn’t hurt
Well NOW I need it
Please do not give this to me
YOU'VE JUST BEEN ISEKAI'D!
You know how it is. You were hit by a truck or fell from a great height, and now you're trapped in a fantasy land! Quick, spin this wheel to find out what you've reincarnated as!
How will you fare in this magical world?
I would rather have died
It's... I mean okay I guess.
Hm. Not ideal, but I can roll with it.
Literally fine.
Oh hold up I can COOK with this one
I will do the best I can
I WAS BORN TO PLAY THIS PART.
Remember to show this to all your friends :)
Have you ever wanted to be in a soulmate au? No? Too bad! Spin the wheel and see what bizarre soulmate au you've found yourself in. Soulmate can be platonic, familial, rivalry, romantic or whatever else you want it to be though. Do note that some of these do imply a more romantic or sexual soulmate but honestly it's kinda funnier if the signifier is something kinda horny and the soulmate is just platonic.
How we feeling?
I found my soulmate super quick and everything's fine!
The soulmate signifier is so unintrusive I don't care if i find them or not
Things will be really bad at first but once I find my soulmate it should be fine
My entire life is ruined and I have to work around this for the rest of my life
I'm just really confused, this concept seems more convoluted the more you think
I'm just straight up dead?? what??? isn't this supposed to be a romance trope???
Well my life is just going to be a comedy of annoying errors.
Oh this is just really cute in general, I'll be fine even if it takes awhile
Oh my life has objectively been improved by this universe actually
This is a fate worse then death
I am actively trying to avoid finding my soulmate
other/im bald/vanilla extract
WHY SPINNING
Instead of spin logging, today I tell you what is so cool (and frankly, a bit addictive) about spinning, so if you are on the fence as to whether you need this new hobby in your life in 2025, you can blame me for enabling you
1. FAST REWARD (WHEN LEARNING AND WHEN DOING)
Like all crafting hobbies, spinning takes a bit of technique learning and this comes with practice. However, it doesn’t take long to pick it up and start spinning. What takes long is achieving regular and consisting spuns, but once you have a spindle, some fleece and a Youtube video showing you how to do it, chances are that you‘ll be spinning some yarn of varying quality by the end of that video.
With other fiber arts like knitting, crocheting, lace making, or sewing, the learning process before you can produce something that really looks like the thing you wanted to make is longer.
When you’re doing it (not only learning), you see the product almost immediately. The transformation from fleece to yarn is nearly immediate and you literally see the fiber turn into yarn in your hands. While it might take a while to finish a project (like, finishing spinning the entire fleece, plying, washing, drying), every single spinning session leaves you with the feel of having made a lot of progress.
So this makes spinning a fast rewarding craft.
2. NOT MUCH THINKING
If you have watched Once Upon a Time, you may remember that when Emma becomes the Dark One, Rumplestiltskin tells her something like: “You need a hobby to take your mind off the horrible things you’re going to do, like knitting. That’s why I spin.”
Now I’m not the Dark One and I don’t go around terrorizing villages during the day, but I do have a job that requires my brain capacity at its full the entire time and for 10-11 hours a day. A reason why I stopped playing the piano or reading in the evening is that my brain just cannot make it.
Fiber arts are generally good at taking your mind off things, and many can be done while thinking about something else or even while looking at something else (like watching movies). Spinning is, in my view, the one that takes the lowest concentration because there’s no scheme or pattern to be followed, no stitch count, no paying much attention to the next step. So when you’re so tired that even following a scheme and counting stitches seems an impossible task, spinning can be an option.
3. FIBER AWARENESS
Even if you start like me by just randomly buying some fiber and spinning for the sake of spinning, at some point you will inevitably observe the differences between different fibers. You will see how different fibers such as merino, corriedale, alpaca, kashmir, plant fibers behave and what yarn you can make out of them. You might learn about the existence of types of wool or plant fibers you never heard before. At some point you’ll research about sheep breeds and learn about them, wonder about their welfare, maybe start paying attention to where your fibers come from.
4. FIBER VERSATILITY
You decide the gauge of your yarn, if it’s bulky or lace weight. If you card your fiber, you also decide on its blend. If you dye your fiber, you decide on all the shades and appearance.
5. IT IS, IN PRINCIPLE, A CHEAP HOBBY (BUT WATCH OUT FOR THE RABBIT HOLE)
Okay let’s talk about the question everyone asks: whether it’s an expensive hobby and whether it costs less than buying yarn.
Starting to spin can be cheap. My first drop spindle was about 13€. My first 100g of eider wool were less than 2€. That, plus shipment because I bought them from an online shop, and I could start spinning with less than 20€.
Also, in general, fiber is cheaper than yarn of the same composition. Like, 50 g of 100% wool for knitting cost more than the same weight of wool for spinning.
However, even if you stay with a cheap drop spindle, the time you invest in making the yarn has a value. Whether your yarn is cheaper or not than the one you buy depends on how you value this time (if you do not value it as an expense because you enjoy the hobby of spinning, then spinning with a cheap drop spindle is indeed cheaper than buying yarn)
But there is a rabbit hole waiting for you and luring you in: at some point, you will want more fiber. This will easily turn into a stash occupying many boxes (and costing more money than if you were just buying the yarn you need for a project).
And of course, at some point there will be the temptation / urge / need to get the spinning wheel. If you buy it new, it’s somewhere between 400€ and 1200€ depending on the model. This will take a while to be amortized against the extra expense that would incur if you bought yarn.
Once you enter the spinning wheel loop, there will be other things tempting you (a matching stool for the spinning wheel, another lazy kate, a bigger flyer, a ball winder, a swift…)
In general, if you’re thinking about this hobby with the idea of saving money on yarn, I have to say it’s probably not the best reason for starting it. But at least in principle, it is something you can try out with a small investment and then decide if pursuing with more tools and material.
6. USING (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) YOUR YARN
If you use your yarn for knitting or crocheting or weaving, you will have the satisfaction of creating and obtaining a finished product that you have made from the raw fiber. It’s a sort of upgrade of the already valid satisfaction of making something from a storebought ball of yarn with your hands.
If you don’t use your yarn, like I do, it’s still cool to think that you transformed fiber into usable yarn. And you can gift it (or sell it, if you prefer). I like the idea of gifting my yarn to people I know will make better use of it and will produce a better result than anything I could do with my limited crochet/knitting skills. And all knitters / crochet artists are happy to receive new yarn.
That’s all I could think of for now. If you are a spinner and want to add more cool things about spinning that should convince other tumblers to spin, please share in the reblogs!
alright y'all it's time for the mystery lotr ship wheel......
click here and spin the wheel twice, then answer whether or not you would ship these characters together!
do you ship these characters?
i already ship these characters! yes!
wait..... there is a lot of potential here... maybe i will ship..
i could see this working out
don't care, probably won't think of them again after this
these characters are already shipped but i don't personally ship them
i can't see them being together at all, no
HELL NO. cursed.
i threw in some characters from the hobbit to fill up the wheel a bit! share who you got!
(this is all in good fun, and is not meant to be taken seriously or start ship discourse in 2025!!! spin the wheel twice, three times, idc! but do not take it seriously or spread ship hate, let’s just have fun!)
Another day, another project started. I´m spinning 200gramms of this watermelon green corriedale fiber for a friend.
Forest vibes 🌲🌳