Oh I am lovin this PSP!!

My Goddess! Look what I have created now!

"Flames of Sekhemet"

Yah, I've felt that way a couple times in my recent lifetime. HA!

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Animusic - Online Store

Animusic - Online Store

I saw this after watching the red and green show on one of the public access channels while I was knitting tonight (doing a knitting challenge for one of the groups-finish one ore more knitting projects this weekend...almsot finished with my cabled hat!!!), and it is something amazing! Check out the link, then on the website click on DVD info and clips to see some 30 second clips of tracks. I can't imagine the time, work, and creativity it took to make these! What a work of art and music! I will have to gander and purchase one this fall.

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More goodies!

I had to download a trial animation program for these, but this is great!!! Been on the computer all day...baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

For some reason my page is all screwy. I haven't played with the template today. Wierd.

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More PSP treasures!

Boy have I been busy with this new toy! I've greated a number of personalized images and a bunch of tubes. As soon as I figure out how to post them for download...I will do so.

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Playing with a new toy PSPX

Corel is offering it's latest in photo editing software, fully fuctioning trial for 30 days! I've tried it before but they are also offering a 50% slash in price if you buy it during the trial! I am so getting it! I have been playing with it and I have created two tubes (YAY!, a new seelmess background, and a couple other things. Lookie!!

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image hosting

New web ring for my new group on yahoo: Witting and Speaving. The "What?!" group you ask?

Glad you did!

Witting: The act of knitting while walking or in public.

Speaving: Weaving and spinning enthusiasts and other fiber artists.

Were can you find this wonderful group that is open to off topic conversation and free of the dreaded "Dictator Syndrom"?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wittingspeaving/

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Flight 93 The Movie

Oh man...

This movie is just sooooo intense. They did a good job on it because I felt as if I knew each and every one of the victoms...no HEROS, on the flight. I am sorry it happened, and I feel bad for those Muslins in the US who have to fight with the prejudice they now face-because of the acts of a few. I know their lives must be hard.

The ending was so-so sad and I had a hard time getting myself back from the desperate edge the movie takes you to. All I could do is cry. It's very sad.

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I am so sick...

Now usually I am a nice happy go lucky type of gal...but I've got some venting to do. I dispise, with every bone in my body, dictatorships-especially when it is displayed on group or forums. The most often and classic reply is "A lot of people are on digest..." BLAH-BLAH-BLAH, heard it before and still don't buy into it.

Give me a break...people on digest...if they are whinning about the volume, they are just whinners!!! You go on digest to lessen the volume-not bitch about it when on digest too!

And if I want to reply with a one liner, I WILL!

Cool beaners!

Thanks! or Thank you.

That's cool!

Any number of one liners I use on a daily basis.

Yet when I ask politely to be removed from being moderated because I had been a member for three months, I get some snot face grumpy butt giving me a licture on group edicate. THE FUCK WITH EDICATE! It's THE INTERNET you freaks, get over it. When I find myself apart of such a group, I list them on a blog (elsewhere) as such and warn others of it, and then I remove myself from it. I will not be a stiff neck because some group or forum owner wants to play Mommy with me. I have one, don't need another one.

Ahhhhhhhhh okay I feel better now. Now I know there are those looking for a fight so I've dissabled comments on this post.

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Completed Skien Winder! Finally.

Completed Skien Winder! Finally.
Originally uploaded by C4G.

We finally found a way to add a hand crank to the skien winder! We as in the BF and I. The hand crank is secured with a screw through a PVC endcap that runs into the dowel. I capped the other end just for aesthetics. It works really well (got some of my freshly dyed yarn on it). If you want to build one like it, all the basic parts you can see. You will also need a drill with a 1/2 inch hole borer and a 7/8 hardwood dowel for the center rod. A PVC pipe cutter makes the process go a lot smoother and quicker...I only found the gadget recently. Wish I had found it sooner as I was using a saw and a miter box to cut! Oh what a pain in the A**!!
I bought the PVC pipe at a resale shop for a quarter a piece for four feet ( I think I bought six...all they had at the time). The dowel was under a dollar. Screws we already had...but would cost under a buck at menards. I had to buy the 45 degree elbows x 2 at about .30, and I bought all the other joinings at the resale shop at .05 each. With the special PVC pipe cutter that comes too....a whole lot less than anything commercially bought...PVC or not. I like being thrifty, I kinda half to be.

Unitl next time...

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DESIGN YOURSELF � A $10.00 spinning wheel

DESIGN YOURSELF � A $10.00 spinning wheel

Thought this was an interesting read. This person has never build anything this complex before, yet she did it anyway. How inspiring! Now if I could only come up with a way to add a hand crank to my home-made skien winder...MMMmmmm....

YARN TALES: Michigan Fiber Festival ~ WOW

YARN TALES: Michigan Fiber Festival ~ WOW

Nice animals, nice novelty yarns.

Froggin Edition

Froggin Edition

Froggin made simplier if not less painful brought to you by knitty.com.

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Until next time...

Wool washing experiment

I wanted to see how much wieght was lost in the wool I purchased so I wieghed out exactly 3 ounces of fiber. It was just a good chunk of fiber.

I washed it, rinsed, and dried it as usual and when it was dried I wieghed it again.

It had only lost 3/4 of an ounce. It wieghted 2 1/4 when dry. Nice!

One tip the fiber shop lady, Susan, gave me was: the more crimp/waveys in the fleece fiber, the softer it is. And true to that she had me feel, with my eyes closed, two different fleeces. Once had less crimp than the other. It is true! Fleece with more crimp is softer and loftier than that with less crimp. One buying tip under the belt...more to come I am sure.

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Kool-Aid Dye Experiment #001

Kool-Aid Dye Experiment #001
Originally uploaded by C4G.

My first experiment in varigated dying using kool-aid. This is Orange and Lemonaid koolaid colors.

I spun a sample of silk and alpaca blended fiber (about 2 yards worth), wrapped around my hand, tied, then dipped each end into a concentrated mixture of each color (one packet to 6 ounces water).

Zapped in the microwave for 1 minute, took out, dunked again.

Zapped again, took out, filled with water (carefully), zapped again.

Then I took out the fully hot batch and let it sit for five minutes before rinsing in hot water and winding onto my home-made PVC skien winder. I love the varigation of orange and yellow!!

My Navajo Loom

Here is my finished Navajo loom. I am gonna have to re-warp it though because the cotton thread I used keeps stretching, making it impossible to weave. I also need to set it onto some sort of base because it tends to lean to the right and that loosens the warp too.

I purchased some warp thread and the lady at the shop gave me a few tips on how to keep the thread from stretching. :)

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Washing Raw wool fleece: FORGET THE HYPE

HJS Studio: Washing Raw Wool

I learned that there is nothing to be afraid of when washing raw wool. There is way too much pent-up hype over it. Our tap water averages around 150 degrees (F) so it is hot enough to rinse in. I scoured some really greasy wool today by boiling a tea kettle full of water and pouring that into a gallon bucket and filling it with hot tap water. When I first put the wool in, the water seemed to draw it into it. The key is not to agitate as you would want to do to wash something like linen. You PUSH the fiber down, but you push gently so as to not create suds and not to agitate too much. Other than, just don't go 160 degree water to 60 and everything will be fine. A temperature change of less than a hundred is of no consiquence and the wool will not felt.

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