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 Post subject: Fibre addict
PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:37 pm 
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Im addicted to fibre.. I really really am.

Today Ive actually sat down and worked out how much fibre (unspun fibre) ive bought since I started spinning..
1200 grams worth!

and I think by the end of the week I'll more..

Im doomed lol. I need to do more spinning.. and then knit with it LOL.

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 Post subject: Re: Fibre addict
PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:49 pm 
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:lol: It's abit like me and my wool stash! It keeps growing :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Fibre addict
PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:07 pm 
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sezo wrote:

Today Ive actually sat down and worked out how much fibre (unspun fibre) ive bought since I started spinning..
1200 grams worth!



a mere drop in the ocean, multiply that by 10 or so an you might start catching up with me! ;) and that's only the stuff I have hidden in 'plain sight', if you add the fleeces lurking in the loft :shock: .......well, if you're doomed I dread to think what I am! :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Fibre addict
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Jo - your someone who I aspire to be like, with all the fibre in your house, your heating bill must be really low coz your house is so well insulated ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Fibre addict
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just read your post over on UK spinners, hope you get wheel up and running soon so you can make a dent in your stash, good excuse then to buy more to replace it :D

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 Post subject: Re: Fibre addict
PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:56 am 
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1200g sounds quite reasonable. You definitely need quite a lot more, so that you can be properly doomed. After all, in for a penny in for a pound, might as well do the job properly etc. - Oooh, excellent one - "might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb" - now that's very appropriate!
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I am currently looking for a job "so I can buy a spinning wheel and some more fibre, and maybe some more yarn..."

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 Post subject: Re: Fibre addict
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Erm I have at least 5 fleeces around the house in various states of cleaning plus lots of other fibre that I really will get around to spinning up, but I don't want to just spin them without a project in mind. I've already got quite enough yarn in stash & am running out of places to keep it :oops:

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 Post subject: Re: Fibre addict
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I prmise that you will look back at that post in a year's time and giggle - 1200 grams will seem like nothing, honestly! :lol: :lol:
I'm at the stage of selling a lot of my handspun so it doesn't hang around long, but I must have gone through kilos and kilos of fibre in the 14 months I've had my wheel :oops: (I'm all the happier for it though!!)
Generally I only have about a kilo of stashed fibre around at a time.. though that sometimes drops to a meagre 200-300g :shock: then I get worried about running out and dye more! :lol:

What are we like eh. There's not a lot that can be more satisfying that spinning a beautiful skein though! (Surely?)

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