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Rough Guide to Franklin
I Can Be Bought
I Can't Shut Up
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March
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- Three Out of Four Readers...
- Celebrity Smackdown IV: Women's History Edition
- The Journey of a Thousand Miles...
- Aristocracy Fixation
- Dolores Responds
- Sense and Sensibility and Sheep
- I Used to Knit
- Spin Doctor
- Brenda Dayne Regrets
- Art Crawl
- Top o' the Mornin'
- Girls on Top
- Cover Girl
- Bang Bang You're Dead
- A Night Out
- Technology Is Insulting Me
- Spinning, A Report.
- Drinks with Dolores
- Meet Dolores
- Stein Narrowly Defeats Parker
- Panopticon Celebrity Smackdown II
- Spindle Notes
- Dear Marie
- Medal Mailbag
- Rick Takes It on the Chin
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Quite Finished
- Tom's Watch Cap
- Noro Scarf
- Brown Socks
- Maltese Fisherman's Hat
- Sheep in the Meadow Baby Jacket
- Flower Basket Shawl
- Mom's Mobius
- Tulip Baby Jacket
- Altar Cloth V.2.0
- Four Wishes for Abigail (Christening Shawl)
- Liberation Lime Socks
- Littlest Democrat Sweater
- Impromptu Two-Color Hats
- Fear-of-Cabling Hat
- Baby Surprise Jacket
- Toy Mice
- First Socks
- Altar Cloth
- Glencora Baby Shawl
- Orenberg Barbie Shawl
- Hot for Teacher Wrap (Ruana)
- Baby H Goodies
- Seneca Sweater
- London Beanie
- Amsterdam Scarf
- Edo Scarf
- Imperialist Bunny Hat
- Polar Princess Hat
- Teddy Bear
- Susan's Toque
- C's Tweedy Scarf
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44 comments:
You. Must. Write. A. Book.
Self-publish on Cafe Press or find an actual publisher, I don't care, as long as it churns out something I can buy and read. You are so funny. :)
Coffee all over the keyboard and monitor now, and my children think I have finally lost it- that was hilarious! EVERYONE's first spindling looks like that, or worse. You weren't spinning directly off Delores, were you?
LOL!! Way too funny.
Is this a prelude to the soon coming podcast? Poor Brenda...
Ok, so maybe you can't spin, but you can sure write! I agree. Write Franklin -I'll read!
Perfect! (And looks just like mine.)
I know you like to spin a yarn, but do you have to be so literal?
Just sprayed milk over the keyboard!
So much like my first attempts.
"They" tell me it gets easier!
Ella.
I doubt he was spinning off Dolores unless she cards herself daily...
Has the wheel arrived yet? That will really help you smooth out your single.
Cut yourself some slack and allow yourself a learning curve. Nobody spins perfect yarn first time out. Even experienced spinners crank out a few skeins of stuff that's only good for tying up the tomato plants. I think you're doing splendidly.
If I get to Chicago (dates, Franklin; gimme dates) we can spend some time on it.
Ted beat me to it. Stop being such a perfectionist. I spun Crayola Biggies and Thick 'N' Thin when I started.
And then I knit them into bunnies and sent them to people to amuse myself and torture, I mean, thank, my mentors.
And the fact that there is an ooh! ooh! fun! pretty! part in amongst the oh shit parts means that you are pretty much doomed to be a spinner.
Think of all the laceweight you'll eventually have, honey. You'll get it. Just not, you know, in the first five minutes.
I'm getting whiplash from how quickly Lee Ann went from 'enablee' to 'enabler'. But between the two of you, I really wanna go home and get out the drop spindle Right Now.
You are doomed, Franklin. I don't see you giving up on spinning. Your efforts look very much like mine--my daughter and I are both beginning spinners. She knit a lovely ear warming head band from the single she spun (not enough for a hat!) and it looks great, even if the single wasn't perfect. What is perfect, anyway?
Consider yourself "hooked"! You're doing just fine.
I just ordered a spindle and it's all your fault Franklin!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Dear sweet creeping zombie jesus, Franklin will you PLEASE put that on a tee shirt? Stationary? Something?
*clutches lilies*
*dies*
It is especially funny to me because last night I picked up my spindle after MONTHS of not, and well. Er. Lets just say that I can relate.
How dare you put something so perfectly funny and easy to relate to on your blog where it must not be copied. Now we'll all be sending EVERYONE to your site just to see that. I hope you have a bandwidth pipe you can drive a Mac truck through. MyGAWD that's funny!
I'm picturing you spinning day and night all wild-eyed and laughing maniacally. Do I need to go back to Chicago and take that thing out of your hand?
Please tell You-Know-Who that I'd appreciate not receiving any more pics of a mature sheep in a thong. She doesn't get that I don't swing that way. I prefer to date my own species, thank you.
Tim
I sure hope spinning yarn gets easier...mine looks like crapola.
Isn't there a bar on Halstead & Belmont called Spin? Is this what they're doing in there?
TO
What kathleen said.
I'm dying here! *huge, laughing grin*
(btw, you know what that first yarn is great for? Cat toys and felting. Truly.)
that was awesome! you're a genius!
i hate just joining the chorus, but in this case i can't resist. ;-)
xoxo
While I don't spin (yet), I'm glad to see that the finale of this season's Project Runway affected someone else as well! (Man, Chloe was fine, but Daniel V. should've still won!)
Very funny. Blessedly, I don't spin yet, but I admire those that have the gift for it.
I laughed so hard I broke one of my sock needles.Thankyouverymuch.
Yes, PLEASE put that on something!!! And you've also inspired me to dig out my spindle . . . . again!
Oh my, oh my gawd, you should be ashamed of yourself for causing an old lady to laugh so hard she......well never mind.
You HAVE GOT TO PUT THIS ON A T~SHIRT!!!! You would sell a freakin bunch of them for sure. And I would be the first to buy one!!
Thanks for making my day :-)
Remember, if it's really lumpy, call it "art" and charge twice as much.
I can think of a couple of commercial yarneries who make big bucks on this theory.
What can I say that hasn't already been said... you, Dear One, are hysterical.
Franklin, when can we pre-order your book? *LOL*
That's great yarn - "them's not lumps, them's texture!"
There is no yarn that cannot (as long as it pretty much hangs together) be used as accent shots in weaving. I wove throw pillow tops out of my early efforts - it is now really classy pillows.
I agree that this picture needs to be put on a t-shirt or, better yet, a canvas tote so that I can drag my spinning with me in a bag I will read again and again. Thanks go to whoever sent me your link - I'm glad I found you!
This graphic would make great note cards. A wonderful antidote to the rather trite note cards with mulitcolored yarn photo's.
Kathleen, you're brilliant!
Cafepress. Tshirts. I would buy one, I care not how much it would cost, nor the ridiculous exchange rate from $AU to $US!
*beg*
*drool*
:)
You are nothing short of brilliant.
Oh my! A friend of mine got me to buy a drop spindle recently, and so I SOOOOOO get this.
Thanks for helping me feel normal in this endeavor, rather than like a complete moron :)
Bwahahahaha! Excellent. :)
THANK YOU for encapsulating so perfectly what learning to spin with a drop-spindle feels like!
Well, that is just perfect. I have been a wheel spinner for a bizillion years but got a spindle "just for fun"...I have been asking my buddies what the point of this fiddly stuff is but then I guess that it will something nice to put into your purse, Franklin. When I wrote to people asking why they do this to themselves, someone brought up this post and well, I see what/who I was missing. I am ready for this illustration to be on your doodad page. Yes, I would buy a tee shirt (sigh).
Shoot! You heard me when I was spinning, I knew my house was wired since that incident with the FEDs...heheheh
Oh how we have all been there!
If you are learning all alone, though, get a copy of Melda Montgomery's video on drop spinning. Victorian Videos. That's how I learned after creating my first 3 ugly baby skeins. From any good fiber source, including The Woolery (dot com)
Franklin, did that wool come from you-know-who, while she was asleep?
That is soooo funny. Just took my first lesson in spindling Sunday, and after 4 hours, we decided I had a flair for it. Came home and tried alone, and mine makes yours look absolutely perfect. Now I can't get my spindle to behave, of course it isn't me... I wanna tee shirt too! ... pretty please! And a book would be hilarious too. ;-)
Delurking- you are hysterically funny! Everything Lee Ann said- you're totally doomed to be a spinner. Having that "Spin Doctor"sketch on a t-shirt or tote bag would be awsome!
oh snap, were you in my living room last night?
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