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[tanaise]

Saw Numbers. no clear view of the ring. BOOOO. There was some impressive sparkle, though.

(maybe next season?) Also, Gaius Baltar was the bad guy. I totally missed that since Gaius = hot and this bad guy was basically Charlie Manson.

I tried my spindle finally for the first time. It is meh. It wobbles and doesn't spin very easily. I now need to find a new one. A bottom.

I can not find a way to suggest panels to Dragoncon. Dear Dragoncon, I hate you.

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[podling]

I would think that to suggest panels you need to join the lj community or whatever for the track you want to suggest for.

Spindles!

[fingle.livejournal.com]

One of our Ravelry knitting peeps makes beautiful spindles!

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5140118

Jesh is terrifically funny and cool, and I am actually about to purchase one of her spindles myself, just to show my support, as opposed to any desperate need to spin. We're about to acquire a spinning wheel, so I'm going to jump on the bandwagon in a small way, then maybe someday I'll get to use the big wheel!

Re: Spindles!

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Those are GORGEOUS, but I need a bottom whorl, which apparently no one makes. (I don't hate top whorls as much as I could, but they're top heavy and wobble, and l like bottom whorl better, as it's what I was taught on.)

[fingle.livejournal.com]

This from a contact on Ravelry...

"Jesh is starting to make some lovely bottom whorls….I saw ‘em. I think she’s still refining them.

Schacht and Louet make basic bottom whorls; in fact, the Schacht is designed to be ‘Hi-Lo’, useable as a high or low whorl. The Loopy Ewe carries those."


Schacht Spindles (pretty!)

http://www.schachtspindle.com/our_products/spindles.php


Louet spindles via The Loopy Ewe...

http://www.theloopyewe.com/browse/spinning-wheels-supplies/drop-spindles/


I also saw a reference to Bossie Spindles, by these folks:

http://www.journeywheel.com/

Photos of "Bossie" spindles on Flickr... OMG!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/bosworthspindles/pool/with/3262909411/


I'll let you know if I hear from Jesh! Or write her via her Etsy store! Maybe she's ready to go on the bottom spindles...

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I decided that for now, I will get this: http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=16462801 which is a nice looking basic one with pretty roving.

If I love it, I can then move on to different sizes and fancier ones, and possibly top ones. And the Louet one I have that's a top whorl is the evil one--from using Jodi's I think it's too light and off balance, so I don't like that one at all. I may try top whorls again if I like spinning enough, but for now, I'll try a nice basic thing and see how that works. (I love the look of the Butterfly girl ones, for example, so I might get one from her once I try more.)

[cissa.livejournal.com]

No- close-up shots of The Ring were tragically lacking. Woez! :)