posted December 06, 2013 01:23 PM            

I'm so curious!
(I suppose I could have simply looked it up online, which I will probably do shortly, but what an amazing thing to know how to do!)

posted December 06, 2013 03:52 PM            

(Even better than the bathtub method, of which we are both so fond...)

I used to pretend that my Spinning Wheel was cruising the galaxies in search of happier places to be!

Want to go for a ride?

posted December 06, 2013 04:59 PM            

No, I don't raise sheep; had a llama and an Angora Goat (Mohair) but soon realized that I just wasn't cut out to be a rancher. Not unlike the bee method...

You can buy fibre, and it can be had for ten dollars a pound. Not dirty and unkempt, and in need of hundreds of dollars worth of equipment, time, effort and frustration to prepare for use. Not to mention the commitment factor and the feeding bills...

Spinning Wheels can be pricy, but I have NEVER regretted the investment. A swift and a ball-winder are handy, but not necessary:
http://www.woolery.com/Store/pc/Swifts-Skeinweinders-c194.htm

Now, getting the right Spinning Wheel is important. I have seen some that wear out the foot!

Mine is a Kromski Polonaise, and it was love at first sight.

Funny, I drove by an Alpaca this morning and wondered if they had any fibre for sale.

Synchronicities...

posted December 06, 2013 10:42 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:
Basic knitting is easy as pie. It's a good meditation as well.

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posted December 07, 2013 03:55 PM            

Then you put the needle through one stitch, wrap the thread around it and pull it through.

Basically.

When I was a teen, I took it in Home Ec, and was bored to tears. Then when I started Spinning, I looked to the Aran Sweaters, with their Celtic Knotwork designs, and decided THAT was what I would do with my wool.

So I did.

That is NOT a good meditation, because it is a complete need to focus on the pattern and count the stitches and read the design.

Now, that was difficult.

Just a basic sock recipe is mindless; like Spinning, so you can just do it and put your mind on whatever matters.

posted December 08, 2013 02:14 PM            

I get a lot of that type of feeling when I'm out in the yard taking care of the garden (it requires digging up a lot of big rocks with a pickaxe). It's also super meditative in its own odd way...

Unfortunately, I think we have to leave our happy little mountain home and move to an apartment in Arizona (far from where we are now). If it's possible to feel apprehension, sadness, and excitement at the same time, that's how I feel.

Transiting Uranus square Pluto and Saturn for me, and T Uranus opposite my husband's natal Uranus. So I guess that's how it goes. Less stressful job offer (as opposed to the soul sucking job he's been at in order to afford our home here), and there it is.

No beekeeping or knitting for me for the next couple of years...
At least I can take my aloe vera plant with me, though. She'll be so happy there!

Sorry to get sidetracked, but I'm kind of blown away by Uranus's sudden way of forcing a change in direction right now, and I don't want to talk about it in the other threads.

posted December 08, 2013 05:08 PM            

Uranus has His Way with me, too; don't feel alone in this...

posted December 09, 2013 01:17 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:
Oh Sweetheart, whoa!

Uranus has His Way with me, too; don't feel alone in this...

(Probably the only thing that keeps me from my Inner Sanctum Shell; if Truth be told, but I just hate it!)

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Thanks.

posted December 10, 2013 02:43 AM            

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Originally posted by Yin:
I love this topic but I'm afraid this forum is not the right place for it. Not sure where to move it to either. Randall?

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BECAUSE this topic was posted under Health and Healing, I thought the general SHAPE would be edging towards there.....

Thank you for your modi-dilligence...

Want to add:
.... Yin, I noticed you had done some sort of INDEXING of topics in Health & Healing a while ago, and I highly recommended that particular post as a template for something someone was trying to set up in the asteroid forums.... (Good work!)

posted December 10, 2013 10:04 AM            

So, for Yin and Randall if he happens to look in here, I do have some clarification in mind.

I absolutely associate making things with natural ingredients by hand (like candles, with aromatherapy, or salves and ointments, or homemade toothpaste without fluoride, etc) with health and healing.

I would consider removing the toxic chemicals from our immediate environment (our clothes, soaps, etc) first and foremost on my priority list as far as my own health and healing. Ditto for organic gardening, but I think there might be a gardening forum here, I'm not sure? It seems more about the environment, so the forums can get kind of jumbled sometimes, I think. (No offense intended there.)

posted December 10, 2013 04:35 PM            

My son just quit his job in carpentry because it just killed him to strap those nail-bags on every morning...

He had been doing that since before he left High School.

When his Saturn Return came, I supported his Vocational Redirection whole-heartedly, even though it might not be in my own best interest as a mother.

If you truly love someone, sometimes you make sacrifices.

posted December 10, 2013 06:14 PM            

We want out of our current indentured servitude, but we just don't know how to make that happen. I have a suspicion Uranus and Pluto will help, but...how they will "help" is yet to be determined.