LittleIzumi Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 As a hip 26-year-old, I have gone through the medicated birth to natural birth to home birth, ramen & Fruit Loops to mostly vegetarian homecooked food, with babywearing and cloth diapering thrown in. (Not to say anything one way or the other about any of these except that I went from more typical modern ideas to more granola, old-fashioned ideas.) However. This stuff doesn't hold a candle to the current progression. I learned to knit about two years ago. Then I learned to spin on a drop spindle. Then I bought a spinning wheel. Now, as a 26-year-old, I am sitting here on TWTM, carding raw wool into rolags as I browse the forum. I bought the wool I'm carding in raw fleece form from a sheep farm & cleaned it myself. I will then spin it, dye it, and knit it. Am I all modern & hip or what? :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amyrjoy Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 :lol: Awesome! Old fashioned is in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicAnn Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I am exactly the same way...only a year younger! :) Just today I was looking at drop spindles! I've really embraced the old-fashioned, more wholesome way of life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguistmama Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 You're the woman!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetMissMagnolia Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 awesome what fun!!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer3141 Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 We need to be friends so you can take my angora bunny wool. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 As a hip 26-year-old, I have gone through the medicated birth to natural birth to home birth, ramen & Fruit Loops to mostly vegetarian homecooked food, with babywearing and cloth diapering thrown in. (Not to say anything one way or the other about any of these except that I went from more typical modern ideas to more granola, old-fashioned ideas.) However. This stuff doesn't hold a candle to the current progression. I learned to knit about two years ago. Then I learned to spin on a drop spindle. Then I bought a spinning wheel. Now, as a 26-year-old, I am sitting here on TWTM, carding raw wool into rolags as I browse the forum. I bought the wool I'm carding in raw fleece form from a sheep farm & cleaned it myself. I will then spin it, dye it, and knit it. Am I all modern & hip or what? :lol::lol::lol: As a 30+ year knitter, I bow down to your greatness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mothersweets Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 You are one rockin' mama! My 22 and 23 yo dds can spin and knit - heck, my 22yo asked for and received 3 Border Leicester sheep last year for her birthday. I'd love to see what you knit up with it! You ARE hip, cool, and groovy! Way to go! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DianeW88 Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I think it is VERY cool. I volunteer at Heritage Park in Salt Lake (as a pioneer woman...wearing the old-fashioned clothes and everything), so I have carded and spun a lot of wool over the past 9 years. It's really fun, and for us....it's fresh off the sheep. Baaa. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleIzumi Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 You are one rockin' mama! My 22 and 23 yo dds can spin and knit - heck, my 22yo asked for and received 3 Border Leicester sheep last year for her birthday. I'd love to see what you knit up with it! You ARE hip, cool, and groovy! Way to go! :) Dude. I want sheep for my birthday. :w00t: The dds were carding with me on dog brushes :lol:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Dude. I want sheep for my birthday. :w00t: The dds were carding with me on dog brushes :lol:. My friend up in Oregon has a couple of goats. Not sure what kind. She also spins her own wool with a spinning wheel her mil gave her. Very cool! We went to a Society for Creative Anachronism gathering a few months ago. We watched a woman with a drop spindle. My dd wants one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Greetings from a fellow 26 year old, LDS, mama who also finds herself going back in time! My husband has been nudging me into learning how to spin wool. We should hang out. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleIzumi Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Greetings from a fellow 26 year old, LDS, mama who also finds herself going back in time! My husband has been nudging me into learning how to spin wool. We should hang out. ;) :D If UT wasn't such a drive I totally would. Maybe if dh picks a grad school in VA.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunD Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Canning homegrown veggies isn't too popular among the hip 25-year-old pregnant moms of two here. What can I say; I'm a rebel! :D That whole process sounds awesomely interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Then I learned to spin on a drop spindle. Then I bought a spinning wheel. Now, as a 26-year-old, I am sitting here on TWTM, carding raw wool into rolags as I browse the forum. I bought the wool I'm carding in raw fleece form from a sheep farm & cleaned it myself. I will then spin it, dye it, and knit it. Am I all modern & hip or what? :lol::lol::lol: How did you learn this? I'd love to expose Diva to it, I think she'd love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleIzumi Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 How did you learn this? I'd love to expose Diva to it, I think she'd love it. Youtube videos by afranquemont and/or her downloadable vide (it's also a book but I prefer video), Respect the Spindle, as far as using a drop spindle goes. The Youtube is almost everything that's in the paid video, though, and the Youtube is free! :D The carding wool is also from Youtube, lol. The spinning on a wheel, well, I've seen videos but I have a local spinning group to help, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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