In September 2016 I made a braided horse hair bracelet for a friend with tail hairs from her three horses.
There are other jewelry makers that glue the ends into metal caps. I don’t trust glue to hold, so prefer to pair glue with a mechanical join as well, in this case crimping down a wire wrap on the ends of the braids. When I do this again, I will do a different clasp, because the clip is difficult to get on, but easy to accidentally pop open.
I wanted a travel case for my tiny Turkish style spindle, so went digging through my cupboards. I found a stainless steel can cozy that was just the right size, but didn’t have a lid.
I measured the space and used my laser cutter to cut and engrave a piece of thin birch plywood. I sealed the wood with modge podge (white glue), which also holds the circle in place.
The can fits nicely in the bottle pocket on the side of my purse and fits a handful of wool and the spindle inside.
And yes, I really did pull it out and do some spinning waiting in the line at grocery store!
Squee! I ordered a femto spindle from Turtle Made on Etsy, which is a 3D printed Turkish style spindle that is teeny tiny!
With a spindle this tiny, the obvious choice is to spin as thin as possible. I have some green dyed Corridale mix wool from AnnieWhere that I used to get started.
The spindle works amazingly well for something so small. I plan on finding a case for it and have it be my emergency spinning kit. The emergency would be if I am out and about without a project! Or need to meditatively spin anytime, anywhere.
This is a Texas “snow” drift. My weather app says we received 10 inches of snow. I think that maybe, if this were small fluffy flakes instead of ice pellets, it might be 10”, but it is not. We have maybe 2 inches overall of hard pack. Yuck.
Yes, that is a solid mound of ice, after I took the picture, I tested.
I deliberately put a basket in the closet as a cat bed. I found Thor the cat in the basket and he looked like I caught his paw in the cookie jar. Silly kitty.
We are hunkered down for the storm. It has been raining ice. Yuck.
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