Geek.Farm.Life

Comment by John G

February 18, 2007 @ 12:10 pm

Glad to have Misty back again. Even though we are not spinners or anything, it is nice to know how it is done and the terms. It could come in handy on Jeopardy.

Comment by India

February 18, 2007 @ 1:54 pm

I REALLY AM LMAO at your comments about my accent ;0) You should hear me laughing about the way people say Glasgow! tee hee - great that we can make folk laugh, just by opening our mouths !
India

Comment by India

February 18, 2007 @ 2:00 pm

BTW, Misty, I tried to register at your blog, but the passowrd didn’t come through - maybe it didn’t understand my accent ;0)
Actually, we have some North Americans come to our knitting group, and sometimes I get them to say ‘Edinburgh’ just to cheer me up!
India

Comment by India

February 18, 2007 @ 2:06 pm

Me - again! looking forward to your cheese walkthrough, Andrew - I really want to have a go at making that real easy cheese you were talking about - hint, hint

Comment by andrew

February 19, 2007 @ 6:25 am

Hey John G, India!

I’ll make sure to have Misty say Edinburgh on the next podcast. ;) I’ll get a really simple cheese recipe for the next cheese podcast in March. I promised to do one a month, so we’ll have to wait till next month. I have to keep you coming back eh? Plus I don’t have any milk at the moment anyways. ;)

Comment by India

February 20, 2007 @ 6:14 pm

YOu guys are such a tease!
India

Comment by misty

February 21, 2007 @ 8:17 am

LOL I will be happy to say “Edinburgh” though I am sure I can’t roll the R properly!

India, I emailed you from my blog. Did you get the email? Let me know so that I can diagnose an issue with email if there is one.

Comment by India

February 22, 2007 @ 1:46 pm

Hi Misty - got an email from you, and another one today. tried to respond to today’s but Postmaster couldn’t send it.
India

Comment by Kathy

February 26, 2007 @ 8:38 am

Hey guys! Congrats on the one year anniversary!! You all do good work :-)

Comment by Marijah

March 21, 2007 @ 10:09 am

I’ve got a spinning question for Misty. You mentioned in the Podcast that you sometimes have to pick bits of straw & stuff out of the wool as you go. I learned to spin more than 20 years ago & really haven’t done it again since but I do seem to recall having to card the wool first, before I was allowed to spin it, to make sure all the bits of debris were out of the wool.

Since I don’t know much of the theory behind all this, I was wondering why you don’t card the wool?

Thanks! And thanks to both of you for livening up my commute!

Comment by misty

March 21, 2007 @ 12:41 pm

Hi Marijah!

I send my raw wool away to be washed, carded, and processed into roving or combed top. :) If you have more than one fleece a year, it’s really too much work to clean it yourself (IMHO). Thank goodness for wool mills!

Comment by Marijah

March 30, 2007 @ 9:06 am

Ah - I didn’t realize the mill carded it as well. I must’ve missed that.

Thanks Misty for the clarification!