brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her)

My 11 year old just called my pottery wheel an “antique 3D printer”

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my “not the gestapo” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt and if you don’t stop asking them, i’ll have you disappeared.

dang it! I probably was off running an errand. I'll be back next year tho!

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

Turkish spindle closeup, showing a wooden X with a small amount of maroon wool yarn wrapped around the intersection of the two wooden bars

Went to MD sheep and wool today and picked up my first Turkish spindle. Went with a Snyder as I'd heard only good things. @senesced.bsky.social I feel like you'd approve

come back tomorrow and say hi!!! I'm working in the Clemes & Clemes booth. someone brought by a Snyder and I showed them how to use it today 🥰

a person sits in a poofy red and tan gingham arm chair. a support spinning bowl carved from a block of wood into the fates sits on the left arm of the chair, and a white arm with a black beetle tattoo holds up a wooden support spindle with a pika carved into it inside the bowl. the person is wearing a white linen shirt and blue jeans, and a full support spindle (carved into a hobbit house) and a ball of grey wool roving sits in the person's lap. the floor is aged hardwood, the scene appears cozy and inviting.

baby's first navajo churro spin. the grower had their flock milled into delightfully rustic carded sliver w/ just a touch of lanolin: my favorite! I'm copying @just-raeli.bsky.social by making this a spindle project. she may have lapped me on knitting ginsan, but it may finally be my time to shine 🌟

she is, in fact, the best thing

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Bev, a German shepherd and golden retriever mix, lays comfortably on a bed covered with a blue comforter. the foot of the bed has a folded up rainbow scrappy crochet blanket, and Bev's face is comfortably laid up on the blanket. she has tan eyebrows adoringly lifted, and she is looking at the camera.

bev wants you to know that there are still good things

perfect, while @tangledstarlight.bsky.social raids your handspun, I will take advantage of the distraction and raid your spindles 😈

HELLO FLO

a basket full of charcoal coopworth wool locks, light grey Corriedale cross wool likes, tan tussah silk, and brown, green, and blue dyed leicester longwool roving set against a beige quilted backdrop

a basket of brown, green, and blue dyed Leicester longwool carded sliver and a heathered grey batt of Corriedale cross wool, coopworth wool, and tussah silk

mid process fizzing carded sliver off of a Clemes and Clemes drum carder. the carded sliver is heathered, with the cool tones of the dyed Leicester longwool and the undyed wool locks that were carded into it

a basket of beautifully carded and dizzed blended wool, which will eventually be spun into yarn and then knit into a pair of gloves

a friend had some dyed Leicester longwool that she wanted to eventually spin (with the end goal of making gloves for her partner), but she knew it had to be blended and didn't have a drum carder

v proud of the results!

50% Leicester longwool
25% Corriedale cross
21% Coopworth
4% tussah silk

🧶🐑

a yellow modular top whorl drop spindle from akerworks is FULL of heathered grey single spun yarn. the spindle is held by a white person's left hand, and the background is a blurry and chaotic assortment of spinning accoutrements

I am furiously trying to catch up to my students in time for session two of my intro to drop spindles class on thursday

we're using a kit from @akerworks.bsky.social and it's truly such a joy -- it has everything newbies need to spin & ply (not an ad, just happy customer over here)

a small glass bowl is filled with water slowly being pigmented by the ink from the fountain pen nibs and cartridges that rest within it

a small glass bowl sits with opaque water and a few visible fountain pen components -- the water is being used to flush the pen parts, and the ink has weasled its way out of the pens and into the water

a white porcelain sink is speckled with green, pink, red, purple, and blue ink drops

I can't send snail mail if all of my pens are dry AND snail mail is a vital tether between me & my far flung people

feelings of isolation and despair therefore lead me to cleaning pens

drop me a dm if you want an inky love note

you really ought to read this.

this is the chaotic patriot energy I demand to see in this country

may we all mimic the screeching calls of the bald eagle until our elected leaders listen to us 🦅

brb quitting my anxiety inducing job and booking airfare

I volunteer as buddy!

pls join tazhi and I in our handspun fleece cream cardi along

a mega cake of black fleece yarn sits atop a closed laptop computer ready to be swatched. next to it is a yellow hydroflask coffee thermos with a green frog sticker that reads "stressed by doing my best"

two mega skeins of black fleece wool are held above a carpeted floor with a maple castle style spinning wheel in the background

we are immediately obsessed with the cream cardi by @aliciaplum.bsky.social so we are swatching with reckless abandon

this yarn is a traditional 3-ply spun on my Schacht Matchless and is descended from Tara, a CVM/Rambouillet cross from Sister Sheep CO

Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him Pro-Israel Jewish groups targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, days before ICE agents arrested him.

As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.

block the accounts you see posting stuff you don't like! I find that works well enough... usually

there's speculation that selecting it actually shows you MORE like it, because you're more likely to engage with polarizing content

we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time

Bev the German shepherd mix oversees her owner as she sorts through locks from a CVM cross fleece. a mitered square scrappy blanket makes a guest appearance draped over the couch

a basket of flicked CVM locks ready to be carded into squishy batts

Opal's fleece has the prettiest gradient of colors -- CVM/Rambouillet/Wensleydale/BFL magic 🐑

do we share a brain

you're definitely ready!! this is a great project to do an intentional spin for

I love this vibe for a musselburgh!!