It’s not that I haven’t been making things . . . At JTMF I got out my watercolors for the first time in ages and worked on two different paintings. - I’ve made little daily alters lately with crystals and incense and colors corresponding with the day of the week. It’s simple, but nice. - I made an impact on the dance floor at Kava Lounge the other night. Unfortunately, I was only there for about an hour and wanted to stay longer, but it was very much a Cinderella kind of night, and my head was on my pillow at 11:59pm. - Despite all this, I feel like I’ve lost my making mojo. Nothing I knit or crochet makes sense. The two paintings still sit as works in progress. And let’s not even talk about my writing. It’s a thing that happens now and then, but it feels especially ill timed right now. - So I walked myself over to our storage unit, and got out my drop spindle that I haven’t touched in about three years. At the time I put it away, I had just barely begun to learn and felt that what I knew did not qualify as “knowing how to spin” but that there was optimistic potential. - Last time I had my spindle out, I spent lots of time on YouTube trying to get a sense of what my hands needed to be doing, and generally feeling like I didn’t really get it. This time I said fuck it, and just began slowly pre-drafting bits at a time with the spindle jammed between my knees, and then short wondrous moments of flight as I would dance the spindle around in a awkward dance of very tight twist, then some accidental back-spin, then another wobbly whirl as more fiber fed the twist, then grab the spindle with my knees again as I wrangle more fiber into a little cloud stream to send spilling through my fingers and down the twisting fall to the spindle dancing shakily, and I kept on doing this until it was dark and I was mostly going by rhythm and feel. - Still not sure where my mojo is, and I certainly didn’t magically get better at making the yarn, it’s still lumpy in some places and over-twisted in others, but it is strong, and soft, and I made it. - #MakeSomethingMonday #FiberCraft #StringMagic #dropspindle #spinning
