#stringmagic

🎻✨ Celebrate the beauty of strings, the rhythm of the bow, and the soul-stirring music of the violin! On this National Violin Day, let's honor the instrument that bridges emotion and melody. 🎶💫

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

Remember this diagram? Swipe to reveal what it looks like now! I gotta say, despite taking the time to remind myself how to calculate circumference, I got lazy matching measurements to the math and ended up simplifying the design on the fly, and quite frankly, I'm glad I didn't spend too much time pulling hair over it. Next prototype will be more elaborate.⠀ 🌼⠀ Curious yet? Find me at #JoshuaTreeMusicFestival and you can help me "beta test" a workshop concept I'll be bringing to life this summer. I need 8(ish) volunteers for an exercise in "movement architecture" and team building! If I have enough time to make another of these mysterious flowers, we can have more than a dozen people helping play-test at the same time, but we'll see ... 😎⠀ #MakeSomethingMonday #FiberCraft #StringMagic

This has become my favorite project to work on, but it's difficult because it's comprised entirely of little leftover balls of yarn, and progress keeps coming to halt as I use up my scraps. I've been digging deep in the stash for every tiny ball I can find, but soon I have to put this aside until I have new scraps from new projects. #MakeSomethingMonday #FiberCraft #StringMagic

I had so many "intend to do's" and "should make more of's" for March, and in the big picture I don't mind plans getting rearranged as priorities shift, but holy hell March, did you have to be such a raging bitch about it?!?! ✨ Anyway, I've been working on a little something in some very spring colors, and it's been very satisfying. #MakeSomethingMonday #FiberCraft #StringMagic

I reverse engineered some yoga mat bags for @applesarereds and myself, we've both been meaning to put more time into our practice. It turned out to be a very mathematicaly pleasing pattern to crochet, all the stitch and row counts are all factors of 108 🕉 😜 #StringMagic #FiberCraft #MakeSomethingMonday