[Kilala Mikal]

Here's the Sampler I'm making.

[Vincent]

Awh. x3 Sounds like a nice whole family blanket then haha.

I've never seen that. xD But if something interesting enough catches my attention while I'm doing something un-interesting , then yeah my attention can shift pretty easily. xD
Ah. xD Well yeah it doens't seem like it's all that bad. Only problem is again, motivation. XD But first and foremost you need to order what things you wanna do in what order. XD

That's pretty awesome. Although probably a market thing that makes people wanna buy hundreds of yarn that just end up sitting around. XD
Though one CAN just look at all the tags at the store instead. x:

Haha. XD I couldn't get away with it.
But yeah I know of a few things that are amassing such a big public interest that I'm just like 'meh' on. XD (although nothings coming to mind at the moment besides games like call of duty or skyrim or whatnot)

Ah. :c yeah I hate when things are time consuming and you just don't wanna do it and just... /sprawls out on floor again all lazily. XD
psh. xD I think you only used the word 'mane' once so you should be good. XD I actually didn't notice you mispelling it. X:

Sounds like about average . XD When you're busy with one kid the other kids over there doing something.

Dx you havn't?! do it do it do it. D<
/coaches

[Vincent]

Awh cross stichies yay. XD Looks pretty nice. Nice computer and bear. o_o' you got skills. XD

[Kilala Mikal]

Yups. :)

THIS is what I'm talking about, lol.
And again you are correct. I've gotta get in touch with my SIL and see what she's doing this weekend. Maybe she and I can get together and have a squawk-fest as le hubs calls it. XD

I'm pretty sure it is. Probably to encourage people to buy their brand of yarn. And usually they advertise what pattern is on the back of the wrapper, so it makes it relatively easy to pick which skein to buy (if you that's how you're buying at least).

I'm guilty of Call of Duty. My hubs was seriously hooked on it, and he spent most of his off time playing, and it got to where I was feeling left out, so I "picked up the sticks". I really enjoy it now though. At first, it freaked me out, lol. I had such paranoia issues with the whole "someone's out to get you thing". It gave me some pretty weird dreams. Especially when I started playing Zombies. XD

I went back and fixed 'em. o~o I used to be a grammar nazi back in high school, but now only blatant errors bother me... and it's usually when I make them. Which tends to be late at night when I'm kinda sleep deprived, lol.

And yup again, lol. Although they do have their tag-team moments... ._. Evil little gremlins... XD

I know, I know, I know! I just want it to look really pretty, and I want as much AU as I can for posting it... so when I make the posts, I want to just copy and paste from my word processor so I can be like *BAM!* *~prettifuls~*. Plain text quests are just not for me, and I don't want to spend a shitton of time in thread editing... That and I've been lazy. Before she headed off to Japan, Faux was on me about it, too.

And in regards to your second message:
Thanks. ^///^

[Vincent]

Ah. xD
Lmao. A squawk fest? XD that's an...interesting term...
Sounds like a fun little get-together though haha. x3

Ah. yeah. XD That's good though. I guess it DOES make you choose their brand over others since really, what can you do to yarn to make it different o.o'

Ah. XD wow. I can imagine. ;~; I sorry.
I never played it though but I does not seem like my type of game. x: I don't really see why people are all nuts over it. I CAN see why they're all nuts over Grand Theft Auto. A game to vent,or do unlawful things without consequences, etc. XP Still kinda stupid...
What's Zombies? o.o'

Haha. XD I'm... a half-grammer nazi I guess. I only make errors when I don't know how to spell something, which sadly comes often. XD Well for more extravegant words that for SOME reason I want to use. XP lmao.

Haha. xD I know right.
SPEAKING OF YARN. If/once they're old enough, if you have a stair thing in the hallway, or something you can attach yarn to across the hall, you can do like a little laser-tag thing with red yarn for the kids O: where they gotta try to walk thru the yarn without touching it. XD

Lmao. XD You don't have to make it 'extravegant'. You can just go 'plain' with items you want and list them, then whenever you're feeling up to it, pretty it up. :3 Tis what I did.
Oh. XD Well. Idk. OH I can try to make a layout I guess whenever I find free time, and all you gotta do is put in the items? XP

haha. x3

[Kilala Mikal]

Yup. Hens squawking, lol. It really is fun though. :D

Different companies make different types of yarn. Some are made of cotton, others wool, or acrylic (which is what I use the most), not to mention different thickness, quality, etc. (Sorry yarn nerd moment.) There are actually people on here that spin their own yarn, or at least they used to be on here.. I haven't seen them in a while... :/

The appeal for me initially was hunting my husband's character down and shooting him, head shots were an extra bonus, especially if I was mad at him. Haha. Which I play GTA V, too. Also courtesy of le hubs. And it is pretty fun to beat the snot out of someone, rob a convenience store, then run like hell from the cops. <3 Stupid, yes, but still fun. XD
Zombies is pretty cool. Creepy, but cool. That is the stage I frequent the most now (Nuketown on Black Ops II), though I got my start on Der Riese on Black Ops.

I used to be picked on about being a human dictionary/thesaurus/spell check. Spelling has always been a friend of mine. <3

And HFS that is an AWESOME idea! I probably never would have thought of that!


I know I could do that, but, but, but... Pretties! ono lol
And you don't have to do that, ^_^'

[Vincent]

Haha it does sound fun to it all works out. XD

Ah. xD Well at least now I know. I guess it does make sense that yarn comes in all that different kinds of things.
Aw. :c How do you spin yarn? o.o

Lmao. XD That does sound like fun.
Well at least you like them and it works for you x3 I guess it's something to do huh. XD
Just not my kinda game though. x3 more of an rpg player. XD

I see o.o' Seems different

Awh. :c

xD Do it do it.
I might do it sometime later in life but no where to do it now . owo

xD psh.
Well I don't mind. x3 I mean it's something I can do whenever Trisphees a bit dead and there's nothing to do. So if you ever change your mind just let me know. x3

[Kilala Mikal]

*sagely nod*

I have no clue how to spin yarn, but I saw people talking about it in here at one point. It was probably late February/early March. I do know I'd love to get my hands on some to see how it differs from machine spun acrylic yarn.

What kind of games do you play, like actual titles? I've been hooked on Katamari: Forever here lately. The soundtrack is totally catchy.

Zombies is easy once you figure out the rhythm to it. It's when you're with people who haven't figured it out that's it's really chaotic, haha. ^-^

It wasn't like malicious picking, but my friends would always come to me to spell check their homework and ish. It wasn't so bad, lol. I liked it. It gave me something to alleviate my boredom. XD

I totally am. *nod nod* You could always tape yarn from one side of the room to the other and do the whole theif vs. lasers thing. O.O

I appreciate the offer, thank you. But I'm working on it again! *yay for semi-motivation!*

[Vincent]

Pft. XD Sagely nod to hens squawking. XD Quite an interesting thing we've got going here. XD

Ah o-o' Hmm. I'm sure google knows or something. XD You can just look up 'What's the difference between hand - spun and machine-spun yarn' or something x:

Katamari is awesome. 8'D I don't have any Katamari games but I HAVE played a demo of a Katamari game where you roll a ball around and make everything stick to it. XD It does have a rather catchy tune.
And If you get me on games I might go on forever. XD But as for titles, I do mostly RPG games. Right now I'm on 'Romancing Saga', you get to play as 8 different characters. o: Some of my favorite titles include the 'Star Ocean' Series, 'Grandia' Series, 'Final Fantasy' series (7-10/2, not any of the lastest ones x.x) uh. Disgaea series, and others. :3

Lmao. xD I know right. Like chickens running around crazy or something. x:
Though it might be fun to watch. -evil smile- XD

Haha. XD Yeah I guess that's a way of looking at it. :3 Good to have a fun hobby. or such. xD

Yeah o-o I'm not that flexible sadly and my backs kinda eh. XD So. who knows how well I'd do.

Whoo . XD /cited

[Kilala Mikal]

It is, haha. XD

I guess what I mean is I want to feel the difference for myself. XD I know how machine spun acrylic feels, and how it holds up to wear and tear after you've finished a project. I'm curious about how natural fibers feel, like lambs wool or angora (rabit) wool, or even yarn hand spun from cotton.

I was bit on 10-2. It was the first Final Fantasy game I ever played. I loved the graphics, and the dress spheres were highly appealing to me. (I've always loved being able to customize the way my characters look.) I've got Star Ocean: The Last Hope, but I haven't actually picked it up to play it. My hubs is a huge PS3 gamer. Have you ever played Dragon Age? ouo

It really is. I know it's hilarious watching my hubs and our roommate play. When it's just the two of them, they can make it to round 25+ with no major mishaps, but if you throw in 2 random players with them, our roommate gets to shrieking when the anybody goes down and their zombies start coming after him. I love it!

Tis why I've picked up Crochet and Knitting... and cross stitch... and about 50 bajillion other things... >.> <.< >.>'

You never know until you try! lol

Yush, *cited* ^____^

[Vincent]

x3

Ahh. Yeah. You need to feel the yarn, and you need to be the yarn. BI
I... don't even know if I've even felt yarn. XD
like. in it's... yarn form. XD

10-2 was rather lovely <3 I loved the whole job/dressphere changing things too 8'D took a while to write down a list of what to do to get the best dressphere, too, the mascot. was not dissapointed it's a lovely sphere <3
did you get any of the ultimate ones? o.o I liked yuna's Floral Fallal. <3
I really want Star ocean the last hope. ;~; but I don't even have a ps3 yet. x.x I've played Star ocean til the end of time to NO end though. XD Seriously it's like always fun to me.
I've heard of it but never played it o-o What's that like again?

lmao. XD Duude if zombies are around your sposed to not make a noise. XD
sounds like a good time though x3.

Psh. you do more then that? o_O you'd think that would eat up all your free time XD

I guess. XD

Yayy. XD Whenever it gets done you should link me. -nodnod-

[Kilala Mikal]

Lol. *mystical echo* Beee the yaaarrrrnnnnn */echo*
Seriously? O.o Baby yarns are soooo soft! And so is Lion Brand's Homespun, although it is a pain in the butt to work with (at least it was for me).

It's been sooooo long since I played it... :/ I don't really remember much about the plot, or the spheres... I do remember that the last place I was, was on Tidus' island. And in doing a quick bit of research, I remember that I really liked the theif sphere, but it was more for aesthetics than functionality. x/ I was one of *those* back then.
I watched my hubs play it, and he enjoyed it enough to hang on to it and not trade it in, so that's saying something. I played Phantasy Star for the ps2 before we got our ps3 (I know they're not related, but I always put the two together in my head oddly enough). It bothered me that it didn't have a pause menu, lol. But I really enjoyed playing it. I kinda wanna break out my PS2 now. xD

Then I guess it's a good thing they're digital and not real, haha. It is. I still prefer multiplayer though. >u<'

Yups, haha. I read, sketch, write, play video games, I've been teaching myself how to play the piano and guitar, I cook, and I'm wanting to learn embroidery, on top of Crocheting, Cross Stitching, and Knitting. Oh, and I dabble in html from time to time. >.<' And it does for the most part, but I have my die hard addictions. *coughavsitescough*

And I shall. *nod nod*

[Quiet Man Cometh]

yeah, Squirrel moment here too. I've been on a sticker and letter writing kick.

I'm still sitting on that mostly finished cross stitch I put up a while ago, still looking for that metallic black thread. I bought some silver in the event I can't find it but I am insisting on black! Well, one more half-finished project to the pile isn't that big of a deal.

I'm moving soon, and deciding just what of my craft piles to bring with me has been occupying my attention. I'm tempted to order a wool spindle and some fiber and have it sent to where I'm moving too, so it's one less thing to pack. Still no idea what I'll do with the wool once I spin it, but I'm sure I'll come up with something, if I don't pick up something else in the meantime.

[Kilala Mikal]

@Quiet: I remember it! I think you're doing right by waiting to find that metallic black. *nod nod* I hope you're able to find it!

Yay for moving? o.o' I've a few times, and I know how big of a pain in the patootey it can be. So how exactly does the yarn you spin differ from the machine spun? And what materials do you use?

[Quiet Man Cometh]

The biggest difference I think is that machine spun yarn is a whole lot more even. Hand spun yarn can, depending on the skill of the spinner, be lumpy, of uneven texture, tension, width, etc. I'm not all that good at it, so my yarn tends to be shabby looking.

I like doing stuff with my hands so I decided to just get a drop spindle and manually spin it rather than use a wheel which my sister wants to find. You can apparently also make a drop spindle with a wooden dowel, a hook on one end to hold the yarn end, and something heavy to make it spin. It's pretty basic in theory.

I'll probably talk to my sister about what sort of fiber to use. There's machine dyed, hand dyed, which have different colour patterns, and of course, many different types of wool to buy.

Basically, you stretch the wool out a bit, spin it into a cord, and then soak it in water to shrink it and tighten the yarn, wrapping it around something to dry so that it doesn't end up in a tangled lump. At least, this is what my sister tells me. I've only spun, not done the soaking part.

I'll see if I can find her page of stuff she's done.

[Kilala Mikal]

Gotcha.

So how does a drop spindle work? Sorry if I ask too many questions. I'm curious, and I'd rather talk to someone about it than go blundering through the intarwebz looking around.

That's what really interests me. I'm curious about the different textures of the different fibers. All I've really worked with has been machine spun acrylic. Which makes for nice accessories, and blankets and such, but it can be itchy until you've washed it a few times, and if you're not careful, you can melt it in the dryer. ._.

Do you enjoy it?

I'd really appreciate seeing her work. *nod nod*