Pouring Feelings into the Wool as I Spin It into Yarn
This week has been a whole cluster filled with turmoil, up and down emotions, little patience, and a whole lot of things bugging me one right after the other. I came very close to having a full-blown meltdown this evening, when the pinnacle of annoyances of the week came: my computer was not working! Eventually I was able to fix it and get it going again. Right now, I'm on a video call with my good friend, Rebecca Lynn, the lovely Orpheotelest from the Starry Crown Tradition who introduced me to spinning -- and got me hooked! ^_^ She taught me today how to pour my feelings into the wool as I spin it into yarn. It goes like this: * Open my heart chakra and let all the feelings gather there. * Draft out wool and attach it to the leader on the spindle. * The wool is "sticky", which means it picks up strong feelings rather readily. I let the wool pick up the feelings just like the leader picks up the drafted-out wool. * As the twist travels up the drafted yarn through the tw...