Fic Rush 48

Help... the giraffes... eeek...

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lolmac

Quick! Use the really pretty silk yarn!

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This calls for a size J crochet hook and some rapid hooking!

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lolmac

Ha! That'll catch 'em! I have the pots and potting soil all ready to go!

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More sandy, or more loamy? Important questions!

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lolmac

More silky!

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sid

I cooked and ate and read. Maybe I've run out of steam because I didn't sleep enough last night.

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lolmac

Perhaps you'll sleep really well tonight and write Even Moar fic tomorrow!!

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sid

Maybe I'll toddle off and give that a try. :-)

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Beta beta beta.

I am the very meta of a modern marvelous beta. Tra-la tra-la tra-la.

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lolmac

Hmmm, I need to do some of that too.

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dbskyler.livejournal.com

You need to sing songs from Pirates of Penzance?

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lolmac

I think there's one from "Yeoman of the Guard" that's supposed to be sung by a pining prisoner. That'll do.

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I have... not written. :P (Also not done any homework - my fic_rush goal is homework, did I say that?) I've been spinning extremely thin yarn and listening to Sherlock Holmes audioplays I hadn't heard before. And eating ice cream. o_O

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What fiber? We need things that attract tiny giraffes.

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Leicester Longwool, hand-dyed (not by me). I do love me some long-staple wools; I can spin them so absurdly thin. :-) Also the colors are gorgeous - I'm going to chain-ply this, which asyouprobablyknowBob is like thumb-crocheting only then it twists around itself and turns into yarn. :D Keeps the colors together. I'm getting a laceweight three-ply here... ^_^

...I don't know, do tiny giraffes like tiny thin yarn? :-)

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Ooh!

Animal fibers make me red and blotchy (le sigh) so all my spinning has been bamboo or silk. And not very enthusiastically pursued, because silk singles are dumb*, and it's still all too thick and thin to bother plying. I envy your longwool. Laceweight three-ply ... nom.

I'm pretty sure the long staple would make for a nice strong bonsai giraffe trap.

*Will pill when knitted or crocheted like no-one's business, will generally look like hell.

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I had to detangle a silk single once. (I'm in the Ravelry group of volunteer detanglers, "Knot a Problem", because I do like untangling things - but not energized silk singles! O_O) I have been singularly uninterested in spinning any silk, since that time. ;S

I saw some hand-dyed 100%-nylon faux-cashmere roving once, but sadly didn't buy it; have you ever tried spinning something like that?

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Hmm, no, but only because I'm a tinnnny bit of a natural-fibre snob. Although I'm always tempted by the sparkly stuff you can get to blend in.

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lolmac

Nothing wrong with a bit of sparkle, as long as the mylar fiber is sheared from the soft underbelly of the very best champion purebred Mylars, fed on fresh green grass with the dew still sparkling on it (that's where the sparkle comes from).

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lolmac

Oh, Missy told me about the detanglers group -- it made me want to join on the spot!

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Have you tried tiny trees?

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No, only tiny nets!

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Ah, they are too clever for that! Attract them with tiny trees, then capture them with tiny hand-woven lassos while they munch their tiny noms! Works every time.

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Awfully handy to have a tiny-giraffe expert around!

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Ah, I wouldn't so much call myself an expert as an enthusiast, but I did manage to wrangle a large herd of tiny-giraffe with just such a method during the great tiny-giraffe escape of '43. :p

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Oh, terrible affair, that, terrible affair! Well done, you.

Edited Date: 2012-02-26 03:56 am (UTC)

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