Guerilla Spinning...

[altivo]

For my friends who have wondered what I meant when I mentioned "guerilla spinning". For fun, and to promote handspinning and fiber craft in the community, members of our spinning guild get together to spin and knit on Wednesday mornings at the local Starbuck's.

Guerilla Spinning Hollow Tree Spinners at Starbuck's, 23 Mar 2005. Left to right: Gary, Susan, Toni.

Comments

[brunbera.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of Ghandi's homespun movement. Cool.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Nothing nearly as grand as that. Though I do like the idea of invading a yuppy space with an ancient art that literally confounds many of them. "What are you doing?" "Why are you doing it?" "How can you do that?"

And my favorite question: "Where did you get all the antique spinning wheels?" Not one of the spinning wheels in use is an antique. All are modern, factory produced designs with parts made of nylon, carbon fiber, and so forth. I've tried to spin on antique wheels. My greatest sympathy goes to our great-great-grandmothers who actually had to do it daily.

[doco.livejournal.com]

Augh. That'd be material for a lot of godawful puns in my native language. :)

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Handmade crafts in a corporate coffee house -- how sublimely subversive!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes. That precise thought is the only thing that gets me inside the place. I certainly can't figure out what people see in their coffee.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

It's quite a bit stronger than most other coffee houses'. I don't like it much, myself. The only reason I've willingly gone into one is, Starbucks has the only 24-hour coffeehouse in the area, and when I hang out with a friend after he gets off work (he manages a movie theater) that's one of the few places we could go.

I don't know if you have Caribou Coffee in your area... they're kind of corporate, but not as big as Starbucks. Two friends and I used to hold folk singing nights at one of their stores here. That was fun and somewhat subversive too.