Busy Saturday

[altivo]

Guild meeting this morning. Next year's challenge project will be exotic fibers. We will each draw the name of a fiber and have to make a project using that fiber. We decided not to include vicuña or qiviut, since they are way too expensive. But camel, llama, alpaca, cashmere, silk, rabbit angora, mohair, possum, and dog are all possibilities.

Got a call from the optometrist that my new lenses were in for my glasses, so made a run to Crystal Lake and let them put one pair in while I waited, and left the other pair for them to do before Thursday.

Gary made a Moroccan bread called "ksra". It's round and flat, with anise seed inside and sesame on the outside. Very tasty.

NaNoWriMo continues: Kite testing with the tail, and bird watching too

20,055 / 50,000 (40.1%)

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Comments

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

This is interesting.

How about synthetic fibers?

After all, the product would last longer, maybe
forever, and no animal would have to lose its
organic material?

Nylon comes to mind.

Hmm.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Synthetics are possible and available. Tencel, a form of rayon, is quite popular. There is also soy silk, and ingeo (made from corn, don't ask me how) as well as bamboo (which is actually a kind of rayon made from bamboo.) Nylon is available but not very popular. Polyester is nasty. ;p

I'm more interested myself in the natural plant fibers such as linen, cotton, ramie, hemp, sisal, and so forth.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

*snuffles about* Any of the bread left?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Actually yes, we had some more of it with dinner tonight but there's still about half a loaf. Have some. ;D

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

*yays and snarfles some down*