{"id":1698,"date":"2007-06-24T09:51:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T14:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abbysyarns.com\/wordpress\/?p=83"},"modified":"2007-06-24T09:51:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T14:51:48","slug":"you-know-youve-been-a-fiber-geek-too-long-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/2007\/06\/24\/you-know-youve-been-a-fiber-geek-too-long-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know You&#8217;ve Been A Fiber Geek Too Long When&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You regard being down to a pound of silk as being totally out of silk.<\/li>\n<li>You panic about whether or not the resupply is going to be here IN TIME. In time for what, exactly? You know. In time.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re down to half a bump each (or 12-15 pounds) of 5 different kinds of commercial wool top, and are worrying you might be pushing it waiting a couple of weeks to restock it on the grounds that&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;you really need to clean up your yarn room, because the mound of trash fiber on the floor is definitely larger than the cat.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re going to throw that trash fiber away.<\/li>\n<li>The only room in the house without a fiber project in it is the bathroom&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and that&#8217;s got fiber catalogs in it.<\/li>\n<li>You aren&#8217;t sure how many spinning wheels you have, and are afraid you&#8217;ll be off by more than 5 if you guess.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s at least 50 pounds of prepped fiber, interesting fiber even, not just white raw materials, sitting in your studio, but when you go to see what you&#8217;ll spin next, it looks like there&#8217;s nothing there to spin, so&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;you&#8217;ve got to prep more.<\/li>\n<li>Heck, you might as well buy more too.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve got a lint roller in every room, to keep you from eating cashmere by accident.<\/li>\n<li>You leave the studio without de-fibering yourself hardly at all, and go somewhere in public&#8230; at which point you realize people are staring at you and you&#8217;re literally covered in fluff from head to toe.<\/li>\n<li>You know off the top of your head which lint roller refills are interoperable with what rollers&#8230; and that all of them are not interchangeable. Nope, they aren&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>When you put your hair up, you do it just like if you were securing a skein.<\/li>\n<li>You think of yourself as having a 3-foot staple with a harsh feel to it and high micron count, definitely not next-to-skin soft.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t wonder anymore if you can spin the random fibrous things you encounter in odd places like the supermarket. You don&#8217;t wonder, because you know. You know, because you&#8217;ve tried.<\/li>\n<li>You keep thinking it&#8217;s going to be great to hit the bookstore and look for a few new yarn type books, but then you get there and realize your shelves at home are larger than the yarn-related sections at most stores. Yes, including the knitting, sewing, weaving, crochet, and magazines. Sigh.<\/li>\n<li>But on the bright side, several of the books they do have are by friends of yours.<\/li>\n<li>Your mother&#8217;s in town, and she asks you for a cable needle. You tell her you don&#8217;t have one, because you swore off knitting cables many years ago. She looks at you in horror with the words unspoken on her lips: what have I wrought, unleashing upon the world a child who grew up into a woman who has no cable needle? This doesn&#8217;t seem at all strange to you, until someone else points out most mothers would probably reserve that level of shock for, say, not having silverware.<\/li>\n<li>As a result of all that, you both have to go to the nearby award-winning famous yarn store. While there, you both shop for projects and yarn&#8230; and end up saying &#8220;I give up, the right yarn isn&#8217;t here, let&#8217;s go raid my stash instead.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The yarn you were looking for <i>is<\/i> in your stash.<\/li>\n<li>The hardest part of winter is the static, because it makes your fiber recalcitrant.<\/li>\n<li>The hardest part of summer is picking what projects and fibers won&#8217;t kill you from the heat.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t leave home for 8 hours without taking enough fiber, yarn, and projects that are already in progress to last you a month. <\/li>\n<li>You dream fondly of the apocalypse, thinking how great it&#8217;ll be when everyone suddenly cares about textile production because without it, they&#8217;d have no clothes. <\/li>\n<li>Your child actually speaks the sentence, &#8220;That&#8217;s just my mom. Don&#8217;t talk to her unless you like boring yarn and stuff,&#8221; and he&#8217;s probably right. <\/li>\n<li>You have smaller variants of pretty much every type of textile equipment featured on TV shows like &#8220;How It&#8217;s Made&#8221; &#8212; except for the really esoteric ones like suction-based devices to turn things right side out after seaming, and you know you&#8217;d probably pick one of those up too, if you ran across one.<\/li>\n<li>Despite your 3 feet of hair, you have more soaps for fiber than you do shampoo and conditioner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hear it &#8212; I know you&#8217;ve all got more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of &#8220;You Know You&#8217;ve Been Hacking Too Long When,&#8221; or YKYBHTLW&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Duui-ro","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}