on making yarn

It has been said,
(generally by those who do not do it),

that making yarn by hand
must be incredibly relaxing --
perhaps 'almost' a meditation.

It has also been suggested,
once or twice,
​ or a hundred times,
(sometimes by the very people
who assume it to be meditative),

​that making yarn
is clearly boring
​ in the extreme.

It is possible
that both of these statements
are true.

Me? I can't tell --
 indeed, I have a feeling
that my perspective
​might just be
 a teensy bit skewed.

Making yarn is a thing I do--
perhaps the central thing--

day after day--

week after week--

year after year.

Even when I'm not writing about it--

​(as I won't be for the month of August
since it is blog-cation time!)--

I'm generally adding twist to something or other:
a used coffee filter--
a dead leaf--
an idea--

so all I can say for sure--

is that though it is my job
(or perhaps because it is my job),

---

I love it more than I can possibly say.

ps. these blog posts have more on coffee filter yarn
-Coffee Filter Yarn 
-Indigo and Paper (includes links to people who really know what they are doing!)
-Somewhat Slanted-with coffee filters

pps. The store will remain open so you can download guides.
The Backstrap Dialogues Zine (paper version) will be available again in September

ppps Wishing you a lovely month wherever you are --
and whatever season it is there--
meditating or spinning or being bored
or perhaps all three at once.

See you in September!