George N. M. Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Dear All, I am posting this link primarily for those IFI members who are in, as Thomas Powers puts it, a steel-wool relationship. I really understand this since my late wife was an accomplished spinner, weaver, and fiber author. My theory is that craft is attracted to craft. Someone who has a love of working with their hands will be attracted to someone with the same inclination. Here is a very interesting article about the things that have been found in a melting ice patch/glacier in Norway: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/58379#comments "By hammer and hand all arts do stand." GNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 THANKS something for my wife's cabin fever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Well, don't tell anyone, but I like to play with steel and knit, albeit not at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Thank you for the link! A good read for a dull day. You don't knit and play with steel at the same time? How about knitting metals other than steel? Heck this'll probably work with steel too just not as easily. https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=Awr9Dtvo9ZleK4gAErlXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyMHI5c2ptBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDQjk5MTZfMQRzZWMDc2M-?p=viking+knitting&fr=crmas Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 I was thinking of knitting your own Kevlar gloves... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 I was always asking my wife if I bought her 200 pounds of 0000 steel wool if she would spin it and knit/weave/crochet me an anvil. I never could get her to take me up on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 3 hours ago, George N. M. said: Someone who has a love of working with their hands will be attracted to someone with the same inclination. I think that's spot on. In the 43 years my wife & I have been together, I can't name all the different hobbies we have been involved in. She is accomplished in so many things it staggers my mind. Leather work, show rabbits which led to fiber arts spinning & weaving, pottery, Karate (second degree black belt) slowed down by injuries & now blacksmithing. Myself it's mostly restoring old stuff like firearms primarily muzzleloaders which involve metal & wood work, old oil lamps mostly Aladdin lamps, Jeeps & old tractors and of course blacksmithing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 I ask my wife when is she going to spin and crochet a bunch of anvil cozies for my shop. I expect them 'ad Kalendas Graecas'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 It can be dangerous though. I'm still pretty sure that me getting bees for mead crafting contributed in the long run to my last divorce. I could get my bees if she could get a few chickens, the next thing I know we're running a farm with a few hundred chickens, plus assorted goats, pigs, horses, turkeys, etc and she's leaving me for a horse farmer 50 years her senior. It wasn't craft exactly, but the creative impulse nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latticino Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Sounds like good fodder for a soap opera (no pun intended). Did she at least take the chickens when she left? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Are you egging him on Latticino? Bee nice. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 I made this for Lisa a while back: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Chickens, house, kids...everything but the bills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shabumi Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 On 4/17/2020 at 11:34 AM, Frosty said: Heck this'll probably work with steel too just not as easily not too difficult, I used some extra bailing wire to give it a try. I like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Rebar tie wire looks to have gotten flimsier lately and is quite soft to work with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anvil Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 I'm sure that everybody knows where steel wool comes from,,,. A hydraulic ram,,,. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Time for a remedial birds and bees course for Anvil; it take two to tango! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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