Insubordiknit

Sorry you're feeling so glum - I just wanted to stop by to say that your handspun is beautiful! The only reason I haven't ordered yet because I cant decide, and the new Shark Attack!! certainly hasn't helped my decision making process. Hope you are feeling better tomorrow!

who's paying the bills around here? the reader or the writer? 'cause if it's supposed to be the reader i want all my yarn free and pages and pages filled with dirty jokes, vegan recipes and huge bandwith-eating videos of spinning lessons. STAT!

on the other hand, if it's the writer, you can write whatever the fuck you wanna write and everybody else will figure out a way to live with it or without it.

you don't have to apologize for being a full, multi-dimensional human being. and what good would it do to delete the post? you gonna convince us b-ill just winds you up every morning and lets you totter around 'til your battery dies and you stand in a corner all night 'til he winds you up again? not the kid! i know better and so should every other adult who reads here.

you be glum. it's good for you. means you're paying attention and not settling. you're as complex and beautiful as the yarns you create and there ain't no shame in that.

NOW WHERE'S MY SPINNING LESSONS????

I'm sorry you're feeling down. Business is a real pain in the ass at times, it's hard to know where to get customers and how to get people to look at and buy your stuff. You WILL have quiet periods though when you think that you will never ever sell another bit of yarn to anyone on the whole planet, and then someone somewhere will mention your yarn and other people will come and look and then the sales will start again, I promise!

I look and drool over your yarn but I'm broke and have no immagination as to what to do with the lengths that you sell! lol

Hugs, hope the world stops pulling your hair soon.

I know your pain - I'm starting a new business, too, but I just have to think that it will take off when it does and I can't obsess about it (tho' obsessing is one of my best hobbies...).

My extra stash and beer money have gone to Kat victims. Someday I'll be buying yarn again, and you're in the queue.

Good luck.

i hear ya lady! here is what you can do to cheer yourself up. look at some of the other people selling really crappy yarn. and then you will realize that is is just a lull. nothing more. and the knitty thing will be continuous. don't assume everyone read it all the way thru right away...i read only your part and haven't had a chance to check out anything else. but i have had some freaked out days, myself. although i sold one skein on etsy and a vintage shirt this week. not exactly paying the bills, you know?
i miss ya!

I'm sitting here, reading you for the first time, and I'm thinking 'I want to do that!!'. Taking the stretch to do what you love and risking poverty through it is nothing less than bravery, and a determination to love life. I'm 20, and have many aspirations of yarning my way through life, but there are times (many of them) when I have to give into a day job, end up hating the 9 to 5, and think I'm naive to think I can do what I love....but then I read a stranger's blog about spinning and knitting and cherry trees, and I remember what it's about. TO SUM IT UP: Even on your glum days, know that you're reaching us other glum knitters/spinners, and making us want everything!

I keep visiting the yarn shop but haven't bought anything yet, mostly because I can't decide, but partly because I wish I had a better sense of what the yarn looks like once it's been worked up. You might want to consider knitting a small swatch and posting a picture of it with your others. Dunno. Just an idea...