April 09, 2008
Invent-y
So I don't claim to have invented much, not really. I mean, I guess I've invented my style, (it's undeniable, right), monster hat knit kits, vitreous humor, tomato vine. But when it comes to actual techniques, I think it's rather bold to say one invented such and such technique. People have been spinning for, like a bazillion years, we can't be the first ones to have made a cocoon! I mean, almost everything that's being done out there has been done, I'd venture to say, for longer than I've been alive. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the state of art yarns has always existed in the way it does now, not by any means. I'm not even saying that we don't invent new ways to do things. I'm only positing that the core of the techniques have probably been done in some basic way for a long-assed time.
And while we are surely improving on them and using them more creatively, we didn't really invent them. I mean, is there more than a handful of techniques that are not in Diane Varney's Spinning Designer Yarns? She published that in early 1987. Which sure, I was alive, but usually by the time something has been published, you can be sure someone somewhere has been doing it awhile. I know the pictures in that book don't resemble the amazing, artistic, spirited yarns that are around us today, but if you read her text carefully, it's all there.
What hasn't been there is the proliferation, the connectedness, the artistic outlook, the design, the combination of techniques that result in inspirational yarn. That stuff? I think it's so brand new and so extraordinary and so very important. But I don't pretend that we're all invent-y.
Why am I talking about this? Because I gots myself an invention, yo!
Heh. What I mean I have a new technique!
What is it? It's a coil in a single with no carry-along (racing stripe, candystripe, whatever) and is not just an overspun section of singles. And still, it's a bit silly to say I invented it. I mean, just because I've never seen anyone else do it (except my students and Jody and Shannon because it's in the video), doesn't mean there's not someone out there that has been doing it forever. And even more silly because it's a coil and coils are not new. But still, it's coil in a motherfuckin' single! Holla!
So tell me, who else out there does a coil in a single? I'd love to see what everyone else is doing? If you've ever done one, share a pic! Show your mad invent-y skillz. Heh.
Posted by jacey at April 9, 2008 04:01 PM
you did invent that!
and..you also invented that cool technique of a thin yarn with sections of thicker coiled spots - like the beaded curtain. i want to learn that! i have never seen anyone do that before you!
HOLLA!
Yo that is cool, I wantz to get the skillz.
Do we have to wait for the secret dvd, or do I have to ask shannon to break it to me...lol
I got the yarnage today btw. It is totally being made out with as we speak.
xo
Posted by: eva at April 9, 2008 06:27 PMElizabeth Zimmerman did a riff on the invention-thing and (if I'm remembering rightly) her conclusions were similar to yours. So when she came up with something that she had discovered or thought of on her own, she would claim it as her "un-vention."
Invented or unvented, your coils-in-singles are amazing and unique!!
Posted by: Zann Carter at April 9, 2008 11:04 PMha ha! no way, eva, i ain't spillin'! you gots to see the video for yourself! :)
and dig it j~ i hadn't seen it myself since we played together during the weekend of the shoot...and i think it's damn near in contention with sliced bread for the best thing ever.
i've made one single with coils since then (my handspun collective userpic), but no more. it takes me FOREVER! (the results are worth it, though...it looks totally improbable, impossible...are my eyes playing tricksies?)...maybe when i'm not in OH-MY-GOD-SPIN-A-SHITLOAD-FOR-MSW mode, i may play with it some more.
Posted by: shannon at April 9, 2008 11:36 PMYou totally invented that.
I'm on a borrowed wheel this week and thought I'd do a bit of the awesomeness you taught me, but guess what? My friend sold her Lendrum and so she's loaned me her Louet Victoria, and I can't get the cocoons through the tiny orifice. Cue tiny orifice jokes!
Posted by: jodi at April 10, 2008 07:05 AMI love it. I want it. I neeed it. Make lots more. I came back to pine for the grubworm and some smarty pants BOUGHT it before me!! I repent Keep it coming! We worship your talent, oh queen of the cocoon!
Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at April 10, 2008 09:45 PMWHEN is this DVD coming out?? Can't wait! Want it!
Chants: D-V-D D-V-D D-V-D
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