Introduction: Spindle_Ella

[spindle_ella]

I Am: Ella, also known as Dibs, (and sometimes by my given name too).

I Make: Many things. I spin, knit, and weave (but am currently loomless, so not so much of that at the moment) and process and dye my own fibre; I work with papercrafts and leather, bind books and make traveller's notebooks for my etsy shop; I work with metal and resin and make jewellery and notions; I also do some creative and non-fiction writing, but will mostly be using crafts for the challenges.

I Like: Making many things; tea; reading; gardening; reading in my garden whilst supping tea; writing; crime shows and paranormal shows (the crappier the better); Leverage; Marvel movies; Legends of Tomorrow; Elementary; Lucifer; Old School Trek, SW, and Who; Diana Wynne Jones; Terry Pratchett; Ben Goldacre; Drag Race; Project Runway; Face Off; many more.

I Play: This is my only bingo, as others don't seem to be so craft friendly. Hook me up if you know of any though.

Find Me: Here, ravelry, and etsy.

About Me: I'm awkward af so very bad at these introduction things. I live in the North of England and like to make pretty things. I'm out of work due to my nervous system on my right side just throwing random fits whenever it pleases. I'm generally friendly and need to get out more (but see: nervous system).

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Welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>I spin, knit, and weave<<

That's awesome. I have known fibercrafters before and they are interesting people.

>> I work with papercrafts and leather, bind books and make traveller's notebooks for my etsy shop<<

How exciting!

Okay, I know that I made a list of art prompts for the Bingo Card Generator. I don't think there's a list specifically for handicrafts, though. If you want to make one, then you can submit it to the creator of the BCG and get it added.

>> I Play: This is my only bingo, as others don't seem to be so craft friendly. Hook me up if you know of any though. <<

You might check out genprompt_bingo, which has a very broad focus. kink_bingo explicitly welcomes crafts if you are into that sort of thing, but is not currently in session.

>> I'm out of work due to my nervous system on my right side just throwing random fits whenever it pleases.<<

That's pesky. Some of my friends with variable disabilities have a set of buttons to indicate current status, like "High pain day: do not touch." You might find "Right side malfunctioning today" a way of reducing the amount of times you have to shoo people away from touching it or trying to make you do things like shake hands or take packages with it. This sort of thing is somewhat effective with strangers, but works quite well with a support network who already know you and your general range of functionality. All your people need to know is where on the nerve map you are today.

>> I'm generally friendly and need to get out more (but see: nervous system). <<

Oh, that sucks. Few things are more miserable than an extrovert who needs people but whose body won't go to them. :( Maybe you could get the party to come to you?

I write about characters with disabilities fairly often, if you're into that sort of thing. I have two series with disability as a focus: P.I.E. and The Moon Door. I also have some scattered throughout other series, and I even have a match for "extrovert with acquired disability that limits her going out." Syncope has balance issues related to her superpower, so it's not as easy as it used to be for her to go places and do things. One of her coping methods was to move in to a house with several other disabled soups, although I have not yet gotten around to the rockin' two-level parties they throw: extroverts on the lower floor, introverts and people needing a break on the upper floor. Without that support network, Syncope would be freaking out a lot more. I got some of the ideas for her from friends who have variable mobility.

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[spindle_ella]

I don't think there's a list specifically for handicrafts, though. If you want to make one, then you can submit it to the creator of the BCG and get it added.

I can have a go at it; I suppose if things weren't too specific then they could work as writing prompts too, so it could have wider appeal. Things like "Ply Beaded Bouclé", while a challenge to a spinner, might be a bit specialist, lol, but "knitting" is fairly broad and can be used as more than the hobby (knitting bones, knitting together strands of reality, etc.)

I had a look at those two bingos, and I think I might sign up for genprompts, if they're craft friendly (I've had bad writer's block, so throwing my energy into crafts is my thing at the moment and adding writing pressure would be double-plus ungood). Thank you for the suggestions!

Some of my friends with variable disabilities have a set of buttons to indicate current status, like "High pain day: do not touch."

I'm mostly okay with touch, except for a couple of small trigger points, it's mostly an issue with it telling me bad things are happening when they're not: no, brain, my hip is not actually on fire right now; yes, I'm sure about that, I can see that you're lying to me. I'm not being stabbed in the eye either so you can knock that right off. Fine, screw you, I'll take the sleepy-pills; that'll bloody shut you up. It runs in the family. :/

an extrovert who needs people but whose body won't go to them.

I'm actually mostly an introvert, which is a blessing, but I still feel like I'd like to socialise maybe once a quarter. However, since I made this post I organised going to see some sheep next week! (I'll start small so as not to startle my social side; it's like a shy, woodland creature). I'm picking out whose fleece I want come shearing time - the answer's probably "all of them", to be honest.

Thanks for the recs. :D

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>> but "knitting" is fairly broad and can be used as more than the hobby (knitting bones, knitting together strands of reality, etc.) <<

Good idea. I did a poetry fishbowl on "yarn, thread, and string" where those could be literal or allegorical. It was a lot of fun.

>> I had a look at those two bingos, and I think I might sign up for genprompts, if they're craft friendly <<

I think they are. You can always ask the moderators, though.

>>it's mostly an issue with it telling me bad things are happening when they're not: <<

That sucks.

>> I'm actually mostly an introvert, which is a blessing, but I still feel like I'd like to socialise maybe once a quarter. <<

Yeah, most introverts want occasional interaction, just not as much as extroverts.

>> However, since I made this post I organised going to see some sheep next week!<<

Woohoo!

>> (I'll start small so as not to startle my social side; it's like a shy, woodland creature). <<

Good idea.

>> I'm picking out whose fleece I want come shearing time - the answer's probably "all of them", to be honest. <<

Hee! It's good to plan ahead, though. And sheep are cute to watch. Do you like white wool for dyeing, or naturally tinted wool? I enjoy looking at the sheep when I go to a fair.

>> Thanks for the recs. :D <<

*bow, flourish* Happy to be of service.

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[spindle_ella]

I like both white wool and tinted, for different reasons - the natural shades can give really nice effects when dyed over. The sheep I'm going to see are Border Leicesters, so it'll be white wool. I have two Hebridean fleeces (naturally black wool), a Castlemilk Moorit fleece (naturally brown wool), and a Jacob fleece (naturally brown and white splotches) from last year's cut still to scour and process though, and two coloured Shetland fleeces (a fawn katmoget and a grey gulmoget) that are clean but not yet carded, so plenty of the tinted stuff laying around for when I reach it. And that's only the self-processed stuff. :D

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[ysabetwordsmith]

:D That sounds lovely. Wool is such interesting stuff! And that's before getting out of sheep into other things like alpaca or qiviut.

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[spindle_ella]

There's also 5kg of felting-quality brown alpaca and 3kg of white cria, and some baby yak, camel, possum, llama, crab... I have a problem, lol.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Alpaca, cria, baby yak, camel, llama, no problem.

Possum? Really? Okay, there used to be a lady around here who knitted her dog's undercoat, but possums are pretty gross critters. Crab?!

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[spindle_ella]

New Zealand Possum; they're a lot fluffier, and invasive :) Crab fibre (chitosan) is reclaimed from seafood processing waste; it's lovely and silky, but needs to be blended because it's a bugger to spin on its own.

[meridian_rose]

Welcome! I'll look forward to seeing what you come up with :)

The ravelry link bounced me to a log-in page (only members can see any content?) but the etsy link worked. Out of my price range but those notebooks are so pretty :D

tropebingo talks about size of works: poems and crafts can be whatever size you like.
Then it's just a question of if the prompts inspire you :)

I'm also in the UK (Midlands), love Leverage and Pratchett and have "Legends of Tomorrow" on my watch list once this season of Arrow and Flash have finished, I can't keep up with ALL the DC at once, I have a *lot* of fandoms and many ongoing shows :)

[spindle_ella]

Thanks!

That's annoying about the Ravelry link; I think I've opened up the projects now, but the profile stays locked. Most of it's in my dreamwidth anyway though. And thank you: the notebooks actually started out with me wanting one, seeing the £40 range of them and going 'Ow Much?!! (You can take the lass out of Yorkshire...) and then making myself one out of an old suitcase, but then it spiralled into a shop.

I'll check out tropebingo, thanks!

I'm not really up-to-date with Legends of Tomorrow, but it fills my 'cheesy-goodness' needs, and Wentworth Miller is a delight in it. He'd mostly flown under my radar before, but he hams it up like nobody's business in LoT and it's glorious