Knitting @lemmy.world ickplant @lemmy.world 12mo ago

It's a trap, y'all!

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This is exactly what it's like becoming a hobby machinist. Start off with a drill press, end up making all your own tools.
- Yep I had the same experience with coffee. Started with a shitty nespresso machine, moved up to a manual machine, then semi automatic. Now I'm roasting my own beans. I would legit buy a coffee farm and make a living out of it, if I get the opportunity.
- yep and if it's your job all you wanna do is buy a mill and a laith but money and space :(
  
  There is always space, I have seen guys turn their kitchen into a machine shop, lol.
You can also branch out into gardening flax, cotton, hemp, reseda, krapp and indigo ...
- I saw a woman spin yarn using her dogs sheds.
  
  Don't ask me about spidle spinning my Maine Coons hair. ;)
  
  When we used to have a super sheddy dog, I always told my wife she should spin yarn out of the dog hair and then knit a sweater for the dog, but she wouldn't do it.
- I may have fallen into a rabbit hole of tutorials on this very topic (growing and spinning flax). So. Many. Traps.
Beware the pipeline
- Knitting: the gateway drug.
I am in the picture and I do not like it
Ewe now own the means of production!
- Nice.
I've been resisting the urge to get angora bunnies for almost 10 years now. I don't know how much longer I can hold out.
- @QTpi @ickplant Not to be a terrible influence here but omg, so fluffy! 😍
  
  Lovely fluffies indeed!
- Do it. I’m the devil on your shoulder today.
Goats do seem to be the natural end point on the journey that starts by learning to cast on.
- If only someone would have warned me before my first stitch!
My wife has reached everything but the shepherd stage.
- Beware, sheep may be in your future. Or maybe a nice alpaca?
  
  We have a dog that would torment either. But I wouldn't mind saving money on lawn maintenance.
Haven't gotten the sheep yet...

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