Tien’s blog

Well, I’m slowly returning to the land of the living; I spent most of today codeine-free, meaning I actually got to do something besides drugged-out moping.  So I spent the day studying database design, MySQL, and electronics theory.  I’m doing much better with the first two than with the electronics, alas.
Following Laritza’s advice (thanks Laritza!), [...]

I finally gave in and bought an electric cone winder to spare my shoulder the endless circular movements of ball-winding with very fine yarns (it took almost two hours for the fire shawl!). I promptly discovered that the ballwinder starts up too fast for fine cashmere yarns - the yarn breaks as the swift [...]