This is exactly what it's like becoming a hobby machinist. Start off with a drill press, end up making all your own tools.
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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.
i'm doing an second apprenticeship as a programmmer so i don't have the money to even own my own kitchen :(
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. ;)
I will absolutely ask about it! Haha. Do they shed a lot? The cats I've had have all been decently short haired, so no fibres you could really work with.
Our Maine Coon came as a rescued "present" by the local police, who did not know what to do with her. So I was not at all prepared for a long-furred creature.
Summers here are really hot, but her hair is so long and wooly that it felts in place before it can work its way out. In the first year, I had to cut her hair with a mower. ;)
The second year, I was prepared and started combing her. She enjoys it, and I get a lot of harvested hair that way. Sometimes in winter I pull out my tiny 16g top spindle and spin a bit of it. You can't go too fine, or the thread will unravel. For sturdy and fluffy, I recommend spinning around a thread of sewing yarn or mixing in some crimpy wool fiber.
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.
I am in the picture and I do not like it
Beware the pipeline
Knitting: the gateway drug.
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.
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!
Haven't gotten the sheep yet...
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.
Hmmmm, I wonder if you can spin yarn out of dog furโฆ
I don't see why not. See my comment below about our old dog. :)