Perfect imperfection - get back to being individual!
I've been thinking a lot about this recently, having watched lots of ladies trying to produce the equivalent of machine spun wool yarn perfection on their spinning wheels and not being satisfied with what they were producing. When I got my Charkha cotton spinning wheel from India the other day I was amazed at the sheer craftsmanship in it, you could tell it was hand made, its crude construction was beautiful in its own right and I realised that this was why I loved it so much. I really hate commercial perfection - it's a modern day thing that we have been duped into. I remember when I was young getting some really great knobbly jumpers that had been hand knit and I loved them. I've still got an Arran jumper that my mum knit when I was twelve - it more or less fits now. Then the world went mad everything had to be mass produced, and to enable the machines to do the knitting and weaving, the wool spinning had to be an exact thickness and eveness all the wa...