Er, excuse me, “There’s more than one way to do it.”Īnd yes, Deb, I do plan to cover woolen vs. Like Perl programmers always say, TMTOWTDI. I told Deb that part of why I want to do this series is to point out that when you go looking for good, solid information, the sources you find don’t have to agree with each other in order to be authoritative. But if we listen, and argue, and are invested in the discourse, then odds are we’ll walk away from it all with lots of food for thought, and perspectives we hadn’t considered before. Even when you sit down a panel of undisputed experts and ask questions that seem straightforward, odds are you won’t come away with definitive and absolute answers and experts won’t always agree (in fact, they might argue heatedly). So: Are you going to add “woolen/worsted” to your list of topics?Īt some levels, it’s quite straightforward. Let’s just say (1) I was still standing at the end of the evening (miracle) and (2) there were no definitive answers, although there were a *lot* of opinions expressed and most of the folks in the room (which was packed) thought a lot about yarn while the conversation(s) went on. The panel consisted of between six and eight of the most knowledgeable and opinionated handspinners the English-speaking world has ever produced. I am a profound introvert (occasional appearances to the contrary) with an entrenched ability to see most sides of nearly any question (may have been my saving quality). In emailing with folks a bit following last week’s On Opinions and Disagreement, one of the things I found myself talking about was, “Why?” Why get into the arguments at all? And you know, it comes down to something Deborah Robson said in her comment:Ībby, at the first SOAR I attended (not “participated in,” I’ve never done that) just after I became editor of Spin-Off I was given the job of moderating a panel “discussion” on woolen and worsted. A few of you laughingly commented this might be an odd choice of timing to go picking fights, what with absurd heat waves going around and how that affects temperaments - but then again, perhaps a little productive debate serves as a constructive outlet, eh? Here we go with round one of my series tackling some of the classic debates in the handspinning arena.
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