Day 15 - Tour de Fleece: What does chocolate and spinning have in common?

Day 15: What does chocolate making and handspinning yarn have in common? Well, I'll explain in the video. :) Today was a bit of a rest day so there wasn't much spinning and I also had to work. Tomorrow is a trip to Nottingham and a visit to the castle. I'm sure there will be plenty of textiles to see too! I'm also packing my spindle so I can spin on the go.
Verdant Works, the jute factory in Dundee, UK (outside of Glasgow):
www.verdantworks.co.uk/
I don't spend enough time on myself so this challenge will focus on me spinning for myself (mostly) and sharing some personal projects--and personal growth with y'all.
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[@sonjanordahl3158]

Chocolate and spinning are both things do to relax.😊

[@ExpertlyDyed]

I have chocolate every day and it totally does relax me as much as spinning. I have given up sweets so it's one of the things I look forward to!

[@kristalburns3490]

I coulda swore it was lots of chocolate while learning to spin . Love the decals on that machine!

[@ExpertlyDyed]

Haha. Yes, that too. And wine when you spin after dinner too. 🤣

[@jenniferbrighty5120]

Hi Jennifer, I hope you're all OK xx 💗 I'm not too sure bout the answer, but my thought is they can both make us put on weight. Chocolate from eating and Spinning from sitting. 🥰🤔 Those chocolates look sooo good!!! Hope you all have a fun day tomorrow. Happy Spinning and TDF 🐏 🚲 Take care and stay safe Fibre Friend Lots of love Jen xxxx 💖 🧡❣🐑🐏🫂

[@ExpertlyDyed]

Lol. If you ever want a taste, you can order through our website. :) If you've ever gotten into spinning from having been a knitter/weaver/crocheter, you used skills gained from those crafts and transferred them into spinning. And you understood more about both crafts through the doing part. It took me a little while to recognize what factors to look for to see whether chocolate was tempered, but now I know. And I learned it very quickly (my supervisors were impressed). Doing crafts literally makes us smarter because we're connecting our brains and bodies together.

[@jenniferbrighty5120]

@@ExpertlyDyed Hi Jennifer, You're right, I'd not thought about all the Crafts we do going into the chocolate. Yeah they're all crafts we do by hand. We take so many things for granted. Its only when someone points something out that we realise what we do with our hands. I already eat way too much chocolate. Hope you have a good day tomorrow. Take care and stay safe Love Jen xxxx 💖 ❣🐑🐏❣❤

[@ExpertlyDyed]

@@jenniferbrighty5120 It's something I talk about in my thesis. Where does expertise lie, and how do we gain it? We try to get a view into an ancient mind to understand other social elements (like, the difference between epistemology and ontology), but even the researcher needs a dose of craft works to begin to event grasp the depth of detail required form that research. I think about this a lot because it fascinates me, but it's not until it's pointed it out that that we stop and actually think about it. 😀 Chocolate keeps us young and there's actual science backing up the health benefits!