Article: Have You Thrummed Your Life?
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Have You Thrummed Your Life?
What on earth is ?thrumming?? Well, it?s a term from knitting. It?s when you knit little pieces of unspun fleece or ?roving? into your project, let?s say, for instance, the mittens you?re knitting.
Unspun fleece is a lovely and fundamental thing, unprocessed and in its natural state. The sort of thing that, like character, adds body to something else. Unspun fleece joined to your thread of acrylic, cotton or wool yarn add body to the finished product, much as character adds body to the personality of a person.
To thrum something, you work these wisps of fleece into your project, and the result is a mitten, let?s say, that?s very soft on the inside, and far warmer than it would?ve been without the thrumming. In other words, it?s insulation!
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