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[โ€“] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is exactly what it's like becoming a hobby machinist. Start off with a drill press, end up making all your own tools.

[โ€“] greenbean@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] nogrub@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yep and if it's your job all you wanna do is buy a mill and a laith but money and space :(

[โ€“] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is always space, I have seen guys turn their kitchen into a machine shop, lol.

[โ€“] nogrub@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

i'm doing an second apprenticeship as a programmmer so i don't have the money to even own my own kitchen :(

[โ€“] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beware the pipeline

[โ€“] ickplant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Knitting: the gateway drug.

[โ€“] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

I am in the picture and I do not like it

[โ€“] WenAmon@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can also branch out into gardening flax, cotton, hemp, reseda, krapp and indigo ...

[โ€“] swan_pr@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I may have fallen into a rabbit hole of tutorials on this very topic (growing and spinning flax). So. Many. Traps.

[โ€“] Xkok@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ewe now own the means of production!

[โ€“] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] thegiddystitcher@artisan.chat 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@QTpi @ickplant Not to be a terrible influence here but omg, so fluffy! ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] ickplant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lovely fluffies indeed!

[โ€“] ickplant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Do it. Iโ€™m the devil on your shoulder today.

[โ€“] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goats do seem to be the natural end point on the journey that starts by learning to cast on.

[โ€“] ickplant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If only someone would have warned me before my first stitch!

[โ€“] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Haven't gotten the sheep yet...

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife has reached everything but the shepherd stage.

[โ€“] ickplant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Beware, sheep may be in your future. Or maybe a nice alpaca?

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have a dog that would torment either. But I wouldn't mind saving money on lawn maintenance.

[โ€“] ickplant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmmmm, I wonder if you can spin yarn out of dog furโ€ฆ

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't see why not. See my comment below about our old dog. :)