Sentences with phrase «spinning yarn»

Mountains of Napa Valley, CA About Blog Posts about Spinning Yarn written by Jen.

As a loan officer with Manufacturers Bank in downtown Los Angeles in the early 1970s, he learned the entire manufacturing process from spinning yarn to retail delivery and every aspect in between.

The lobbyists and check writers worked hard spinning the yarn that the richest and most pollution - intensive industrialists on earth were concerned about climate change and wanted to cut carbon emissions — but they didn't convince everybody.

Previously presented in past exhibitions as posters and graphics, the vinyl wall - drawings show a character spinning yarn and two dogs.

She is literally spinning the yarn of her life: ancient diary entries, love letters, childhood memories, conversations she's never forgotten.

Rob Marshall brings the Sondheim musical to the screen, spinning a yarn that knots Brothers Grimm tales together and sees Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick and Chris Pine playing recognizable fairy tale characters.

But the art of telling a non-fiction narrative effectively can be as challenging as spinning a yarn from whole cloth, if not more so.

Spinning a yarn.

So there you have it, you can take this area of craft as far as you like, go collecting fleece from barb wire fences and hills and go through the whole process from cleaning, carding and spinning the yarn all by yourself.

It's the perfect genre of crafting for me because I can be totally into knitting one week, then spend a week dyeing, then spend a week spinning yarn, then start all over again.

She tells us how, by spinning yarn from old newspapers, she is able to turn bad news stories into something good.

For example, here's a dead simple guide to crafting compelling stories for those who don't have the natural gift of spinning a yarn.

But that still leaves about a dozen slides with which we can spin our yarn about what the world looks like now and what it will look like when we've executed our vision.

Evie won't ever know my Granny but we tell her stories like we tell stories of my father's parents and we spin the yarn of their family stories so that they feel like they belong, like they know their place in the story, so they know it didn't start with them, it won't end with them, and there is a kind of love that doesn't show up in the movies.

Sometimes the idea of starting a commune somewhere in the Interior where I can spin yarn, homeschool, and make my own soap all while having my fingers stuffed in my ears sounds pretty good.

«I am not going to spin yarns, it's not clear what his situation is.»

when are players going to get pissed off spinning yarns.

When I was a little girl I used to sit at the local fairs and watch the lovely ladies spin yarn on their spinning wheels.

As an adult, I was still fascinated by someones ability to take a pile of wool and create yarn, and then a sweater or scarf or hat... So, I bought a spinning wheel and learned how to spin yarn.

When I started to spin yarn I had people asking to buy my yarn.

The clothing and hand spun yarn in her Etsy shop is gorgeous!

The care and attention that goes into a hand spun yarn results in an extremely good quality product, with few imperfections which will knit or weave beautifully for a fabulous finish.

Quince and Company spins yarn from American wool at a mill in Biddeford, Maine.

WharfdaleWoolWorks gave me a run down of what you need to dye yarn, «Basic ingedients for dyeing are plant or animal fibres or ready spun yarn, dyes, salt, fixers and water.

Lulastic and the Hippyshake: Lulastic spins the yarns of her travelling, nappyfree, eco family.

Unlike traditional wool, the finesse of the Merino fiber allows for a very fine spun yarn and knit fabric.

I think it turned out really cute (and is uber decadent in MCN Julie Spins yarn).

Spin your yarn Chairwoman Li but people in this community stopped listening or believing in CB3 a long time ago.

Following Blair for a start... one thing you could never criticise Blair for was that he could spin a yarn and tell a story.»

Gottschall, who studies the link between literature and science, argues that our penchant for spinning yarns developed, as with other behaviors, to enhance our survival.

I spin yarn make baskets from gathereref materials, paper, cordage My full time job is in an auto supply factory.

We develop and manufacture breed - specific yarns that support domestic textile production — designing, sourcing, dyeing and spinning our yarns within the USA.

The Borgias, Season 2, Episode 8: Back in Rome, Juan flaunts a wounded leg and spins a yarn about his valiant conduct at his army's defeat at Forli.

Just as quick to back out of a fight as he is to spin a yarn about himself, Gulliver shows what a small person he really is.

It establishes, for him and for us, the need for storytelling of a more conventional sort: Captured at last by his camera crew and, naturally enough, sentenced to death for having abandoned them, Gomes endeavors to absolve himself by his only available means — spinning yarns so compelling that it will quell the urge to kill him.

He has a sagelike quality, spinning yarns about a woman on trial for murdering her husband or invoking Euclid to make moral sense of how to handle the Confederate delegation en route to Washington, using these ostensible digressions to illuminate truths he presents as self - evident.

It's also a film about a man prone to spinning yarns, droning on to those around him with story after story, using the parables to make a given point.

The old man mistakenly, perhaps intentionally, sees the connection between the boy's «Lone Ranger» hat and mask and spins a yarn about the real Lone Ranger, taking the tale of an era when the Native, revealed to be cohort Tonto (Depp, Dark Shadows), was a much younger man, and one of the last of the proud Comanche tribe.

An extension of the series, Demon Knight sees the Crypt Keeper spin a yarn (though not directly culled from the EC Comics series) about a man on the run from The Collector.

But is he really naive that what he's doing is wrong, or is this all an act... another lie to try to cover up the fact that he enjoys spinning yarns to woo the crowd into adulation?

In the film, McDormand's Marge is contacted out of the blue by an old school friend who spins her a yarn about how his wife has died from leukaemia.

It's all in service of a tall tale being told by an ancient Indian (Johnny Depp) who may or may not be Tonto, a sideshow attraction who spins this yarn to a little boy (Mason Cook) wearing a Lone Ranger get - up in a fair in 1930s San Francisco.

Edward (played as an older man by Albert Finney) has spent his life spinning these yarns for anyone who would listen.

The tone lets you know that it's all meant to be silly fun, though the extreme violence does seem at odds with the overall effect of the comedy, as does his attempt for his characters to find a semblance of goodness despite the amoral way in which Black spins his yarn.

An impressive and talented supporing cast includes Aidan Gillen as the atheist doctor with a dark side, Chris O'Dowd as the local butcher, Orla O'Rourke as his unfaitful wife about town, Isaach DeBankola as one of her chums, Dylan Moran as the conflicted local rich boy, Killian Scott as the frustrated virginal local, Domhnall Gleeson (Brendan's son) as an incarcerated serial killer, and the always great M Emmet Walsh — back on screen as the local old timer who spins yarns and enjoys attention.

«Sweet - talkin» liar, spin me a yarn, tell me a story big as a barn» sends us back to all the lies the two - timing characters have been telling one another over the previous three hours.

Perhaps you have a relative that loves to spin a yarn or two, or maybe it is you, yourself, who recounts the family's memories and stories.

While some can spin a yarn with ease, our talents lie elsewhere.

Opponents of charter schools like to spin the yarn that charter schools can afford to be picky while public schools have to take all comers.

So despite being funded 30 % less than district public schools, you continue to spin a yarn that charters are getting more than other schools.