Fiber LUUUUUUV
Ya’ll have been right patient, so here ya go, pictures of the (unspun) fiber love from Zib the Extraordinary, Zib the Generous, Zib the Insane in All the Right Ways:
Bottom-whorl drop spindle. Now, this is the opposite of Zib’s spindle which is, I guess, a top-whorl spindle, but I’m sure I can find some videos online about how to spin with it.
Let’s see if I can remember what this stuff is…the white stuff is silk tops (as opposed to silk hankies)…um, or IS it hankies?…no, I’m pretty sure it’s not hankies….don’t remember what the brown stuff is (Help! Zib!). It’s very soft, though, so it might be mohair. I don’t think it’s camel. Wait! I remember now — it’s alpaca! Yupp. That’s why it’s so soft.
These little guys 
are silkworm cocoons. Zib has better pictures (of course).
Oh, dear. I foolishly recycled the paper that came with this. Hang on a moment….(dashes to laundry room)…uh, yupp. Hang on….(looks at pippikneesocks’ web site)…OK, I’m 90% sure this is wool top. Aren’t the colors gorgeous? Should I spin it, design something for it, and call it Zib? or Catania? or Commie Bar? (Oh, wait; that would need to be red.) If it were yellow, I could call it Limoncello…
OK, the spindle is there for size reference. There’s no way I could do the color justice. Here in my lame picture, it looks grey. Nope, it’s a wonerful deep charcoalpurpleishwonderfulishwithvaryingshadeofitself color. I’m pretty sure it’s either mohair or a wool/mohair blend. Soooo soft, as in you want to floof it and roll around on it.
Now, to get up the guts to actually DO something with it! 
Kiddo, come give this signora some lessons; she forgot already!
These are called 45’s because they are meant to be played at 45 revolutions per minute. They were also called “singles” because there was a single song on each side. Typically, the A side held the more popular song, but once in a while, the B side song was actually better. 
We now move into records containing more than one song. The two pictured here are quite rare, as the musicians were virtually unknown outside their local region and were what was known as “a flash in the pan”. The one on the left is autographed on the back by one of the musicians to “Erica” on the occasion of her birthday. We suspect that “Erica” attended the University of California because these musicians were not known outside the Berkeley area. The one on the right is a bit older and is special because it is what was known as an extended-play record, or an EP. It only contains four songs. We suspect that “Erica” must have moved or travelled, as this group was not known outside of the area of Southern California known as The South Bay.
Most of these are fairly typical for a female of “Erica’s” suspected age during that time period. The anomalies are the Godfrey Cambridge, John Lee Hooker, and Mark Levine albums. Because of labels affixed to the backs of these, we suspect that “Erica” was of an age to be still living at home with her parents, because the labels indicate ownership by a married couple with the same last name she had. Hence, we are fairly certain that, for one reason or another, a few of her parents’ albums somehow made their way into her collection.
This is one of the most puzzling groupings, which experts have yet to figure out. While it is common to find both Godspell and Hair in the same collection because they are both soundtracks from Broadway musicals, it is highly unusual to find the three other albums in the same collection as Hair, as they are all three what was known as “dorky religious music”….Yes, what was your question?…Oh, WHY was it so unusual?…Well, you see, the Hair album has songs glorifying illicit drug use and one which is little more than a listing of technical terms for different sex acts. Moving on…
The Willie Nelson album is a bit of an anomaly, but because of the label found on the back, we believe was misplaced in this collection and actually belonged to “Erica’s” parents.
These are fairly typical. There is evidence to suggest that “Erica” went through a period in her very young teens of only listening to music by The Beatles.
These are very puzzling to us. Again, one of the albums appears to have belonged to “Erica’s” parents. These three albums, if found separate from the others, when discovered in such close proximity to San Francisco, would have suggested that the owner was a gay male. Some have suggested that “Erica” was actually “Eric”, but this theory has not found much acceptance in the academic community.
Again, most of these are fairly typical for someone “Erica’s” age to have in her collection, especially the series on the right. On the far left is a very rare album by someone named Tony Joe White, who was only popular for a very short time. We suspect that it belongs with the Willie Nelson album. The main anomaly in this grouping is A Sea For Yourself. We find no indication in her other belongings that indicate that “Erica” was a surfer, yet she had the soundtrack for a little-known surfing movie in her collection. Experts are puzzled by this and have promoted various hypotheses to explain its presence, the most popular of which is that “Erica’s” family was somehow connected with someone involved in the movie….Yes? Question?…Oh yes, very good: Jesus Christ Superstar was another soundtrack album. This one actually belongs in one of the earlier pictures, as it too seems to have belonged to “Erica’s” parents.
