To get the conversations started, I've created 20 questions to answer. This is just intended to get conversations flowing and beginning connections made, so if you don't want to answer a question, just skip it; if you want to add something else, please do! If you'd like to include information like age and gender identity, which city you live in, etc. feel free to do so. Feel free to answer the questions in whatever method you prefer -- a bullet list, an "About Me" essay, a poem, whatever!
1. Which fiber craft activities do you participate in (i.e. weaving, spinning, knitting, yarn dyeing, crocheting, etc.)? Do you have a favorite?
2. Are there any fiber craft activities that you'd love to try, but you haven't yet?
3. Do you have a favorite fiber craft technique that you absolutely love? (i.e. you LOVE spinning with a drop spindle, or you ONLY knit garter, or dyeing speckles is your WHOLE world)
4. What is your occupation? Are you a business owner? What is your dream occupation?
5. Describe yourself using only five words.
6. What is your favorite beverage (hot or cold)?
7. What is your favorite season of the year?
8. Do you like to travel? If so, where is your favorite place that you've visited? What is your biggest dream bucket list location to visit?
9. If you had to choose five things to live with for the rest of your life, what would you choose? (Be creative! It can be a food, a hobby, a person, an item, a book, etc.)
10. Do you participate in crafts or hobbies not related to the fiber arts?
11. Do you have pets? children?
12. What is your favorite music genre? song? TV series? movie? author? book?
13. Which country do you live in? Do you like where you live, or are you looking to move?
14. What is your hidden talent that most people don't know about?
15. What is your favorite quote/life motto? What is one thing you would tell your younger self?
16. What are you most proud about yourself? What is something you'd love to change?
17. What are five things you value most in a friend?
18. Do you hate introduction/ice breaker games and activities like 20-questions surveys? (I feel like this is pretty common among introverts!)
19. What is your favorite social media platform? What is your name/ there?
20. What is your biggest fiber-related dream? (It can be attending an event, learning a technique, meeting a person, or whatever you want!)
1. In which fiber craft activities do you participate: I like to spin, wet felt, and crochet. I dabble in more - rug hooking, punch needle, pin loom weaving but these 3 are my favorites.
2. Are there any fiber craft activities that you'd love to try, but you haven't yet? Yes - painting, but I trying to limit what I do because i'll start many projects and finish none of them if I don't.
3. Do you have a favorite fiber craft technique that you absolutely love? (i.e. you LOVE spinning with a drop spindle, or you ONLY knit garter, or dyeing speckles is your WHOLE world) Nope., it would be easier to keep it under control if I did.
4. What is your occupation? Financial Analyst / Project Manager
Are you a business owner? I am a consulting company of one.
What is your dream occupation? I don't have one - I like doing little bit of everything and don't like to just do one thing or type of work.
5. Describe yourself using only five words. Curious, love data, loyal, ethical, direct.
6. What is your favorite beverage (hot or cold)? Coffee - aka the elixir of life.
7. What is your favorite season of the year? Summer
8. Do you like to travel? Yes
If so, where is your favorite place that you've visited? Iceland
What is your biggest dream bucket list location to visit? Iceland
9. If you had to choose five things to live with for the rest of your life, what would you choose? (Be creative! It can be a food, a hobby, a person, an item, a book, etc.)
1. My Husband
2. My Sister
3. My Best Friend
4 & 5 My Dogs
10. Do you participate in crafts or hobbies not related to the fiber arts? Not regularly - but I do enjoy pottery.
11. Do you have pets? children? 2 Mastiffs, no children - by choice
12. What is your favorite music genre? I like all types of music from classical to rap to EDM. No particular favorite song, TV series: Modern Family/Big Bang Movie: I like any James Bond movie - prefer the older ones but do like Daniel Craig as Bond.
13. Which country do you live in? I live in Germany
Do you like where you live. No,
Are you looking to move? Yes, but the move back to the US was interrupted by Coronavirus....very sad.
14. What is your hidden talent that most people don't know about? Spinning and felting - I'm direct, factual, and very data driven, when people find out I love to spin and felt they are shocked.
15. What is your favorite quote/life motto? "You will NEVER hear me apologize for being an American."
What is one thing you would tell your younger self? You were right, being an adult is way better than being a child.
16. What are you most proud about yourself? That I am successful despite my parents. What is something you'd love to change? Be a little more social.
17. What are five things you value most in a friend? Loyalty, ethics, truthfulness, good sense of humor and a love of whiskey.
18. Do you hate introduction/ice breaker games and activities like 20-questions surveys? (I feel like this is pretty common among introverts!) Nope makes things easier.
19. What is your favorite social media platform? Instagram
What is your name/ there? I have 3 - one for my dogs: graciejanekm ; one for my travels travelin_fun ; and one for my fiberliousness jr_fiber_art
20. What is your biggest fiber-related dream? (It can be attending an event, learning a technique, meeting a person, or whatever you want!) Find someone I can do my fiberlicousness with - in person would be great but facetime is good too.