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My name is Ricky Tan and I am 9 years old. I'm in 4th grade. I am in Boy Scouts, Tae Kwon Do, and I play piano and clarinet. I know how to crochet and knit a little and I just learned how to weave on a floor loom in my 4th grade class at school. My sister taught me how to spin. I started on a drop spindle by The Dreaming Tree [an eBay seller]. It was made out of green clay and wood. Now, I spin on a "Nhewyt's Dragon" by Wooly Designs. I am spinning faster and better now with a heavier spindle. Spinning is getting easier the more I practice. I like to spin at home, and sometimes I spin in the car or at my Grandma's house! Black, orange and red are my favorite colors to spin. My last ball of yarn that I spun was different oranges and about 69 yards. I kind of like measuring all of our homemade yarns. First, I measure inches, then I covert the inches into yards with a calculator. I name my yarns after elements on the Periodic Table of Elements because someday I want to become a geologist and a chemist. My first few yarns were named, "Chromium," "Xenon," and "Ununoctium." I enjoy spinning and I will sell most of my yarns online starting in June at www.goshyarnit.com. They will be called, "Ricky's Element Yarns."
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