I built a stool for my loom. Not for weaving, but for threading the loom. Turns out, most people remove the loom beater and sit in the loom. Since I needed the stool to straddle the treadles and the frame but not be super tall so the heddles were at eye level. Set up in the basement […]
Category: Fiber
New England Fiber Festival
Saturday, I went to New England Fiber Festival, which is an indoor festival because it’s in Massachusetts in November. Except it was 70F and so hot. I wore my light sweater anyway because it’s great. There were so many vendors there. This was the first time I bought from a fleece sale and it was […]
Assortments of Goings On
I went over and taught a friend how to use my little electric wheel since she’s been struggling to manage a wheel that is cranky and treadles and learn the mechanics of spinning all at once. I spun and carded fleece. We had family dinner at the farm after and I was absolutely stuffed full […]
Fiber Roundup
This is a bunch of stuff I’ve done in the past few months. This is a project that was mostly practicing different techniques, I warped up two warps per heddle loop so I could do a 2 by 2 pattern. I also did pickup techniques which is what the V pattern is at the top. […]
Baby Camel
Oh baby camel. So soft, so warm, so shiny! And a pain in the butt for me. This was the angora all over again. It has a 1 inch staple. It was a very slippery fiber, very similar to angora. I had to treadle very slowly, I put very little twist in and it didn’t […]
Manx Loaghtan
This was an interesting fiber to spin. It has a 2-3 inch staple was was an extremely high close crimp fiber. I will say, it didn’t make the smoothest yarn, definitely better for outerwear or non-skin applications. It did long draw very well and was pretty enjoyable to spin. It needed low takeup, average to […]
Jacob
This came in the sampler pack but I’ve spun some other than that and I really enjoy it. The fiber in the sampler pack has a 4 inch staple but I’ve spun some 2 inch as well and both were lovely. It long draws like a dream! It catches on itself and draws out beautifully. […]
Corriedale
This Corriedale came in the sampler pack and before I wrote this up, I bought some from my local yarn shop which is also a sheep farm. I love it! The staple is 3.5 to 6 inches, generally on the longer side. It has tons of tiny crimp to it but doesn’t catch quite as […]
Zwartbles
Zwartbles, which is a very nice name, was wonderful to spin. It has a 4-5 inch staple. While it was mostly soft, there is a characteristic to it that is a little bit wirey. I got it in the sampler pack. When I was spinning, it needed less twist than average because it didn’t need […]
Angora (Rabbit)
I bought the rabbit Angora from Wooly Spruce Farmstead and I bought two ounces of it. It is soft as a cloud and very nice. I don’t have great pictures of it because I was tired but maybe I’ll update it at some point. An ounce of Angora roving is A Lot! It was a […]