Category: Spinning
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 […]
Wheel and Shearing!
Saturday, I had arranged to meet someone from the internet to buy their spinning wheel and yarn winder. The spinning wheel is a Canadian production wheel, big beautiful spinning wheels from the late 1800s into the early 1900s made in Quebec. I’m also very excited about the yarn winder, no more using my pvc niddy noddy […]
Misc
Other than the incredible yardage I’ve been plying for a little bit at a time. That is taking a while. That project is the Lincoln longwool (4oz) and Coopworth (8oz), that I got as washed fleece, combed and spun incredibly fine in matching thickness to be for future tablet weaving projects because the lincoln is […]
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. […]
Electric Wheel!
It arrived!!! I’m making this post two weeks after it arrived but hey, whatever. I backed the Electric Eel Wheel 6.0 Kickstarter back in June 2020. From what I can tell from the updates, for the most part everything went smoothly with production and there was only a month delay from the estimated delivery due […]
Minor Revelations
If using wool and you spin it with twist, you need a ply to even the twists out and not get something that crinkles in knitting or weaving. If you do a low twist single, you won’t need the ply but it is generally a thicker yarn that is used for soft garments and won’t […]
First Fleece!
First fleece down! I started out with 1 pound 8 ounces of washed Shetland fleece. The listing said the locks were 2-3 inches long, they were actually 4-5 inches long. Since I only had hand cards, I struggled for a bit to figure out how to do this. Plus it was my first time doing […]
Weaving Project #2
I made another thing! The only thing I’m not happy about is the braided ends and that was only so I could take it off the dowels and figure out what to do with it. I had planned for it to be a bracelet but as it turns out, I know nothing of how to […]
Flax Gem
Found a flax gem on a forum: “Classic European way to spin line is on a low-whorl or all-in-one spindle with either a body-braced or a free-standing distaff and grasped or very short suspended. Using the traditional tools makes a big difference here. The ancient Egyptian way to spin flax was to select fibers from […]