I started working on a fleece. So I bought a washed shetland fleece a few weeks ago and the hand cards back in December. Hand cards were $45 with shipping and that was a great deal. I planned to get some in March or April but the price was good. The fleece was a 1 […]
Category: Spinning
Today’s Interesting Read
Reproduction Textiles! Link here.I’m currently working my way through the research paper that is linked in the text and describes the piece that the reproduction is based on. The paper is fascinating too!
Hmmm
I said I was going to wait until march to buy fiber prep equipment but a set of hand cards popped up for $45 including shipping aaaaaand I’m getting them I have also found some washed fleeces in weird corners of the internet so I know they are out there. I haven’t ordered any yet. […]
Quarantine Sweater
I started with two braids (8oz total) from Llady Llama Fiber Co, colorway was Clockwork on their Targhee base. I went looking for the pictures of the braids and I took those March 22nd. I pulled apart the braids, spun them as a gradient and made a 2 ply fingering weight yarn. I crocheted it […]
Fiber Resolution
So I’ve been wanting to buy some fleeces and start processing fleece to spin. As of right now, I have somewhere around 9-10 pounds of fiber that is currently spinable and available in my stash. I hadn’t realize I acquired that much but time flies. I know my stash is small compared to a lot […]
Fiber roundup
Let’s see if the pictures work since I c/p from pillowfort where they were posted I haven’t posted about fiber I’ve spun since I was in the doldrums of the Romeldale/CVM in June. As it turns out, it wanted to be spun very fine and you can spin 1000 yards of 2 ply yarn from 4oz […]
Extravagance at virtual MDSW
Made an extravagant purchase of roving to spin. Like, a huge amount in comparison to what I normally get. But fuck it. I got 16 news breeds to try spinning which is very exciting.
Fiber roundup
It has been Some Time since my last spinning roundup. I did many things in the past almost two months. Spinning has been a wonderful distraction, especially when work is slow but I might need to stop and answer emails. Merino, the colorway was southwest succulents. I chain plyed it to keep the colors together. […]
Fiber Roundup
I finished a bunch of fiber last weekend. Finishing is the actual process of hot soaking spun yarn to set the twist, poof it up if it’s prone to it and get the full characteristics of the yarn set before used as a finished product. So I did some of the project fibers that I’ve […]
Fav dyer
my favorite fiber dyer has just discontinued the base fiber that I liked so much :'( they’re switching entirely to merino or blends with nylon, which. fine I guess. They just aren’t my favorite to spin because they are much better suited to short draw and I only really do long draw. You can long […]