Dear Spinning Circle,
Welcome to another stream! We have a mountain of things to cover today – I have been experiencing castonitis, startitis and all the -itis of a fast-approaching Fall, feeling inspired and fresh.
Live Stream: Tuesday, August 22nd @ 10am Pacific / 12noon Central / 1pm Eastern / 6pm GMT
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Community News
- School of SweetGeorgia Spinning Luxury Fibres: Goats & Rare Workshop release here
- Previous Episodes re. Combo-Spinning here and here (preparing the fibre), spinning the fibre here
- Suspended Spindling demonstration here of FatCatKnits Falkland – Bosworth spindle-spun
- Recent Tutorial on how to use Ravelry & Slack – requests were made for help!
Attune Shawl Along
Ask Anything
Ravelry thread here to ask questions, bounce ideas & comment
On & Off the Bobbins
Skeined!
SweetGeorgia Yarns Polwarth + Silk, in “Tea Party”, “Woodland”, “Grouse”; not original idea – spun this yarn for Dye to Spin and Knit by Felicia Lo {Ravelry Project Page here}
- Swatching for Weekender Light by Andrea Mowry; 3.5mm (US 7) needles
Kainuu Harmaa from Amber; lock pop to open the locks, then carded, spun continuous backwards with gentle smoothing; Lendrum DT, 2-ply {Ravelry Project Page here}
Spindling (#spindlespunsummer)
- Ongoing throughout the summer until the Autumnal Equinox – be sure to share your progress!
Spinning
Dorset Fleece – from Fleece Auction Summer 2019
Exploring Sheep Fleece | Spinning Purls Vlog here
- Sampled by creating a 3-ply yarn to see where to go from here
- Lock popped open, then combed
- Used Peter Teal’s approach to combing – 6ml water : 6ml oil
- Spun as singles: Majacraft 27:1
- Thought I was putting way too much twist into the yarn!
- Chain-plied – Perfect post washing!
- Next step – swatch
On & Off the Needles
K-nitting
Trinigan by Andrea Mowry – Three Waters Farm & unlabelled Falkland combo spin {Ravelry Project Page here} with Gathering Yarns Haynes Creek Heathers DK in 411 Pink; 3.5mm & 4.00mm (US 6 & 7) needles {Ravelry Projects Page here}
Amalia Cardigan by Shiny Super Hero – combination of many yarns from my stash in fingering weight; intarsia method of construction; 4.5mm (US 7) needles {Ravelry Project Page here}
Community Inspiration // Participation
As always, thank you to those who share in the community, uploading photos and thoughts about what you are working on! I appreciate it – it’s my pleasure to be able to share!
Thank you so much for joining me today!
Until then, Happy Making!
