Dear Spinning Circle,
Welcome to our LAST stream of the year for the regular podcast (don’t worry – we have ONE more Wool Circle left!).
Live Stream: Tuesday, December 4th @ 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm GMT
Direct YouTube Link here
Recent Tutorial on how to use Ravelry & Slack – requests were made for help!
Ketchup & Pickles for November 2023 here (December coming later this week!)
CoreSpin Along
* wrapping up at the end of this month! *
In October, Rebecca and I sat down with Crystal Hesser to come together with a textured-yarn spin-along to finish the year. Share your photos, your favourite corespun projects you’ve made and just HAVE FUN! Let’s make a bunch of corespun yarn to celebrate all things textured yarns!
Use the tag #corespinalong for sharing your projects. More information is here.
I hope you enjoy this ALONG with us – even if you just spin a little bit to give the technique a try, I encourage you to do so! Click here to listen.
Spindling
100 Days of Spindle Spinning – Started on Dec 1st, Keeping track in my Instagram highlights/stories here, working through lots of rolags!
Crafty Jaks Boutique BFL Gradient Set – · 11 colours, into the blending board, adding clear firestar {Ravelry Page here}
Spinning
SweetGeorgia BFL ‘Wistmas’ – Prepping fibre with handcards, pulling through diz; 2 braids to prep – spin each in 1/4s, ply; Majacraft Suzie – lower ratio for lighter, loftier yarn – not so high twist in the singles {Ravelry Project Page here}
Skeined!
CraftyJaks Boutique Organic Polwarth, Tussah & Sari Silk – Support spindle spun; lovely rolags – pre-drafting to lengthen out the fibres since there are so many per rolag! Too much to deal with while spinning; ripping off a chunk and dealing with that and repeat; 500+ yards of yarn, 4-ply {Ravelry Project Page here}
Knitting
Espace Tricot Turtledove II – Garnstudio Drops Air (baby alpaca-merino), 4.5mm & 5.5mm (US 7 & 9) {Ravelry Project Page here}
FO’s (Finished Objects)
Trinigan by Andrea Mowry – Gathering Yarns Haynes Creek Heathers DK; Combo Spin handspun – Three Waters Farm with unlabelled fibre; 3.5mm/4.00mm (US 6 & 7) needles {Ravelry Project Page here}
Looming (ie. Weaving)
Confetti Towels by Webs in 8/2 cotton: varigated & grey – Louet Spring 20EPI {Ravelry Project Page here}
Community 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!
