Dear Spinning Circle,

April showers bring May flowers! I hope your gardens are blooming in the Northern Hemisphere and those in the Southern, I hope you have had a chance to put your gardens to be for the winter!

We have some conflicts on the calendar this month – namely, Maker Morning. Watch for that moving to a different day (probably Monday) due to my schedule!

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For those who can’t connect Google Calendar (share link here), this is the snapshot of the month ahead:

 Remember that things are changed sometimes to accomodate my schedule.

Links to Zoom groups hosted in the community (excluding Spinning Staples & Queries) are posted about 15 minutes prior in the Slack channel, #general.

Happening this Month …

Wool n’ Spinning Radio

This month, I sat down and asked Rebecca all about getting ready to be travelling for 5 months, projects and preparation that she did to get ready and more! Tune in where you catch all your audio podcasts or check it out here.

If you would like to be featured on Wool n’ Spinning Radio, have a story to tell or want to discuss your making, please reach out to Rachel. You can leave a comment below or message her privately!

The Wool Circle & Spinning Staples

• Previous Wool Circles can be found easily here 
• Spinning Staples meetings can be found here for members of Staplers 
• All collections are found here

Rebecca and I are continuing on our 2-year Book Study Journey of Sarah Anderson’s The Book of Yarn Designs. The syllabus for Part II of our journey is here.

• The Wool Circle | Singles & Show n’ Tell (streaming May 14)
• The Wool Circle | Reflections on Rebecca’s Large Project (Track 2) & Maryland Sheep & Wool (streaming May 28)

Spinning Staples will be meeting to deep dive into these concepts on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday this month, specifially May 8 & 22 @ 12noon Pacific. Zoom links will be posted the day prior on both Patreon and in Slack, within the private #spinning-staples group.

Spinning Purls

• Spinner’s Book of Yarn 2024 posts can be easily found here
• Last year’s Year of Colour posts can be found here
• Previous 51 Yarns Spin Along posts and PDFs can be found here
• All collections are found here

I have recieved quite a bit of feedback from people within the community about going back and revisiting some of this archived content – thank you! I’m glad it’s been so valuable!

Coming this month // Links coming soon! Published on Sundays @ 2am Pacific

Spinning Singles here (coming May 5th)

Contrasting Singles here (coming May 12th)

All About Singles here (coming May 19th)

Spinning Flax Singles here (coming May 26th)

In Other News //

Norah is learning a new skill in her final term this year and has to present on it in June. She’s decided to learn how to crochet so we’re going to do it together! I’m actually pretty excited and have raided my stash – more on the coming episodes of the podcast (Ep. 289 & 290).

I’m also reading Elana Armas’ new book, The Long Game – very funny and lighthearted here.

Thank for reading – until next time,

Happy Spinning!

Rachel