Dear Spinning Circle,
Happy August! We have an exciting episode today with lots of giveaways for Tour De Fleece!
Drect YouTube Link here
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Link to SPAKALs 2024 Information here
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Spinner’s Book of Yarn Designs Book Study 2024/2025
- Welcoming 2024 Post here
- Welcoming 2024 for The Wool Circle & Spinning Staples here
- Year of Yarn 2024 Syllabus: Part I (Back to Basics) here
- Year of Yarn 2024 Syllabus: Part II (Stunning Singles) here
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- Ketchup & Pickles for July 2024 here
- Queries & Explorations is a chance to come together to discuss projects, ideas & trouble-shooting in our making. For more information, check out the Queries tier on Patreon here.
- Recent Tutorial on how to use Ravelry & Slack
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In the show today …
Fibre Preparation & Spinning
Unboxing new motorized carder – Fancy Kitty Little Tom Wide
- Romney blend with seacell – playing with percentages
Rideau-Arcott/Charolais Cross – re-washed & started picking to lock pop
- Majacraft Rose 27:1
- Continuous backwards draft, with light smoothing
- Aiming for a multi-ply yarn, 3- or 4-ply
Corriedale/Targhee Cross – re-washed & started picking to lock pop
- carded as a large batt, then into smaller nests of fibre for spinning
CraftyJaks Targhee & Smith+Ewe Organic Polwarth+Silk & Sari Silk – 2/3 to 1/3 targhee to Polwarth
- Included 2% sari silk for texture and interest
- Carded 3-4 times for blending – need to re-blend the nests one more time of recent blend
- Plied as Hawser yarn – 4-ply, knitted swatch with more to up-ply & ply
Spindling
Hello Yarn Falkland in ‘Village Fete’ – spindle spun; 2-ply with copious singles leftover …. ?? what to do {Ravelry Project Page here}
K-Nitting
Jethro by Tanis Lavallee – SweetGeorgia Yarns Sheep Breeds Kit including all different wools spun and plied for SOS Workshop here & learning to crochet here, 3.5mm / E hook {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!
