Dear Spinning Circle,

As seems to be the case at this time of year, the days are just flying by! I celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving with a few dear friends over breakfast at an amazing bakery in Vancouver, BC:

A lot has been released already this month, please check the Slack Channel #general for updates & links, as well as Ketchup & Pickles (housekeeping) here. This month is PACKED FULL of great info for you all!

Direct YouTube Link here

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YouTube Playlists for Episodes 314 – 324 here

YouTube Playlists for Episodes 303 – 313 here

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Remember that beginning November 2025, Dionne will host a monthly ZOOM group (Colour Maniacs Zoom). This will be available for patrons in the Spinning Staples ZOOM group tier, as well as, the Studious Spinner tier, on Patreon. Space will be limited.

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Dionne sat Rebecca & Rachel down to quiz them about Knit City Vancouver 2025. Rebecca & Rachel had spent the weekend exploring the marketplace, meeting with everyone in our community & of course, shopping. We share some of the trends we noticed emerge this year, including maching knitting, crochet (yay!) and more. Lots of fleece talk this month – we fell into a bit of a rabbit hole at the end of the show about a property of wool that Melissa (MellyKnits) and Rachel have been exploring with increasing interest, along with Dionne and her fibre blending experiments, called porosity (skip to ~45 minutes to listen to just this discussion).

Listen to Wool n’ Spinning Radio where you listen to your audio podcasts or here. RSS feed for the show is here.

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There is a lot going on in the community at the moment – please take a moment to read over the Ketchup & Pickles (Housekeeping) post for this month. Please leave comments with questions so that I can help you navigate! Remember that the On-boarding call this month will be Wednesday, October 29 @ 12noon PDT. Check Patreon the day before for links.

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Textured Yarn Spinning – Corespun, Supercoils & Boucle

Rebecca is continuing to explore all the textued yarn spinning in The Wool Circle – she covered an amazing Supercoil Beaded yarn this past week, along with an incredible boucle that she washed, prepped & spun from fleece.

There are copious resources in the community of previous teaching content on this yarn. Check it all out below! And, watch the most recent Wool Circle here.

Resources:

• Introduction to Textured Yarns & Corespinning | The Wool Circle, here
• Supercoils | The Wool Circle, here
• Corespinning How-To | The Wool Circle, here
• Corespinning Nuances: Plying & Supercoils | The Wool Circle, here
• Corespun & Coils | 51 Yarns SAL, here
• Corespun & Coils PDF | 51 Yarns SAL, here
• Corespun 2-ply | How I Spin, here
• Supercoils | How I Spin, here

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SKEINED!

Bramble Ridge Haunuii Fog in ‘Hastings Sunrise’ – Lendrum Saxony, 18:1 (very slow for me); broke into 3 piles & pre-drafted for air & loft; eventual 3-ply {Ravelry Project Page here}

HANDSPINNING

Bramble Ridge ? Targhee in ‘Seaside Sheep’ – Majacraft Suzie Pro, 27:1; broke into 3 piles & pre-drafted for air & loft; eventual 3-ply {Ravelry Project Page here}

SPIN TO WEAVE

SweetGeorgia Yarns BFL + Silk ‘Tofino Roadtrip’ {Ravelry Handspun Page here} in Point Twill, {draft shared in Ravelry Project Page here}

KNITTING

Metamorphic by Andrea Mowry – CVM fleece from CO; colourwork yarn: Nest Fibre Studios Merino & Silk (August 2016: Amanar); 3.25mm (US 3) {Ravelry Project Page here}

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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!

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Thank you so much for joining me today!

Until then, Happy Making!