Wool n' Spinning

a shared passion for handspun yarn

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This blog is dedicated to my Aunt Yvonne. My favourite crafting is my knitting and here I share my ideas, projects, pitfalls and successes. Vancouver, Canada

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  • Christmas Activities

    Christmas Activities

    There has been a serious lack of crafting around here this month! I ran out of my making mojo at the end of November, realising that for the first time in a long time, I needed a really good break from making. I think this came on the heels of some other life changes that…

  • Fibre Friday

    Fibre Friday

    Each week, we all work on various fibre-related things that we are excited to share with one another. Some share on  Instagram (use #fiberfriday – note the American spelling to keep things simple on Instagram!) but some of us still blog about our fibre-y pursuits. If you’d like to join in, blog and post a…

  • pom-pom magic.

    pom-pom magic.

    Over the past year or so, I’ve been steadily trying to work down my yarn stash. In some ways, it is not going well. I have accumulated yarn at every fibre event through out the past year and a half. But in other ways, it is going well because I keep banging out small projects…

  • Christmas Pumpkin.

    Christmas Pumpkin.

    This is going to be a slightly picture-heavy post but since I don’t post finished objects that are knit for the kids very often, I thought maybe you wouldn’t mind? I didn’t think so. I was struck with an urge to knit the kids some Christmas sweaters this year, which I never do. I had…

  • Episode 7 :: Finishing all the skeins & a Roadbug

    The Wool n’ Spinning Podcast July 2015 :: Finishing all the skeins & a Roadbug It’s fixed! Here is the re-recorded show and while slightly different, my Roadbug wheel came so I get to unpack it with you all :) For show notes, see below. If I haven’t linked to something, please leave a comment…

  • Doing what we love.

    Doing what we love.

    First, I wanted to let you know April’s show has been RE-RECORDED and uploaded. I apologize for the audio problems in the original show but thank you for your support, for watching and to those who let me know! You can find the new show here.  I thought I would share with you what our family does…