Tag: handspinning
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On a recent podcast episode, I shared my evolving process around picking knitting patterns to use with my handspun yarns. My handspun yarns have become truly my favourite yarns to work with and I know this is echoed with others in the community because I hear it all the time – this makes my heart…
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For a while now, I’ve been struggling with the tension of whether purchasing yarn or not is ‘okay’ or ‘acceptable’ for me. Recently, I had a conversation with someone who was surprised that I don’t really have a commercial yarn stash to which I answered, “But wait ’til you see my handspun stash!” Whenever at…
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There is a tension between having the time for fibre preparation, spinning and getting to the finished cloth that has been weighing on my mind. How I determine where to spend my time is important in my output – what I spend my time on in my making determines what is finished and whether it…
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Dear Spinning Circle, Welcome All. There has been much buzz around Casa de la Wool n’ Spinning regarding the end of summer and beginning of school. In the midst of all the discussion, though, there has been making! Oh, has there been making. Pulling stashed singles out, I measured and wove a length of fabric…
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Dear Spinning Circle, Welcome All. Tour de Fleece is officially finished and I shared quite a bit of the spinning I accomplished over the past couple of shows. Today, I will finish sharing all those yarns and what each taught me. While on vacation, I finished the Oolong Tee by Amie Sher and after we…
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Dear Spinning Circle, Welcome All. Today’s episode is a continuation of last episode’s rehash of Tour de Fleece Hommes and de Fleece Femmes: Spinning up my bin of deep stashed braids and spindling both my Haunuii-Silk blend and Sweet Georgia’s Spinning Sock 6-Pack (circa 2016). We also spent a week between the Tour in Jasper,…
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Dear Spinning Circle, Welcome All. In today’s episode, we chat about that magical time of the year: Tour de Fleece! In an effort to get through some of my stash I’ve been collecting this winter, I made my Romney from Twin Oaks a priority (although my brake band broke so waiting for a new one…
