Wool n' Spinning

a shared passion for handspun yarn

Tag: spinning art yarn

  • textured yarn revisited.

    For the month of February, I am focusing on my learning I experienced throughout the Christmas holidays and early New Year around textured yarns. Here is the third installment :: After tackling all of the core spinning, I decided I wanted to look at thick and thin yarns or slub yarns. Back to my wheel…

  • textured yarn take 2.

    Continuing with my February theme surrounding learning how to spin Textured Yarns, I continued on with some more core spinning :: I’m kind of smitten with this core spinning business. I can’t stop. It’s so fast and fun and fast and easy and fun and … It’s addictive. As with all of Ilga’s batts, there…

  • textured yarn.

    Oh my goodness, dear friends. I never thought I’d actually enjoy spinning ‘textured’ yarns. But I am enjoying it immensely, so for the month of February, I’m going to focus on this major learning curve! I hope you’ll join me. I completely fell into the adage that textured yarns are just a waste a fibre because…