Wool n' Spinning

a shared passion for handspun yarn

Tag: SweetGeorgia Yarns

  • Episode 139 Live: Falling Leaves *finished* Handspun & Planning

    Thank you for being here today, especially those who were able to make it to the Live Stream. I appreciate your time spent here in this place and me. I hope you feel most welcome because you are welcome here. In today’s show, we chat about our community’s contribution to our ongoing Breed & Colour…

  • Episode 135 Live: UNBOXING! (& setting up an Ashford eSpinner 3)

    Thank you for being here today, especially those who were able to make it to the Live Stream. I appreciate your time spent here in this place and me. I hope you feel most welcome because you are welcome here. In today’s show, we chat about projects from the Ravelry group’s 51 Yarns SAL and…

  • Epic Cloth, Pt 1 (dream): Handwoven Scout Tee

    Over the past couple of years, my goals for making have changed and evolved. The intersection between creativity and practicality has increasingly affected how I view my making. But if I’m being honest with myself, the balance between ‘making just to make’ and pushing myself to learn, grow and labour has difficult to strike. A…

  • handspun ‘Eden’ stole

    There are more than a few things that I love about Ravelry but one of the most important features is the ability to keep a working journal of my projects and yarns. The platform gives me the opportunity to keep my notes as detailed or simple as I would like from project-to-project. A few months…

  • Episode 80 LIVE: This is what happens when I don’t podcast for a while …

    Today, we chatted about new beginnings and changes in our home life. We discovered how I build my spinner’s control cards, my thought process and some examples, as a result of a question asked. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to approach me in the Ravelry group or here! Next, we explored many…

  • Early Gifts.

    Back at the beginning of November, I spun up the SweetGeorgia Yarns’ Fibre Club. It was a beautiful 100% Wensleydale that I spun as a soft singles. In under an hour, I had a beautiful skein of yarn and I was so excited to knit with it! After washing and drying, the club fibre needed…

  • Recap :: Spinzilla 2016

    This year pasted in a blur of spinning, encouraging others to “just keep spinning” and more spinning. Spinzilla is a whorl wind week for many handspinners all over the world and Instagram kind of ‘blows up’ during this week of crazy spinning. I had the pleasure of being Team Captain for Team SweetGeorgia this year…