• “I wanna spin, Mamma.”

    Over the holiday, we had many quiet days. Partially, this was due to our crazy weather this winter but mostly because we were sick. James has been asking more and more about my spinning wheels. In…

  • Spin the Bin 2016

    This is the first year I have finished the Completely Twisted and Arbitrary Spin the Bin event. I haven’t wanted to participate before because I’ve never had projects hanging over me until the end of 2015!…

  • on a roll …

    I seem to be on a proverbial roll over here with singles yarn. I spun a third skein of singles after receiving an extra slow whorl for my Jumbo flyer, which I had ordered a few…

  • calling all the singles!

    I may never spin any yarn, ever again. Any yarn, that is, except singles. Oh, and maybe corespun. But not any other yarns ever again. Singles only from now on! I have to confide something to…

  • Dancing with Shetland.

    One of the recurring themes for me this year has been large quantity spins, usually referred to as ‘sweater spins’ in the handspinning community. I think this may be because people generally think of sweater quantities…

  • Episode 17 :: Socks & Singles

    The Wool n’ Spinning Podcast Episode 17 :: Socks & Singles February 2016 Thank you for watching! This week’s show features handspun knitting, some spins in progress and finished spins! I am a Craftsy affiliate. This…

  • more socks galore.

    The obsession with sock knitting continues this week with a follow-up from Monday’s post with you guessed it, more socks! For the Christmas break, our little family piled onto a plane and flew to Toronto to…