This is a ten minute podcast that I will release on the first of each month.  It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me and how to get your very own spinners' journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast.  I have decided that to avoid that in the YST podcast, I would put all this information here and release it once a month.  If you need the information, just listen in.  If you don't, you can just wait for the next podcast.

Happy Spinning!

Still spinning as part of the Ravellenic2014 event but I took a break and did a few different yarns. I also talk about putting a new drive band on your spinning wheel.

Music is from Music Alley and today's song Winter Empire is by Dan-O

A mention of a previous podcast in this one is referring to Episode 73, when I interviewed some fiber folk.

Photos can be found on my blog

The review of British rare breeds continues with one of the current rarest beeds, the Portland.  I focus some on worsted and woolen spinning with this sample.  

To understand better just how your spinning wheel works, try listening to episode 19 How does that wheel work.

Music is from Music Alley and today's song, Winter is by Sara Spade.

Photos for this fiber can be seen on my blog

The reviews of the British Rare breed sheep continues in this episode.

The fiber came from Hilltopcloud.uk.com

Music is from Musicalley  and todays song called Winter is by Jakki Jelene

Photos of the yarn can be found on my blog

This is the first of several episodes that will be reviewing British rare breed fleeces.  I am doing this project during the Ravellenics.  This episode covers the Norfolk Horn breed.

Music is from Music Alley and in by Jon Schmidt, a powerful paino piece called Winter Wind.

The website I mentioned for sheep breed info is sheep101.info

This is a 10 minute podcast that I will release on the first of every month.  It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me, and how to get your very own spinner' journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast.  I have decided that to avoid that in this podcast, I would put all this information here and release it once a month.  If you need the information, just listen in.  If you don't, you can just wait for the next podcast.

Happy spinning!

Adventures with alpaca continue in this podcast as I talk about combing and carding alpaca and then spinning it.

Music is from Music Alley with today's song by Tim Oneal, called January.

A new year brings a new fiber experiment, alpaca fiber washed in a washing machine.  This episode tells all about that, and my fiber new year's resolutions in a YST while I spin.

Music is from Music Alley and includes a bit from Atomsplit with the Resolutions six feet long song, and the closing song from J.E.L.L.i with a not so traditional version of Auld Lang Syne.  My theme song is provided by Jon Caspi.

Photos for this episode can be found on my blog.

This is a 10 minute podcast that I will release on the first of every month.  It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me and how to get your very own Spinners' Journal.  

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast.  I have decided that to avoid that in this podcast, I would put all this information here and release it once a month.  If you need the information, it is here.  If you don't you can just wait for the next podcast. 

Happy spinning!

Beta 10/09/07
Episode 1 Using Combs / Shetland 10/28/07
Episode 2 Spin In 11/13/07
Episode 3 Raising Angora Rabbits 12/01/07
Episode 4 Christmas Music 2 episodes 12/16/07
Episode 5 Spinning Angora 01/18/08
Episode 6 Spin In Border Leicester and BFL 02/02/08
Episode 7 Skirting a Shetland Fleece 02/16/08
Episode 8 Spin In Cheviot and Corriedale 03/02/08
Episode 9 Washing a Fleece 04/02/08
Episode 10 Spin In Finn and Perendale 04/22/08
Episode 11 Book Reviews: Your Handspinning/ Creative Spinning, Weaving & Plant                      Dyeing/ The Encyclopedia of Handspinning 05/09/08
Episode 12 Cotton Dyeing Part I Chemical Dyes 05/30/08
Episode 13 Cotton Dyeing Part II Natural Dyes 06/01/08
Episode 14 Spin In Cormo and Montadale  06/20/08
Episode 15 Cotton Spinning/Preparation Techniques 07/08/08
Episode 16 Spin In Romney and Targhee 07/31/08
Episode 17 Andean Plying, Picking a Fleece, Spinning Bulky Yarn 08/17/08
Episode 18 Spin In CVM and Maine Island Sheep 09/01/08
Episode 19 Wheels: How they work 09/16/08
Episode 20 Spin In Navajo Churro and Jacob 09/30/08
Episode 21 Felting a Fleece 10/27/08
Episode 22 Spin In Alpaca 10/31/08
Episode 23 Drop Spindles 12/20/08
Episode 24 Spinning and Dyeing Silk 01/25/09
Episode 25 Spin In Cashgora 01/31/09
Episode 26 Spinning Woolen vs Worsted 02/15/09
Episode 27 Spin In Tunis and Karakul 03/14/09
Epidose 28 Dyeing Wool / Discolored Fleeces 03/30/09
Episode 29 Spin In Wheels at the Woolery / Spaelsau and Icelandic 04/23/09
Episode 30 Plying 04/30/09
Episode 31 Bamboo and Tencel 05/16/09
Episode 32 Silk, Soy and Milk 06/01/09
Episode 33 Spin In Dog Hair / Spinning Designer Yarns and The Intentional Spinner  06/22/09
Episode 34 Carding and blending fibers 07/07/09
Episode 35 Spin In Helping Angora Bunnies Beat the Heat / Washing Alpaca Fiber 07/31/09
Episode 36 Spinning with a charkha 08/21/09
Episode 37 Spin In breed reviewed: Southdown, Polworth Setting up my wheel before spinning 09/13/09
Episode 38 Selecting a wool fleece part 1 10/10/09
Episode 39 Selecting non wool fiber to spin, storing fiber, original ghost story 10/24/09
Episode 40 Spinning for a specific type of yarn 11/21/09
Episode 41 Discussing grist 11/29/09
Episode 42 Changing the size of your yarn by adjusting tension 12/18/09
Episode 43 Spinner’s block, unlocking the creative juices 01/20/10
Episode 44 Fiber Fairs 04/05/10
Episode 45 Spin In Breeds Coopworth and Polypay review 04/18/10
Episode 46 Spinning Tools 05/08/10
Episode 47 Book Reviews Jenny Dean’s Natural Dyeing Books also American Native Plants 05/31/10
Episode 48 Planning a Dye Day 06/22/10
Episode 49 Carbonized bamboo, Tour de fleece projects History of the wheels I own 07/12/10
Episode 50 Dye Day 1 Dyeing with saran wrap 08/14/10
Episode 51 Dye Day 2 Dyeing specific colors, the tertiary colors 08/28/10
Episode 52 Dye Day 3 Natural Dyeing with walnut leaves 09/28/10
Episode 53 Front Porch spin in Creativity 10/23/13
Episode 54 Color Theory with Digitaldurga 11/10/10
Episode 55 Color Theory part 2 11/10/10
Episode 56 Blending the Tertiary colors 01/10/11
Episode 57 Blending Hackle 01/29/11
Episode 58 Different types of fiber combs 02/14/11
Episode 59 Washing and combing five different sheep breeds (lock washing in roaster pan) 02/28/11
Episode 60 Spinners’ single study, and Forsyth products review 04/07/11
Episode 61 A New Wheel Majacraft Aura 05/07/11
Episode 62 Rare breed review, Black Welsh Mountain and Clun Forest 05/17/11
Episode 63 Lock and Fold Spinning 06/02/11
Episode 64 Interview with Oogie McGuire Black Welsh Mountain Sheep breeder 07/22/11
Episode 65 A Podcast for knitters who want to become spinners 08/21/11
Episode 66 Learning curve for the Aura and beaded yarn 08/21/11
Episode 67 Spinning Woolen 10/05/11
Special Episode - Happy Fourth Year, YST! 10/15/11
Promo podcast for Spinners Journal, a how to use it podcast 11/05/11
Episode 68 Interviews with two scholar spinners 11/16/11
Episode 69 Four reviews (Leicester longwool, Lincoln wool, a spinning DVD and my trip to Stitches East)  01/07/12
Episode 70 Drum Carding Projects 02/21/12
Episode 71 Digital Sheep 03/31/12
Episode 72 Support Spindles 04/28/12
Episode 73 Chatting with the Fiber folks  05/26/12
Episode 74 Let the Games Begin (Tour de Fleece 2012) 07/02/12
Episode 75 The Wheel Keeps Spinning (TdF 2) 07/05/12
Episode 76 Listen to your Inner Spinner (TdF 3) 07/08/12
Episode 77 Is it Rest Day yet (TdF 4) 07/11/12
Episode 78 Two types of plying (TdF 5) 07/15/12
Episode 79 How the Fiber Talks to Me (TdF6) 07/18/12
Episode 80 Finished Yarn and Fractal Spinning (TdF7) 08/02/12
Episode 81 The Finish Line (TdF8) 08/07/12
Episode 82 Ravellenic review part 1 Breed review California Red and combing CVM two ways 08/16/12
Episode 83 Ravellenic review part 2 Breed review Ryeland and Salish 09/17/12
Episode 84 Positive Spin: YST on Stash naming 10/05/12
Episode 85 Five Year Anniversary podcast 10/31/12
Episode 86 Katahdan review and porch spin in 12/10/12
Episode 87 A Frest Start Wrap up of 2012 spinning 12/31/12
Episode 88 A Good Exchange Review of a past angora exchange 01/27/13
Episode 89 Thin thinner thinnest: Review of a froghair spinning exchange 02/04/13
Episode 90 Plying with commercial yarns 03/16/13
Episode 91 YST The more I teach the more I learn 04/26/13
Episode 92 Sometimes you make a yarn sometimes you don't: Chain plying 05/31/12
Episode 93 Preparing for TdF 2013 06/25/13
Episode 94 TdF13 Days one and two 07/02/13
Episode 95 TdF13 days three through five 07/06/13
Episode 96 TdF13 days six through nine 07/09/13
Episode 97 TdF13 Babies and bobbins:traveling and spinning 07/19/13
Episode 98 TdF13 Final report 07/30/13
Episode 99 Book review Hand Designs for Spinners and Knitters 09/09/13
Episode 100 Finishing Yarn 10/20/13