We'd all love as many of you listeners to come and join us on Ravelry for the annual Tour de Fleece June 29th through July 21st.  Team Yarnspinnerstales can be found at the Tour de Fleece group under the wild card team thread, or search the groups for Team Yarnspinnerstales and you should find it.  See you there!

Not all of my experiments with spinning work, and in the first part of this podcast I talk about my recent attempt and non success making a yarn.

The review is for the book The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs by Sarah Anderson. 

Music in today's podcast can be found on Music Alley  The interlude is from Spin Win It by Ex Norwegian.  The closing song Learning to Balance is by Daniel McCormick.

A follow up on the skein plied with commercial yarns.  I split each type and washed one half in order to compare and see if it made any significant difference in the yarns.

The second part of the podcast is a ramble about what I learned about myself as a spinner, as I prepared a fiber swap box for a swap partner.

Music is from Music Alley.  The theme song is by Jon Caspi and the First Gun.  An interlude around the word twist included music by Filip Marian and M C Robin.  A second interlude was Fantasy for Two by Michael Van Laar. 

Closing song is The Learning Curve by Paul Rose

YST now has a Twitter account, and I have started posting three minute audios through Audioboo as tweets.

The why and hows of plying your handspun singles with commercial yarns.

Music is from Music Alley and includes an interlude called Yarn by Cyrusfx and the closing song Mistreating Yarn Blues by Jacob Haller.

Photos of the yarns can be found here on my blog.

This podcast episode is another review of a spinners' exchange.  This time the challenge was to spin as fine a thread, fondly known as froghair spinning.  In the podcast I review what the spinners and myself learned with this challenge.

Music is from Music Alley and has the theme 'thread'.  The interlude is Hyperthread by Podcast Troubadour.  The closing song is Threads of Time by Jennifer Avalon. 

Today's podcast reviews a time when a dozen different spinners all decided to spin angora and share their samples with each other.

Music is from Music Alley and is very nicely named All Things Rabbit by Michael Bellar.

Goodbye 2012! It was a good year for spinning projects and other things in my life.  This short podcast talks about how I look at the new year.

Music is from Music Alley provided by various musicians who willing share their music with podcasters.  In return, I hope you give them your support, if you like their music.

Theme song:  Spin-A song for all children  by Jon Caspi

Interlude: A Fresh Start by The Havenots

First ending song:  It's a New Years Day by Denise Moser on the Cyber PR Label

Second closing song:  Happy New Year by Colie Brice

Best wishes for a wonderful new year to my listeners!

The first section of the podcast is a review of the Katahdan breed, also called the hair sheep.  Because these fleeces contain a large amount of hair like fiber, I also discuss the process known as dehairing.  Carolina Homespun is one of the mills that currently has a machine to do this process, and they show it being done in this Youtube video.

I mentioned previously talking about pygora, and that I would list the episode link, but right now I can not find that I actually did talk about this fiber....I may have to remedy that soon!

Music is from MusicAlley  The new theme song is Spin-A Song for Children of all ages by Jon Caspi and the First Guns.  Ordinary Day is sung by Great Big Sea  The closing song, to get us all in the holiday spirit is The Christmas Song, in a very special way by the Limey Birds

This podcast is the five year mark for the Yarnspinnerstales podcast.  In this episode I review some of it's history and also some of it's future.

To celebrate this anniversary, I have started using a brand new theme song found on Music Alley  by Jon Caspi and The First Gun  It is called Spin..a song for children...of all ages.

I also play Spinning by The Fast Sails.

YST has taken a big jump into 'the future is now' and now is available on the Stitcher app for your smart phone or Ipad

Today's episode talks about putting a positive spin on that fiber stash we all own.

The yarn in today's photo is some I spun from Natural Obsession.  I talk about the final process of plying this yarn in the episode also.

Two links for finding things I mention in the podcast.  My blog is here  and here is the Spinners Journal, the book I created to help you keep track of all the process of creating your hand spun yarn.

Music is from Music Alley  and features Whitney Kelly with Autumn Air and at the close Jack Jezzro Autumn Leaves.