Jan 8, 2019
Happy New Year! It is always full of thoughts and plans for the spinning projects ahead. In today's podcast I talk about maintaining watch on the drafting zone to make your yarn more intentional. Watching the drafting zone will help you break out of making the same WPI yarn all the time to making art yarns that...
Oct 9, 2018
Links to vendors mentioned in the podcast:
Stitches events in general Atlanta Ga event May 30-June 2 2019 Stitches United is on that page too.
Youghiogheny Yarns Keri Fosbrink dyer
Fiberlady bamboo fiber
Buffalo Wool Co Buffalo wool yarn and fiber
Shirsty Cat Designs Merino silk fiber
Sep 4, 2018
In this discussion of what I did during the 2018 Tour de Fleece, I talk about the wool breed Zwartbles, spinning buffalo fiber on a drop spindle and finally a very rare breed of wool, Dor Galen.
The buffalo fiber was included in the Clouds of Luxury from the Etsy store Sericin
The Dor Galen fiber was purchased at a...
Aug 18, 2018
My favorite time of the spinning year, the Tour de Fleece event. As promised, here is the review of what I spun this year.
This is part one of the two part podcast.
A few links. To see photos of all of the lovely fibers and yarns I talked about, go to my group in Ravelry, yarnspinners spin in and look at the TdF2018...
Jul 5, 2018
When I find that a podcast has no specific topic, but many different stories, I call them a spin-in. I also likened this to writing you a letter, dear listener! But mostly it feels like when we gather together with our spinning wheels and spin and talk. One never really knows what the conversations will be.
I catch...