Dec 2, 2016
This podcast closes the 2016 year, with details on my Spinzilla 2016 spinning. Since one of the fibers I spun during that was dyed with natural dyes and the mordants tin and alum, I did a bit of research on those mordants. I end this podcast with that discussion. These are links to some of the things mentioned in the...
Sep 27, 2016
In the first part of this podcast I explain just what is this thing called ravellenics. Then I go into the details of what I did for the event.
First is spinning, and after that, the next knit with hand spun yarn project, the Oslo Shawl.
In the second part of the podcast, I talked about the seven items I took to my...
Aug 27, 2016
Final podcast about what I did during Tour de Fleece this year. I talk about some yarn spun, including two breed studies, Romeldale and Racka. I also dyed two different shetland fleeces, and an unknown breed ewe lamb fleece.
The Romeldale fiber was purchased at DyedintheWool,
The wash and dye product I used while...
Aug 16, 2016
This is the 2nd TdF16 podcasts, there will be one more.
I talk about washing alpaca fiber, dyeing shetland and lamb's wool fiber, and as my challenge day project, spinning banana fiber.
All of the links below are information I found on the internet about banana fiber.
Home processing (something so unavailable to most of...
Aug 1, 2016
Let the spinning begin. I have the Tour de France on my DVR and fiber ready, it could only be the tour de fleece!
I do much more than spinning, as usual. I have alpaca blanket washing, fiber dyeing, a challenge fiber and challenge processing planned all during these three weeks.
This is the first of three podcasts...