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Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast


Welcome!  This is a periodic podcast all about my experiences making yarn through the process of spinning.  All areas of the process are discussed, and there will be something here for any spinner, novice or experienced.  There is a Ravelry group for podcast listeners, called Yarnspinnerstales Spin In. Please join us there.

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Episode list

Jan 5, 2020

When you go to my web page yarnspinnerstales.com there is a drop down box in the upper right of the page.  In that, you can find archives.  You will need to know the date of the podcast you want to find, then in those archives, go to that year and month.  In that area you will find the specific podcast you are looking for.  Use this list below, to know the podcast title, general information and the date.

Epi # Topic Date

1 Using Combs/Shetland 10/28/07
2 Spin In General Chatter 11/13/07
3 Raising Angora Rabbits 12/01/07
4 Christmas music only 12/16/07
5 Spinning Angora 01/18/08
6 Border Leicester and BFL 02/02/08
7 Skirting a Shetland Fleece 02/16/08
8 Cheviot and Corriedale 03/02/08
9 Washing a fleece 04/02/08
10 Finn and Perendale 04/22/08
11 Book reviews 05/09/08
12 Cotton Dyeing part 1 Chemical 05/30/08
13 Cotton dyeing part 2 Natural 06/01/08
14 Cormo and Montadale 06/20/08
15 Cotton prep and spinning 07/08/08
16 Romney and Targhee 07/31/08
17 Andean Ply, Fleece Picking 08/17/08
Spinning Bulky yarn
18 CVM and Maine Island Sheep 09/01/08
19 Wheels and how they work 09/16/08
20 Navajo Churro and Jacob 09/30/08
21 Felting a fleece, faking pelts 10/27/08
22 Alpaca 10/31/08
23 Drop Spindles 12/20/08
24 Spinning and Dyeing Silk 01/25/09
25 Cashgora 01/31/09
26 Woolen vs Worsted spinning 02/15/09
27 Tunis and Karakul 03/14/09
28 Dyeing wool Discolored fleece 03/30/09
29 Spaelsau and Icelandic 04/23/09
30 Plying 04/30/09
31 Bamboo and tencel 05/16/09
32 Silk, Soy and Milk fibers 06/01/09
33 Dog hair,Spinning DesignerYarn 06/22/09
Review of Intentional Spinner
34 Carding and Blending fibers 07/07/09
35 Angora rabbits and the heat 07/31/09
Washing alpaca fiber
36 Spinning with a Charkha 08/21/09
37 Southdown,Polworth 09/13/09
Setting up a wheel to spin
38 Selecting a wool fleece 10/10/09
39 Selecting non wool fiber,storing fiber
An original ghost story 10/24/09
40 Spinning for a specific yarn 11/21/09
41 Discussing grist 11/29/09
42 Changing yarn size by adjusting 12/18/09
tension
43 Spinners block unlocking creative 01/20/10
juices
44 Fiber Fairs 04/05/10
45 Coopworth and Polypay 04/18/10
46 Spinning tools 05/08/10
47 Natural Dyeing book reviews 05/31/10
48 Planning a dye day 06/22/10
49 Carbonized bamboo TdF 07/12/10
history of wheels I own
50 Saran Wrap dyeing 08/14/10
51 Dyeing for specific colors 08/28/10
tertiary color study
52 Natural dyeing with walnut leaves 09/28/10
53 Front porch spinning Creativity 10/23/10
54 Color Theory with digitaldurga 11/10/10
55 Color Theory part 2 11/10/10
56 Blending the Tertiary colors 01/10/11
57 Blending Hackle 01/29/11
58 Types of Fiber combs 02/14/11
59 Washing and combing 5 breeds 02/28/11
60 Spinners' single study 04/07/11
Forsyth product review
61 A new Wheel Majacraft Aura 05/07011
62 Black Welsh Mountain Clun Forest 05/17/11
63 Lock and fold spinning 06/02/11
64 Oogie McGuire interview BWM breed 07/22/11
65 A podcast for knitters who want to 08/20/11
become spinners
66 Learning the Aura and beaded yarn 08/21/11
67 Spinning Woolen 10/05/11
Special Episode Happy fourth Year YST 10/15/11
Promo podcast for The Spinners Journal 11/05/11
68 Interviews with two scholar spinners 11/16/11
69 Leicester longwool, lincoln longwool 01/07/12
spinning DVD review and Stitches East
70 Drum Carding projects 02/21/12
71 Digital Sheep 03/31/12
72 Support Spindles 04/28/12
73 Chatting with Fiber folks 05/26/12
74 Let the Spinning Begin 07/02/12
Tour de fleece 2012
75 The Wheel Keeps Spinning TdF12 07/05/12
76 Listen to your inner spinner TdF12 07/08/12
77 Is it rest day yet? TdF12 07/11/12
78 Two types of plying TdF12 07/15/12
79 How the fiber speaks to me TdF12 07/18/12
80 Fractal spinning and finished yarn 08/02/12
81 The finish line TdF12 08/07/12
82 California Red and combing CVM 08/16/12
83 Ryeland and Salish 09/17/12
84 Positive Spin YST on Stash naming 10/05/12
85 Five year anniversary podcast 10/31/12
86 Katahdan review and porch spin in 12/10/12
87 A Fresh Start Review of 2012 spinning 12/31/12
88 Exchanges, an angora spinning 01/27/13
exchange
89 Thin, thinner, thinnest, a froghair 02/04/13
spinning exchange
90 Plying with commercial yarns 03/16/13
91 The more I teach, the more I learn 04/26/13
92 Chain plying (navajo plying) 05/31/12
93 Preparing for TdF 2013 06/25/13
94 TdF13 day 1 and 2 07/02/13
95 TdF13 days 3 thru 5 07/06/13
96 TdF13 days 6 thru 9 07/09/13
97 TdF13 traveling with baby 07/19/13
98 TdF13 final report 07/30/13
99 Book Review Hand Designs for 09/09/13
Spinners and Knitters
100 Finishing yarn 10/20/13
101 Machine Washing alpaca 01/11/14
102 Spinning alpaca 01/30/14
103 Norfolk Horn 02/11/14
104 White faced Woodland 02/14/14
105 Portland fiber 02/18/14
106 Ravellenic spinning 02/22/14
107 Manx Loaghton and Hill Radnor 03/16/14
108 Dyeing Alpaca 04/24/14
109 Greencastle Fiber event 06/02/14
110 Ky Sheep and Wool Festival 06/25/14
111 Preparing for TdF14 07/09/14
112 TdF14 Team Painted Tiger 07/16/14
113 TdF14 Team Majacraft 07/21/14
114 TdF14 Team Farm Fiber Marketplace 07/26/14
115 TdF14 Team Support Spindlers 07/31/14
116 TdF14 Final recap 08/10/14
117 A Wool Gathering Yellow Springs Ohio 10/04/14
118 Spinailla 2014 11/07/14
119 Fortutous fleeces 11/27/14
Interview with Digitaldurga
120 Roc Day 2015 01/07/15
121 Wool Wash review interview with 02/03/15
Natalie Redding
122 Review of Norman Kennedy's DVD 03/26/15
123 Alpaca in the dyepots 05/16/15
124 Spin In General Chatter 06/30/15
125 TdF15 part 1 07/15/15
126 TdF15 part 2 07/23/15
127 TdF15 final update 08/03/15
128 Washing handspun yarn 09/13/15
129 Spinzilla 2015 Ashford spinning quill 10/22/15
130 This, that and daydreams spin in chat 11/26/15
131 New Year, New spinning 01/07/16
132 A Hand spun hat and a mystery yarn 02/17/16
133 Review of Craftsy, and more knitting 03/30/16
with hand spun yarn
134 Fiber purchases, state fair prep and 06/15/16
Tdf spinning plans
135 Pre TdF and a swap 07/03/16
136 TdF16 podcast 1 08/01/16
137 TdF16 podcast 2 08/15/16
138 TdF16 podcast 3 08/27/16
139 Ravellenics 2016 and State Fair 09/27/16
140 Spinzilla and Natural Dye mordants 12/02/16
141 Spinning New Year's resolutions 02/02/17
Book review Yarn.i.tec.ture
A Spinning Sabatical 03/10/17
142 Life Changes,Why Worry? 06/16/17
A conversation with my daughter
143 Counting Treadles for even plying 07/03/17
144 Dyeing with Lichens part 1 07/14/17
145 Dyeing with Lichens part 2 08/19/17
146 Spindle Crane review 10/01/17
147 Spinzilla 2017 Recap 11/02/17
148 Dyeing with Lichens part 3 11/21/17
149 Ten Years of Podcasting 01/25/18
150 Ravellenics 2018 03/28/18
151 Episode 151 Fiber Fairs 04/20/18
152 Episode 152 July 2018 Spin in 07/04/18
153 TdF 2018 part 1 08/17/18
154 TdF 2018 part 2 09/03/18
155 Stitches Midwest 2018 10/09/18
156 Drafting 01/08/19
157 The Pegosa Project Alpaca 03/18/19
158 Post Op Spinning 05/15/19
Book Review Creative Spinning Allison Dayker
159 Finally a Fiber Fair 06/17/19
160 Book review Spindle Spinning 07/02/19
161 TdF2019 part 1 07/28/19
162 TdF2019 part 2 08/24/19
163 Review of a spinning video 09/18/19
found on Kanopy through library
164 Oct 2019 part 1 10/28/19
165 Oct 2019 part 2 Herding the Stash 11/02/19
166 Book Review Anne Field 11/18/19
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