Tag: fibre

  • WoW fibre advent Day 8. This offering is a beautiful gotland, bamboo, & mulberry silk blend. Look at that gorgeous shimmery colour!

  • WoW fibre advent Day 6. This is a New Zealand corridale & sari silk blend emulating the colours of the in-bloom Pohutukawa tree (NZ christmas tree).

  • WoW fibre advent Day 4. Today is a sparkly trash pigeon icelandic & stellina blend.

  • WoW Christmas fibre advent Day 2. Today it’s a beautiful seaglass blend of merino & tussah silk.

  • Day 1 of the WoW christmas fibre advent. Today’s fibre is a flax mohair blend.

  • I patterned & made up a little cover to protect my new wool hand carders. It came out so well that I’m considering making a few to sell.

  • I did something crazy & bought an advent calendar this year … a wool/fibre advent calendar! I’m going to try do a post every day of December this year as I open up each packet of this World Of Wool advent calendar box. This is gonna be fun!

  • I recently bought some beautiful handcarders and I spent a few relaxing hours teaching myself how to card. It’s surprisingly easy & I carded up some spare fibre; white cormo, yak, & grey polwarth.

  • This is how I prepare hand dyed fibre for spinning. It’s so satisfying floofing out the fibre & feeling it go from coarse to a literal cloud.

  • 3 days of work and everything has been pulled off the spindles & prepped for plying. The yellow is still a singles ball as that’s my Easter Show competition spin waiting for the red alpaca to finish resting.