Tag: handspun yarn

  • 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 7. This is a super soft merino, viscose, & bamboo blend.

  • 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 3. Todays offering is corridale, lotus fibre, & viscose blend. Have you noticed that each day’s blend has an inscription in the inspiration country’s language? Today the inscription reads “tickets for christmas”.

  • Massive disappoint and frustration. When I was finishing this handspun I noticed that the purple colour was bleeding A LOT in the cold water washes. Bleeding yarn is bad as any wool you knit with it will get bled into the next time you wash it. So I attempted to fix the issue. Hot vinegar…

  • I managed to ply, wash, & thwack 10 skeins of yarn over just a few days! 🫣 I am thankful for our Australian summer heat which dried these skeins right out overnight.

  • I’ve been wanting to try out a spindolyn since I first saw them. It’s a very interesting little tool but not something that I would use regularly because of my preferred spinning style. It is however wonderful to spin up neppy wools and when you want a ridiculous amount of loft in your yarn!

  • Spinning some merino on my new Mingo&Asho glasspin. I taught myself to spin supported earlier this year. I found fleegle style spinning to be the most comfortable on my support spindles as its a kind of unsupported style which accommodates short or long draw. Do you like watching my spinning videos? Should I do more…

  • Hubert would like to present a basket of yarn cakes ready for plying & the latest singles of my dyed red panda spin.

  • Finished off my competition yarn I’m planning to enter into the 2024 Royal Easter Show. I tried really hard to spin as evenly and finely as possible, so I’m very happy with how this turned out.