Tag: making yarn

  • Kevin has decided she’s caretaker for the full spindle sticks. These are the spun up rolags I hand made. Now to plying them!

  • I did it! I just put in all my entries for the 2024 Royal Easter Show. I’m entering all but one category under the Spinning Arts & Craft schedule; the dark purple in the handspun category, other yarns are going up against wheel spinners in respective laceweight & regular weight categories, the garment in the…

  • WoW fibre advent Day 24. This is a cracker of a colourful (see what I did there) blend of merino, cashmere, & sari silk. Thanks to every spinner who was doing the WoW or another fibre advent with me this month, & to everyone who followed along with my efforts. Merry Christmas 🎄

  • WoW fibre advent Day 23. A misleadingly named blend of merino, corridale, & tussah silk. Honestly, I was rather unimpressed by with the vile colour choices.

  • WoW fibre advent Day 22. Candle flame yellow shetland, sari silk, & BFL blend.

  • WoW fibre advent Day 21. This is a superfine merino & suri alpaca blend.

  • Decided to try colour control using some wooly witch rolags. These were the popsicle colourway and not all the rolag colours matched up across the rolags, so I tried to separate out so light & dark colours would end up together. This is a 3ply and I think considering it’s my first go at colour…

  • WoW fibre advent Day 20. GREEN!! This is a corridale & stellina blend.

  • WoW fibre advent Day 19. This is a shimmery merino & nylon blend.

  • WoW fibre advent Day 18. Today’s blend is a beautiful fawn eider & wool.