Tag: making yarn

  • 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 5. Kevin is delighted to assist with spinning up this candy floss finnish & mulberry silk blend.

  • 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”.

  • 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.

  • 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 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 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…