Tag: spindles

  • 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 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’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!

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

  • Plying, washing, & skeining all this has taken weeks! But honestly, these are some of the prettiest yarns I’ve made so far. I still have to ball/re-skein to measure lengths yet though, but that can wait for a bit.

  • I’m doing TDF (Tour de Fleece) this year. My goals are tiny; simply finishing off singles for project spins with anything else, being that plying/additional spins, being an added bonus. Whilst holidaying in the hinterland last week, I completed one of my goals of finishing off the last single for my Easter Show competition yarn,…

  • All but 3 of my regular working spindles are full, & I don’t have any more storage space to keep going. So every one now has to be pulled off & processed into skeins.

  • I bought this white scandinavian mountain sheep wool to practice on my gossamer spindle. It’s quite scratchy because of the short guard hairs but also fluffy. I didn’t know how I wanted to ply this as I don’t have a project in mind for it, until I opened my next spin fibre; some black welsh…