Tag: spinning world

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

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

  • 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.

  • Finally finished the impromptu b&w yarn project. This started out as just learning support spindling with random fibre & turned into a mission for pretty yarns. Skeins are 4ply worsted weight stricken white scandi, black welsh, & ‘Licorice’ (striken white scandi/black welsh) wool. These yarns are destined to become a knit triangle shawl.

  • Conclusion of my Tour de Fleece 2023 journey. Over the 3 week period (mens race) I spun & plied a skein each of black welsh & white scandi. I finished the last single of my competition yarn & plied that. I completely finished all singles for 2 skeins of blue merino/alpaca. I filled my tahkli…

  • Completed measuring and skeining all the spins from the last few months. There are hundreds of yards/meters of yarn here. My absolute favourite is merino/alpaca/camel/silk blend as it’s like touching a 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.

  • 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.