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Day 1 of the WoW christmas fibre advent. Today’s fibre is a flax mohair blend.
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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…
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Hubert would like to present a basket of yarn cakes ready for plying & the latest singles of my dyed red panda spin.
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This is how I prepare hand dyed fibre for spinning. It’s so satisfying floofing out the fibre & feeling it go from coarse to a literal cloud.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.