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Spinning with Turkish Spindles: Singles to Plying
My second Fiber Arts related course through FiberyGoodness. This self paced course can be started at any time, and has three sections: S...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Monday, January 8, 2018
Things have been a bit crazy! Here’s my post for day 7 of #wemakeyarn — Prep. Before I joined @fiberygoodness my prep consisted of buying pretty braids from indie dyers and spinning them as is. Over the past few years I’ve been building up my tool arsenal so that I can prep my own fiber. Last year I finished off my prep tools with the Majacraft Fusion Engine drum carder and Hackle. I’m so excited that I can now do pretty much any fiber prep I want to do. I’m looking forward to doing more of my own fiber prep this year!
Saturday, January 6, 2018
I had such a fantastic time at St. Distaff’s day but as seen here I didn’t get much spinning time in. I spent most of my time catching up with friends I hadn’t seen awhile as well as with some of my favorite vendors, taking lots of photos, and also being as it was put the “@akerworks West Coast Technical Support”. All in all it was a great day. 😄 #handspunstagram
Day 6 of #wemakeyarn “where I spin”. I spin mostly at home but love to attend guild twice a month and take my spindles where ever I go. One of my favorite places to spin is events like this one where I can spin and chat with all sorts of amazing fiber artists. Today at the 34th Annual St. Distaff’s Day in Monroe Wa I got a wee bit of spinning in on my Wee Peggy Ella(bottom right corner)but mostly ran around helping people which was a lot of fun in itself. . See my Facebook account for more photos of the event. .
Day 5 of #wemakeyarn Combed Top or Roving? I love to spin both. It wasn’t until I got my drum carder and my hackle that I fully realized just how different these preps are. For the most part prior to getting my drum carder I spun from commercial top dyed by indie dyers and very rarely from batts which I tore into strips. These two projects were ones I processed myself the top is roving I dizzed off my drum carder and the bottom i processed with my hackle and dizzed off to make combed top. Both projects were spun exactly the same but you can clearly see how the roving makes the yarn just a bit more fuzzy and airy while the combed top is very smooth and dense. They both make such wonderful yarns for their own purposes and I’m so thankful that I now have the tools and options to process my fiber which every way I choose. #handspunstagram #spinstagram #igspinners #spinnersofinstagram #handspun #handspunyarn #fiberfeature #wemakeyarn #fiberyfun365 #Majacraft #MajacraftHackle #MajacraftFusionEngine #MajacraftDrumCarder #FusionEngine #Hackle #Drumcarder #roving #combedtop
Yesterday and today I’ve been working on a project for my Mom. Last year she showed me this Facebook post that had this beautiful yarn in it but didn’t mention what the yarn was. She asked me if I could find it and make something for her so I looked and looked and found the yarn and colorway. It ended up the Yarn was one made by Malabrigo in the colorway Whales Road. I picked a different yarn but same colorway in order to make this special project. She knows I’m working on it but doesn’t know what it will be. Let’s just say I have to cast on 318 stitches and it’s an i-cord cast on. It’s going to take awhile just to do the cast on but I know it’s worth it. ❤️ #knittersofinstagram #igknitters #knittersofig #knitting #knitting_inspiration #instaknit #i_loveknitting #fiberyfun365
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