While working on a project with my own handspun yarn, I made a list of my best tips for using handspun yarn in a project and getting great results.Read More
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I Joined Spin Together 2019! (It turned me into a monster)
For years Spinzilla was the monster of the spinning competitions. See what I did there? Run by the National Needle Arts Association, TNNA, Spinzilla was a world wide spinning competition where spinners joined teams, locked themselves, and their spinning wheels in their homes, and tried to spin the most yardage humanly possible in the spanRead More
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How to Spin Alpaca – From Farm to Yarn!
In this video filled post, I show you how I process alpaca by hand beginning with washing, then carding, spinning, followed by plying, I finish with instructions to complete a detailed yarn tag. This shows the entire process from raw fiber to spun yarn!Read More
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I Painted My Spinning Wheel! (And I Don’t Hate It.)
My first spinning wheel was a vintage Ashford Traditional. I bought it from someone online so I didn’t see it in person first. It wouldn’t have mattered, it spun and the price was right. However, I wasn’t incredibly happy with the wood stain color of it. For years I debated painting my spinning wheel. IRead More
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Is Over Spun Yarn Useful?
This question has me thinking. Is Over Spun Yarn useful? I am going to turn it’s flaws on their heads and perform some experiments to figure out the answer. So before you run that twisted skein back through the wheel, hang weights on it, or (gasp) chuck it to the bottom of your yarn binRead More