The Blendlings are a series of small skeins of handspun I am making, in order to study color, learn combination drafting, and improve my spinning by studying and adjusting my practices in small amounts. For a fuller project description, click here. I asked N, “what color should my next sample be?” And she promptly replied, … More The Seventh Blendling: Love Me Blue
The Blendlings are a series of small skeins of handspun I am making, in order to study color, learn combination drafting, and improve my spinning by studying and adjusting my practices in small amounts. For a fuller project description, click here. Changing drafting style drastically for a forced worsted style was not natural and was … More The Sixth Blendling: Chastened Lavender
I’m taking a Blendlings break today, to reflect a little more about the crazy learning experience that has been the last two weeks. Spinning has been an on-again, off-again thing with me, and generally a solitary thing. I’ve always enjoyed it, but tended to get caught up larger projects that quickly became awful slogs. During my … More Connecting and Reconnecting
The Blendlings are a series of small skeins of handspun I am making, in order to study color, learn combination drafting, and improve my spinning by studying and adjusting my practices in small amounts. For a fuller project description, click here. As I wrote about before, experimenting with color and improving my spinning is really … More The Fifth Blendling: Christmas Black
The Blendlings are a series of small skeins of handspun I am making, in order to study color, learn combination drafting, and improve my spinning by studying and adjusting my practices in small amounts. For a fuller project description, click here. Colorwise, this was an expansion on Blending number two. I took all three teals … More The Fourth Blendling: Chill Teal
The Blendlings are a series of small skeins of handspun I am making, in order to study color, learn combination drafting, and improve my spinning by studying and adjusting my practices in small amounts. For a fuller project description, click here. For Blendling the Third, I wanted to go dark. This time I played with … More The Third Blendling: Skinny Purple
The Blendlings are a series of small skeins of handspun I am making, in order to study color, learn combination drafting, and improve my spinning by studying and adjusting my practices in small amounts. For a fuller project description, click here. As second children sometimes do, the second Blendling is doing everything it can to … More The Second Blendling: Up-tight Teal
The Blendlings are a series of small skeins of handspun I am making, in order to study color, learn combination drafting, and improve my spinning by studying and adjusting my practices in small amounts. For a fuller project description, click here. The firstborn Blending is a bit of a mess, but that’s to be expected. … More The First Blendling: Chubby Pink
Yesterday, I explained my inspiration; today, I explain my plan. A few years ago, a friend of mine was destashing, moving on to do more weaving than spinning, and gifted me all kinds of goodies. Many of them I passed on to those who will use them sooner, but for some reason, I held onto … More Blending Adventure: Intro Part 2
Good grief, I have been wordy this weekend! So much for short posts. The truth is, all this going on about colors and fuzzy things and inspiration has been leading up to this, a two-part intro for another series of short posts. This time, about some experiments I’ve been doing on color and spinning. When … More Blending Adventure: Intro Part 1
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