From processing fleece to knitting with handspun, and everything in between.
Since I went to the trouble of making these last four samples for the 51 Yarns SAL with the same singles from the same fiver, I thought I’d take a moment to compare how they turned out. Grist: Surprising graph, right? Not surprising that I made one, cuz I’m a big nerd, but surprising what’s … More Pause Button: Simple Structures
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. (Yes, I skipped #21! I’ll come back to that one in a while.) Now the structures start to deviate from the norm. You might wonder why we … More 22 of 51 Yarns: Cabled
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. If the 2-ply and 3-ply are the most normal of yarns, 5-ply is one of the most unusual. I can honestly say I’ve never spun one before. … More 20 of 51 Yarns: 5-Ply
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. It’s hard to know what to say in this post. The 3-ply yarn is, if possible, even more standard and vanilla than the 2-ply. Another handspinner might … More 19 of 51 Yarns: 3 Ply
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. OK, It’s catch up time! Here we go. In this study, it’s fun sometimes to group several samples together and spin with the same fiber for direct … More 18 of 51 Yarns: 2-ply
Last December I wrote about my accomplishments for the year gone by, and my hopes for 2019. It was very interesting to read through and see what I thought would happen, and compare it to the reality. I. Intentions That Came True… Sort Of A. The Year of the Sweater I declared 2019 to be … More How 2019 Went
I’d gotten so into the habit of looking forward to writing this post that it didn’t even occur to me yesterday to write it. One guess as to why: That accounts for yesterday’s distraction, but this counts for the whole month’s distraction: Homemaking Our sea can arrived about mid-month. We have been unloading it in … More October Check-In: Moving In Continues
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. If I felt tentative and insecure about the first singles I spun for this study (below at left), I felt much more comfortable with the energized singles … More 17 of 51 Yarns: Energized Singles
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. Oh my, was this yarn ever fun. (As an aside, have you noticed kids using the word “ever” to mean “very”? Or is that just up here?) … More 16 of 51 Yarns: Thick and Thin Singles
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. Ok, here I am, catching up! As I mentioned at the end of last month, I did manage to spin the September assignment in our spin-along. However, … More 15 of 51 Yarns: Soft Singles
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