From processing fleece to knitting with handspun, and everything in between.
I know that most of my readership are not spinners; many are not even knitters, and are just friends and family who like to know what I’m up to. These recent posts have probably been hard for you to follow, non-yarnies, and it’s been pointed out to me that you might want to follow what I’m … More A Non-Yarnie’s Visual Spinning Glossary
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 liked the last Blendling so well that I decided to do something similar, … More The Tenth Blendling: Paunnait
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. #9’s color selection came from Instagram, of all places. I was mostly through the … More The Ninth Blendling: Tomato Bisque
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 wouldn’t want to give you the idea, from two samples ago, that I … More The Eighth Blendling: Mix-It-Up Maroon
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
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