From processing fleece to knitting with handspun, and everything in between.
It’s time for me to reveal the final results of a handspinning experiment that started right around three years ago, at the beginning of 2022. At that time, I started spinning for socks, intentionally and often. I played with colour, twist, and ply structure. Then, from June 2022 through February of 2023, I knit those … More Socks For Science: Results
The end of October this year was just too busy to think about adding another task. But here it is, the Ides of November, and I have a free morning to type to you. So here’s what I’ve been up to. Weather October was the month for watching the land transform from tundra to snowcover. … More Month-and-a-Half Roundup – October and November 2024
I went to bed last night and realized, I meant to do a round-up blog! I gotta admit, having multiple avenues to express oneself is awesome, but I’m still learning the rhythm of it. Not all of y’all have subscribed to the Wool Circle, and even though it’s easier and faster in some ways to … More September 2024 Round-up: Oh yeah
It’s a hazard of blogging that when the time comes to write about something, you might be in a mood that does not at all reflect what you have the task of writing about. For example, right now Casa de Osborn is kind of depressed because Jared is out of town and someone has been … More Puffin
So for the Spinner’s Book of Yarn Designs book study we’re doing over at Wool n’ Spinning, we’re offering two ways to spin along as we go through the book. You can, of course, go through the book and spin sample by sample. But not everyone is in a sampling place, so we created “Track … More Capstone Sweater: Fiber and Prep
This post was meant to publish on January 2nd! I don’t know why, but this is the second time I had thought I posted it and came back later to find it in my drafts folder. Oh well, better late than never! I’ve been writing through the last several turnings of the year, reflecting and … More Looking Ahead to 2024
Happy New Year everyone! It’s the first day of a new year, but I’m not quite done looking back yet. You’ve maybe heard of a “Make 9” – an Instagram grid of 9 projects that you plan to make. I didn’t make one of those last year. But looking backwards instead of forwards, I decided … More Made 9 2023
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. The next three yarns are all about dual-coated sheep. This is the last stop in the first section of the book, which is all about the general … More 5 of 51 Yarns: Icelandic Tog
I’m casting off! The longboat is packed with provisions, the crew are aboard, the shore is receding… OK enough nonsense, here’s my first yarn! The task for this wool is to go fine. Fine not meaning skinniest yarn, but yarn from the wool with the skinniest individual fibres. What better than to use the finest … More 1 of 51 Yarns: Fine Wool
Have you heard of this book? If you spin yarn, I’d bet an ounce of cashmere that you’ve heard of it. It was published last year by the woman who is right now at the exact centre of the whirling evolution of the yarn-spinning subculture: Jacey Boggs-Faulkner, editor of PLY Magazine. It’s the first book … More 51 Yarns, Here We Come!
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