Some Stash Enhancement

November was a very fiber-filled month for me.  First, I ordered some fiber from Play at Life Fiber Arts on etsy.  Then, my mother-in-law sent me several bumps of fiber from a Fiber Optic truck show and a few skeins of natural colored fingering weight yarn I needed for a project.   Finally, I went to [...]

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Tour De Fleece Wrap Up

The challenge was to spin every day July 3-25.  I did fairly well, only missing a few days here and there. I spun three different yarns, and had a finished yardage of 1202 yards. l to r: Crown Mountain Farms superwash merino roving 3 ply sock weight, targhee/merino 3 ply chunky weight, Wild Hare Fiber [...]

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Roving, Roving, and a Rave

Roving- Crown Mountain Farms BFL- 4oz.  I dyed this myself using Paas dyes.  I slightly felted the roving when rinsing, but even so, it spun pretty nicely.  Sadly, you can’t make out how vibrant the orange center is in this picture.  To explain-  if cheetos and yarn made a baby that would be the color [...]

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Spinning wheel- got to go round

Picture heavy post ahead. I received my Kromski Sonata last Tuesday and I’ve quickly got to work getting to know it’s particularities.  I want to say that I love this wheel.  I was a little apprehensive about ordering a wheel that I had never spun on, that wasn’t double drive, and that was from a [...]

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