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How many times can you spin one skein of yarn?

Limited success is still progress.

Spinning woolen after years of worsted is… an adjustment.

Connecting with the handspinners who came before me.

Making the connection between history and everyday life, and learning some stuff in the process.

Original pub: 2022/02/14 Targhee is an American breed of sheep, developed at the Experimental Sheep Station in Dubois, Idaho in the early 1900s. They wanted a versatile sheep that would be good for wool or lamb meat, so they chose foundation stock of Rambouillet (Spanish/French/German), Corriedale from New Zealand, and the British longwool Lincoln breed.…

Orig pub: 2022/03/11 I’ve been knitting more socks this year and really love making them with handspun. Normally I’d spin a sturdy, twisty 3-ply for socks, but since I only had a little over 5 oz of fiber, I spun this as a 2-ply so I’d have enough yarn. I decided to spin it on…

For my first experience spinning flax, I chose a fiber blend of flax with wool and silk

This travel spinning wheel is the Athena Capricorn. It’s made of solid walnut and maple, but weighs just ten pounds.

It’s not often that fiber goes straight from the package onto my spinning wheel, but this colorway is just so pretty and happy that I couldn’t resist.