Category: Handspinning
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Unintentional Cabled Yarn
How many times can you spin one skein of yarn?
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Second Attempt at Spindle Spinning
Limited success is still progress.
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Learning Longdraw Spinning
Spinning woolen after years of worsted is… an adjustment.
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Handspinning on the Farm
Making the connection between history and everyday life, and learning some stuff in the process.
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Spinning Flax for the First Time
For my first experience spinning flax, I chose a fiber blend of flax with wool and silk.
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Spinning Sunbonnet
This colorway is just so pretty and happy that I couldn’t resist putting it right on the wheel.
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Éclat du Jour Sock Yarn
I really love the soft, summery colors in this fiber.
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Spinning Mon Coeur
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. This particular fiber…
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Some Me Time Shawl
A soothing, satisfying knitting project
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George Lazenby Handspun
I fell in love with this orange/pink color combination as soon as I saw it.