#handspinning — Public Fediverse posts
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new wheel is officially cat approved
#fibrearts #handspinning #caturday
(I was done peddling don't worry!)
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new wheel is officially cat approved
#fibrearts #handspinning #caturday
(I was done peddling don't worry!)
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new wheel is officially cat approved
#fibrearts #handspinning #caturday
(I was done peddling don't worry!)
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new wheel is officially cat approved
#fibrearts #handspinning #caturday
(I was done peddling don't worry!)
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new wheel is officially cat approved
#fibrearts #handspinning #caturday
(I was done peddling don't worry!)
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I've been waiting months for my first wheel (I pre-ordered it) and my spinning group got me a card to celebrate its delivery 😭❤️
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I've been waiting months for my first wheel (I pre-ordered it) and my spinning group got me a card to celebrate its delivery 😭❤️
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I've been waiting months for my first wheel (I pre-ordered it) and my spinning group got me a card to celebrate its delivery 😭❤️
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I've been waiting months for my first wheel (I pre-ordered it) and my spinning group got me a card to celebrate its delivery 😭❤️
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I've been waiting months for my first wheel (I pre-ordered it) and my spinning group got me a card to celebrate its delivery 😭❤️
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My first "finished" project for #FinishOrFrogAlong ! I gave all my heritage breed sampler spins from #TourDeFleece2026 a wash and a good thwacking, then hung them out to dry. I'm still impressed by the variability in wool fibers AND how they turned out regardless.
They are "wet finished" but I still need to re-measure yardage and wind them into cakes so I can knit swatches.
Details on each in following posts: 🧵
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Freya's little helper was very polite while I was spinning today. she is proud to report that this yarn passes the sniff test.
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alpaca & merino crepe, a little under spun for fluffiness. this is the first half, there's another big bobbin to ply but my ankles are done for the day.
I'm running low on this laceweight merino so there's a subtle self-striping effect. this skein is ivory/light grey, the next skein is going to be light grey/dark grey and maybe some purple if I run out of grey
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made a big pile of batts for #handspinning - think I'll make more before I start spinning because these bonbons always go fast.
planning a cozy sweatshirt type project. or a woven blanket. I have a lot of this wool to use up.
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I've finally finished plying the results of my #TourDeFleece2026 spinning of my heritage breed samplers! They still need to be finished (washed, thwacked, etc.)
All but the outer two hanks are from 50g of fiber. The Lonk on the left is ~30g, spun after I gave up on my Nano, and the Alpaca on the right was 30g from the start. In between, quite a bit of variation in texture, softness, and diameter.
The Jacob "natural stripe" is sadly more muddy than I'd hoped! The singles had some distinct stripey character in places, but that tended to get muddled when twined with not-so-distinct sections. Oh well! It's still a nice heather effect.
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Oh hey! I finally have all my Tibetan Mastiff and/or merino swatches together for comparison!
Left to right: 3x prep/spin variants of 100% fur, 1x 25% wool, 2x 33% wool, 1x 50% wool. All are 3-ply. The fabric is somewhat dense for the blends in the middle: I probably should have gone up in needle size for the yarn, but I was keeping that factor the same between the swatches.
While the 75% fur (3:1 blend) seemed nice and fuzzy as yarn, similar to the 100% fur, it came out distinctly less fuzzy in the swatch. I now wonder what only 10% wool would be like, but I don't want to keep running tests until I run out of fiber to actually work with!
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And plied.
What a difference it makes, when you don't try to spin as finely as possible.
Pre finishing the yarn is not super soft to the touch, but the fiber mix (40% Devon Closewool / 40% Romney / 20% Exmoor Blueface) wasn't suggesting it would be too soft anyway - all of those breeds are in the mid 30ies micron count.
I'll spin the other braid and finish them together.
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First bobbin filled. The fiber consists of two layers - one is silk or a silk-merino blend, the other just merino. This is the first layer, spun very finely. I'll spin the second layer onto another bobbin and then ply both together.
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This year I didn’t manage to spin every day of the Tour de Fleece, due to other obligations. But I managed to spin everything in the spinbox from @Spinspul, so now I’ve got 420 grams of Shetland/tussah silk yarn. And besides that also 300 grams of Veluws heideschaap. So all in all it’s been pretty good. #TourDeFleece2026 #HandSpinning #SpinningWheel
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#FlashbackThursday Have you every wondered how all those parts of a spinning wheel are actually called? I've got you covered! 😃
https://www.lavisch.com/site/the-anatomy-of-a-spinning-wheel/#LaVischDesigns #SpinningWheel #Fiberarts #SpinningYarn #WeMakeYarn #HandSpinning
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I don't think I've seen this in a long, long time, so maybe it should be brought out again.
A spinning wheel made from glass
@fiberarts @handspinning #fiberarts #handspinning #spinningwheel #glassart
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Progress - one bobbin mostly filled. The first batt was enough to fill one bobbin and the second one to about 2/3.
So this means I'm over the halfway point with the spinning on this yarn.
And there's now also a handspinning fedigroup
@handspinning @fiberarts
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This is the beginning of the second of three batts from the same colorway. The turquoise is way greener than in this, but present light doesn't allow for better pictures.
Anyway. I'm spinning it with a lowish twist and aim for a bit to even single that will finally turn into a rustic 2ply. The plan is to weave with the finished yarn
@fiberarts #spinning #fiberarts #handspinning #spinningwheel
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Tour de Fleece day 21, 22 and 23. Finished the light green, plyed 100 gram of Veluws Heideschaap and almost finished 15 gram of apple green. The TdF has ended but I have another 6 colours to go. And after that every little turtle has to be plyed. So I guess I have to continue spinning during the TdF Femme 😀 #TourDeFleece2025 #HandSpinning #Spinning #SpindleSpinning #handspun #SpinningWheel
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*three hours later*
i have a bowl of washed and picked wool that is now soaking in my sink with a tiny splash of vinegar to be separated out and dyed in the morning!
i also found my dyes and dug out my dyepot and spoon. Pro Tip: don't mix kitchen pots with dyepots if you use professional non-foodsafe dyes. also wear gloves and a respirator if you are working with the powdered stuff. that stuff gets *everywhere* omg.
i'll post pics as soon as i figure out the colors i want. i'm thinking... seafoam, copper, coral, lavender and maybe a dark gold? maybe a pale chestnut? i use CMYK ratios to mix my dyes and it's been a while. so it'll be anyone's guess what i end up with. 😆
#Dyeing #FiberArts #HandDyeing #HandSpinning #SlowLife #SlowCrafting #CMYK