at home with Lara's wheels, spindles, looms & dye pots
At the end of last September, I washed a beautiful Shetland ewe fleece. It is from Willow Farm, and was my first (run-don’t-walk) purchase at the 2018 Woodstock Fleece Festival. Willow Farm is a great spinner’s flock. After the joys of working with Shepherdess Jocelyn’s Romney ram fleece 10 years ago, I also loved an […]
Read MoreIn my last post I wrote about spinning a 2nd Shetland wool top from another dyer. The spinning tools were the same & the process varied only very little. As I saw during spinning, yes, the yarns proved to be so, so different. Now that they are finished, I wanted to come back & compare […]
Read MoreWe joined hands and spent a mid-October Saturday together at the 10th annual Woodstock Fleece Festival. These right steps answered T’s big question: Why do you go to a spinning festival anyway? Reason Number 1, there are fibre animals, dear The 4-H Llama Club brought super tolerant llamas. This sweetheart was almost eye-level with 6 […]
Read MoreThe creative forces at Sheepy Time Knits have been keeping my spinning & knitting life very happy in one way or another since I first put together that Mandie is a dyer when we met at Stringtopia these many years ago. You may have noticed that they come up a lot on TKK, and never […]
Read MoreAll skeins are plied, and wound! It took exactly 3 months for this my biggest spinning project ever. First lashing of Romney wool locks to the combs happened on July 19th; last plying happened yesterday, October 19th. My singles for the plying are coming up from the tin by my wheel. The twist is well […]
Read MoreWhile spinning on my uber-patriotic Bosworth Moosie this morning, I had a thought. Why not share the spinning project that I am so close to starting? It is as Canadian as those colours, and is special besides. Who cares if we spoke only yesterday, right? Ontario produces superb wool Two months ago, I wrote something. […]
Read MoreToday, I am celebrating 10 years in Canada. Double-digits! We will batch-style various & sundry experiences as pitfalls, and just skip them. They all helped me get to the tag-line of this TKK blog anyway: Better living through fibre. Melvin must love you now. He only shows his tuxedo bib to special folks. Our Canadian […]
Read MoreIt’s been weeks, and I still can’t believe this statement is true: I have a Moosie! The whorl is 1.75″ of handcrafted moose antler on a tulipwood shaft. All together with a balancing pin she weighs 28g or one ounce. Jonathan & Sheila Bosworth offered a group of 10 with 5 different special shaft woods. […]
Read MoreHave you been waiting for this year’s Stringtopia class line-up to drop? It’s now called the Spring String Thing and is set for April 26 – 29, 2013. I’m not sure whether a hat-trick will be possible for me but each of the announcements has my Full Attention! It’s no secret that I have fallen in […]
Read MoreLast year’s push to work with my handspun yarns has really started to bear fruit. I’m excited because there’s now plenty more to share as brand new knits in my life. Fall Colours, my way Back in September, I told you about my Seriously Fun Spin. Weeks later the dyer, Brooke of The Painted Tiger, […]
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