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hello from twitter!

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the groypers, supposedly

debouillet ewe 2-3 months before shearing time

just look at that crimp

that temp isn’t so bad where i live now. humidity would be single digits.

if humid tho it’s miserable.

i just measured them taking notes of their width (shown) and length, so i can come up with a plan. never knitted a sweater!

i bought the yarn variety to figure out which sheep i wanted, and how i might want to spin. i got them ecru to learn dyeing with.

family was asked about new year’s resolutions. i said to learn to dye yarn (bought a natural kit in summer 2021) and to knit a sweater out of this sampler i have (bought late 2022) which will be dyed.

each of the 12 yarns will be a different color.

ios text completion does this too. as i’m typing another letter i see my wanted word then i touch it but it’s something else!

love this little spindle. spun 46 yards of ultra fine yarn with it. about 45 wraps per inch. estimate 720 yards per 50 grams.

for comparison, malabrigo lace is about 30 wpi and 470 yards. this looks comparable to a single ply of 2/18 weaving yarn, which i also measured at 45 wpi.

love this little spindle. spun 46 yards of ultra fine yarn with it. about 45 wraps per inch. estimate 720 yards per 50 grams.

for comparison, malabrigo lace is about 30 wpi and 470 yards. this looks comparable to a single ply of 2/18 weaving yarn, which i also measured at 45 wpi.

went to the local rural art gallery, having a fiber show right now. bought some variegated wool to spin (i’ve only spun undyed so far). the blue is super fine, the red is sorta fine.

there’s some incredibly cheap handspun yarn for sale, but it’s also incredibly coarse.

‪also these carders are stupid small. makes the techniques i see hard to do as there isn’t enough depth, and they only hold like a gram of fiber.‬

‪but a cheap introduction, and i was concerned my matted fleece might mess them up (it did not). i think i do want to buy good ones. ‬

so much kemp in that last sample. it doesn’t always twist lock, so it definitely should be plied, maybe with better yarn.

all the comb waste is also short fibers. i wouldn’t use any of it in knitting, just as weft for low-wear items (curtains, placemats, etc).

i carded waste wool and spun it.

closest to the whorl was already there. then there’s fairly nice soft waste from combs (second pic). then commercial merino top scraps (not pictured). and finally some of the worst waste from the combs (last 2 pics), full of kemp and matted bits.

merry christmas! i got a couple books and some mini wool carders.

room is a mess, but i could just build it into the support beams here. 90 inches of space in the closest area, 79 inches further back. or i could try double-weave on a backstrap, but i’d have to make a new one of those as mine is like 22". might as well make a weighted loom.

i think i will see how it weaves up, too.

and then idk make a warp weighted loom so i can weave 5 feet wide.

of course, after spinning 5kg of wool i’m sure i’d be much faster. i’ve probably spun at most 500 grams, including on spindles.

made 59 grams of chunky 2-ply yarn on the wheel. malabrigo rios for scale in the third pic. knitted some up on 6 mm needles.

was thinking of making a blanket. math from this sample says i’d need 5 kg. that’d take me a solid week to spin. as in no sleep, no eat. 😂

you can just comb your hair from your comb into some merino and spin it if you want to

photo of luigi mangione being brought into ny after being extradited from pennsylvania, made up like an album cover titled “me against the world” a la tupac

this album gonna be lit

and dylann was convicted for a bunch of federal hate crimes with the death penalty, and forever in jail in south carolina

ignorant take trying to stir shit up. the 2022 buffalo tops shooting is very similar to the charleston church shooting, and in the same state as the ceo assassination so we can more fairly compare.

and he was charged with terrorism.

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grabbed some cotton yarn the other night when i tied up the multicolored skein i added twist to before wetting and thwacking it.

got excited about this, having a strong interest in tools i can make myself for wool. but this seems to only be for carding woven wool fabric (after fulling?) to loosen it up some so it’s more airy, hence warmer.

A.D.I.D.A.S.

(all day i dream about sheep)

my never-ending darning project that got me into fiber arts: this smartwool hoodie

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me, thinking nothing of it: “so i tied it up in 4 places, got it wet, and thwacked it.”

my spouse: