Norfolk Horn wool spun at 25 wpi on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0.

Norfolk Horn wool 3 ply yarn laying on a table with a penny for scale.

Norfolk Horn wool 3 ply yarn wound in a skein laying on a table.

I finished spinning the second half of Norfolk Horn, Sample 93, at 25wpi for the singles and chain plied them to get a 3 ply, DK weight, 11 wpi yarn, 70 yards to 1.5 ounces.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #handspinners #NorfolkHornWool #yarn #🧶

Norfolk Horn wool singles spun at 20 wpi on Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Norfolk Horn wool 2 ply yarn on a table with a penny for scale.

Norfolk Horn 2 ply wool yarn wound into a skein on a table.

Yesterday, I started spinning the first half of the Norfolk Horn wool, Sample 93, at 20 wpi. Tonight I finished spinning the singles and plied them to get a 2 ply, DK weight, 11 wpi yarn, 69 yards to 1.5 ounces.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #handspinners #NorfolkHornWool #🧶 #yarn

Portland wool singles spun at 25 wpi on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Portland wool spun into a 3 ply, chain plied, sport weight yarn.

Portland wool spun into sport weight, 3 ply yarn, chain plied, wound into skein laying on a table.

I finished spinning the second half of the Portland wool, Sample 92, at 25 wpi and chain plied it to get a 3 ply, sport weight, 12 wpi yarn, 77 yards to 1.75 ounces.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #handspinners #PortlandWool #🧶 #yarn

A swatch of Tunisian Simple Stitch in blue yarn

Portland sheep wool 2 ply yarn laying on a table with a penny for scale.

Portland sheep wool 2 ply yarn wound into skein, laying on a table.

Day 1 and 2 of the Knitting Olympics: I finished the first half of Sample 92, Portland sheep, 104 yards of 2 ply, fingering weight yarn, 1.75 oz. I started learning Tunisian crochet and did a swatch of Tunisian Simple Stitch.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #yarn #🧶 #TunisianCrochet

A ball of Portland roving on a table.

Portland wool roving being spun into 25 wpi singles on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

A mosaic crochet swatch in white and blue in geometric shapes

Day 31 to 32 of the Stashdown Challenge: Yesterday, I started spinning the singles of Sample 92, Portland sheep wool for my breed and fiber study, and today, I worked on learning mosaic crochet during knit group.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #PortlandWool #MosaicCrochet #yarn #🧶

Kerry Hill wool spun at 20 wpi on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Kerry Hill wool yarn, 3 ply worsted weight, laying on a table with a penny for scale.

Kerry Hill wool, 3 ply worsted weight yarn, wound in a skein, laying on a table.

Days 27 through 30 of the Stashdown Challenge: I finished spinning the second half of the sample of Kerry Hill wool at 20 wpi and chain plied it to get a 3 ply, worsted weight 9 wpi yarn, 45 yards to 1.75 ounces.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #handspinners #KerryHillWool

Kerry Hill wool roving

2 ply Kerry Hill Wool yarn on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

2 ply Kerry Hill wool yarn laying on a table with a penny for scale.

2 ply Kerry Hill wool yarn wound in a skein laying on a table

Days 24 of the Stashdown Challenge: I finished spinning the first half of the sample of Kerry Hill wool at 20 wpi and plied it from a center pull ball to get a 2 ply, sport weight 12 wpi yarn, 82 yards to 1.75 ounces.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #handspinners #KerryHillWool

Shropshire wool singles spun on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0 at 30 wpi

Shropshire 3 ply yarn laying on a table with a penny for scale

Shropshire wool yarn, fingering weight 14 wpi, wound in a skein on a table.

Days 20 to 23 of the Stashdown Challenge: I finished spinning the second sample of Shropshire wool at 30 wpi and chain plied it to get a 3 ply, fingering weight 14 wpi yarn, 90 yards to 1.75 ounces.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #handspinners #ShropshireWool

2 ply Shropshire yarn on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0.

2 ply Shropshire yarn laying on a table with a penny for scale

2 ply Shropshire yarn wound into a skein laying on a table.

Day 14 of our Stashdown Challenge: I plied the singles of the first half of the Shropshire wool, sample 90A, from a center pull ball to get a 2 ply, sport weight yarn at 12 wpi, 73 yards to 1.75 ounces.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #handspinners #ShropshireWool #🧶 #yarn #spinsky

Shropshire wool singles spun ar 20 wpi on a custom painted Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Day 13 of our Stashdown Challenge: I finished spinning the singles of the first half of the Shropshire wool, sample 90A, at 20 wpi.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #handspinners #ShropshireWool #yarn #🧶

Depth Cowl in the process of being knit. Yarn has assigned pooling so there's a rainbows knit vertically in a tube between 2 sections of black.

Shropshire wool singles being spun at 20 wpi on a custom painted Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Day 11 of our Stashdown Challenge: I started spinning the singles of the first half of the Shropshire wool, sample 90A, at 20 wpi, and I worked on the Depth Cowl.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #knitting #OxfordDownWool #DepthCowl #yarn #🧶 #handspun #knitting

Oxford Down singles spun at 30 wpi on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0.

Oxford Down singles chain plied on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0.

Oxford Down 3 ply, fingering weight yarn at 14 wpi laying on a table with a penny for scale.

Oxford Down yarn wound into a skein, laying on a table.

Day 9 and 10 of our Stashdown Challenge: I finished spinning the singles of 2nd half of the Oxford Down wool, Sample 89B, at 30 wpi, and chain plied them for a 3 ply, fingering yarn at 14 wpi, about 85 yards to 1.75 ounces.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #handspinners #OxfordDownWool

Loon swimming on in front of weeds. Weeds, Loon, and part of the water completed, with the exception of the outlining

Oxford Down wool being spun on a custom painted Electric Eel Wheel 6.0 at 30 wpi.

Day 4 of the Stashdown Challenge: I worked on the Loon Tapestry kit from The Felting Studio a bit more, and started spinning the second half of Sample 89, Oxford Down wool, at 30 wpi.

#TheFeltingStudio #needlefelting #handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #OxfordDownWool #yarn #🧶 #handspun

Singles spun at 25 wpi on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Yarn after plying laying on a table.

Yarn wound into a skein laying on a table.

Day 3 of our Stashdown Challenge: I finished spinning sample 89A of my breed study, Oxford Down wool. I spun the singles at 25 wpi and plyed them from a center pull ball to get a 2 ply sport yarn, 12 wpi, 103 yards.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #handspinners #OxfordDownWool #yarn #🧶

Oxford Down wool roving on a table.

Oxford Down wool spun at 25 wpi on a custom painted Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Day 2 of our Stashdown Challenge: I started spinning sample 89 of my breed and fiber study, Oxford Down sheep wool.

#handspinning #BreedandFiberStudy #handspun #handspinners #OxfordDownWool #yarn #🧶

Breed and fiber study card showing information on the Lleyn sheep fiber samples spun with attached yarn samples and knit swatches.

Breed and fiber study card showing information on the Navajo Churro sheep fiber samples spun with attached yarn samples and knit swatches.

DAY 16 (July 20th) of Tour de Fleece - I knit the swatches and finished the cards for the Lleyn sheep fiber and for the Navajo-Churro sheep fiber for my breed and fiber study.

#handspinning #handspinners #yarn #🧶 #handspun #breedandfiberstudy #LleynWool #NavajoChurroWool #TourdeFleece2025

Breed and fiber study card showing information on the Silk Mawatas/Hankies samples spun with attached yarn samples and knit swatches.

DAY 14 (July 18th) of Tour de Fleece - I knit the swatches and finished the card for the Silk Mawatas/Hankies for my breed and fiber study.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinner #yarnspinning #yarn #🧶 #handspun #breedstudy #breedandfiberstudy #SilkMawata #TourdeFleece2025

Breed and fiber study card showing information on the Cormo wool samples spun with attached yarn samples and knit swatches.

DAY 13 (July 17th) of Tour de Fleece - I knit the swatches and finished the card for the Cormo wool for my breed and fiber study.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinners #yarn #🧶 #yarnspinning #yarnspinners #handspun #breedstudy #breedandfiberstudy #CormoWool #TourdeFleece2025

Breed study card showing information information on the Silk Cap samples spun with attached yarn samples and knit swatches.

Breed study card showing information information on the Suri Alpaca samples spun with attached yarn samples and knit swatches.

DAY 12 (July 16th) of Tour de Fleece - I knit the swatches and finished the cards for the Suri Alpaca and for the Silk Caps for my breed and fiber study.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinners #yarnspinning #yarn #🧶 #handspun #breedandfiberstudy #SuriAlpaca #SilkCap #TourdeFleece2025

Nylon fiber singles being spun on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0.

Nylon fiber 2 ply yarn on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Nylon 2 ply sport weight yarn with a penny for a scale on a table.

Nylon 2 ply sport weight yarn wound into a skein on a table.

DAY 7 (July 11th) of Tour de Fleece - I spun the second half of Sample 88, Nylon at 25 wpi, and I plied the singles from a center pull ball to get a 2 ply, sport weight yarn at 12 wpi, 40 yards to 1 ounce.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinners #yarn #🧶 #handspun #breedandfiberstudy #NylonFiber

Nylon fiber yarn chain plied on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0.

3 ply, sport weight, nylon fiber yarn on a niddy noddy against my fingers.

Nylon fiber yarn with a penny for scale laying on a table.

Nylon fiber yarn wound in a skein laying on a table.

DAY 6 (July 10th) of Tour de Fleece - I chain plied the first half of Sample 88, Nylon fiber. Yarn is a 3 ply, sport weight at 12 wpi, 37 yards to 1 ounce.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinners #yarnspinning #yarn #🧶 #handspun #breedstudy #breedandfiberstudy #Nylon #NylonFiber #TourdeFleece2025

Nylon fiber on a table.

Nylon fiber singles spun on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0.

DAY 5 (July 9th) of Tour de Fleece - I finished spinning the singles for the first half of Sample 88, Nylon fiber, at 35 wpi.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinner #yarnspinning #yarn #🧶 #handspun #breedstudy #breedandfiberstudy #Nylon #NylonFiber #TourdeFleece2025

3 ply Hebridean worsted weight yarn held out from a niddy noddy on my fingers.

3 ply Hebridean worsted weight yarn laying on table

3 ply Hebridean worsted weight yarn wound in a skein and laying on a table.

DAY 4 (July 8th) of Tour de Fleece - I finished spinning the singles for the second half of Sample 87, Hebridean sheep at 30 wpi, and chain plied them to get a worsted weight yarn, 9 wpi, 43 yards to 1.75 ounces.

#handspun #handspinners #yarnspinning #yarn #🧶 #breedandfiberstudy #TourdeFleece2025

Hebridean brown fleece singles spun on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

DAY 3 (July 7th) of Tour de Fleece - I began spinning singles for the second half of Sample 87, Hebridean sheep at 30 wpi.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinners #yarn #🧶 #yarnspinning #yarnspinners #handspun #breedandfiberstudy #HebrideanWool #HebrideanSheep #TourdeFleece2025

Hebridean 2 ply yarn on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0 bobbin.

Hebridean 2 ply yarn shown on my fingers while on a niddy noddy.

Hebridean 2 ply yarn laying on a table

Hebridean 2 ply yarn wound into a skein on a table.

DAY 2 (July 6th) of Tour de Fleece - I plyed the singles of the first half of Sample 87, Hebridean, from a center pull ball to get a 2 ply, worsted weight, 9 wpi yarn, about 53 yards.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinners #yarn #🧶 #handspun #breedandfiberstudy #HebrideanWool #TourdeFleece2025

A picture of a ball of Hebridean top, in a dark brown, natural color from the sheep.

A natural brown Hebridean fleece top spun at 20 wpi on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0.

DAY 1 (July 5th) of Tour de Fleece - Still working on my breed study. I spun singles for the first half of Sample 87, Hebridean sheep at 20 wpi. Similar feeling to Corriedale or Romney.

#handspinning #handspun #handspinners #🧶 #yarn #handspun #breedandfiberstudy #Hebridean #TourdeFleece2025

Navajo Churro yarn plyed on a bobbin on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0.

Navajo Churro 2 ply yarn on a niddy noddy with strands held on my fingers.

Navajo Churro 2 ply yarn lying on a table.

Navajo Churro 2 ply yarn wound in a skein lying on table.

I spun the second half of Sample 86, Navajo Churro sheep at 25 wpi, and plyed it from a center pull ball. The yarn is a 3 ply sport weight, 12 wpi, about 44 yards to 1 ounce.

#handspinning #handspun #yarn #🧶 #handspinner #yarnspinning #breedandfiberstudy #NavajoChurroFiber #NavajoChurroSheep

Lleyn yarn singles spun on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

3 ply Lleyn yarn on a niddy nody

3 ply Lleyn yarn laying on a table with a nickel for scale.

3 ply Lleyn yarn wound in a skein laying on a table.

I spun the singles at 30 wpi, and I chain plyed the singles of the second half of Sample 85, Lleyn sheep. The yarn is a 3 ply worsted weight, 9 wpi, about 62 yards to 1.75 ounces.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinners #yarn #🧶 #handspun #breedstudy #breedandfiberstudy #LleynFiber #LleynSheep

Ball of Faroe Island commercial top for spinning in a light gray.

Singles of Faroe Island Top spun at 20 wpi on an Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

I spun singles for the first half of Sample 84, Faroe Island sheep at 20 wpi. Seems really similar to Icelandic.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinners #handspinnersky #yarn #🧶 #yarnspinners #handspun #breedstudy #breedandfiberstudy #FaroeIslandFiber #FaroeIslandSheep

Cormo singles spun at 40 wpi on and Electric Eel Wheel 6.0

Cormo 3 ply yarn, 14 wpi, fingering weight on a niddy noddy.

Cormo 3 ply yarn, 14 wpi, fingering weight, laying on a table

Cormo 3 ply yarn, 14 wpi, fingering weight, wound in a skein on a table.

Here's the second half of Sample 81, Cormo. Singles were spun at 40 wpi, and chain plyed to get a 3 ply, fingering weight, 14 wpi yarn, about 75 yards to 2 ounces.

#handspinning #handspunyarn #handspinners #yarn #🧶 #yarnspinner #handspun #breedstudy #breedandfiberstudy #CormoWool #CormoFiber