A photo of an in progress spin on a black wood turkish spindle. The background is a laptop with small flowers. The spindle has 3 colours showing, these are peach, burgundy and orange.
Have started spinning the malabrigo nube (can't remember colourway). Using a turkish spindle from Tine and Floyd.
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A photo of blended fibre. The fibres are in a spiral sat on green fabric. The colours of the batt are teal, pale green and a stripe of white.
Batt making time.
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A photo of a garden. The focus of the photo is the skeins of yarn hanging from a dark wooden pole suspended from 2 upright wooden trellis panels. There are 3 bottles of cleaning sprays hanging from 3 of the skeins. These are weights to help straighten the yarn. The skeins are mainly purples and reds with 1 blue.
Finally had some sunshine so i could wash and dry a small portion of my handspun yarn. This is the 1st of 6.
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Continuing my fiber journey with flax! The most difficult fiber I've spun so far. I was so surprised I got usable yarn because it looked like straw when I was spinning it. Scouring makes such a difference!
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Photo of a plaited vraid of fibre on a blue background. The braid is mainly grey with moss green and bits of teal and navy. The labels of the dyer is visible- Felt Fusion UK
Photo of a plied skein of handspun yarn. One ply is thicker than the other. Mainly grey with navy and moss green and teal.
I got some beautiful muted tones of fibre in 2 corriedale braids. Spun one really fine and the other not so much, wanted an uneven ply.
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A photo of a turkish drop spindle half filled with irregular green fibre. The spindle's arms are striped blue laminated wood. The background is a royal blue fabric.
#Spindlebingo spin from stash
This green fibre is from a bag of ends I bought in a sale last year.
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A photo of a wooden turkish spindle with handspun half wound on to the arms. The arms are in a cross formation and the shaft is pointing off screen. The fibre is mainly pale pink with hints of lilac. The spindle is sitting on unspun fibre, pale green in the bottom left corner and pinky lilac everywhere else.
#Spindlebingo no 20. Spin from stash.
I got this braid of Polwarth from a dyer I often use. Firbeck Fibres in the UK.
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An image of a grid of spinning related tasks or accomplishments. It is a cream beige background with dark red writing. The central square is dark red with white writing.
Here's the #Spindlebingo card
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A photo of a small wooden turkish drop spindle with bright yellow handspun yarn wound on to the arms. On a royal blue background with slight shadows.
Neon merino. Turkish spindle.
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Is anyone doing #SpindleBingo
It's on IG, but I find it so hard to post on there, I'm going to do it here too.
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A photo of 2 handspun skeins. The left skein is mainly orange with hints if yellow and red. The right is lilac and pale green. These are chain plied, but I don't like the result. I didn't hold the strands while they were being spun (which i normally do). Now I've realised my mistake I can continue.
Did some chain plying after a long gap. Hate the result. Turns out I underspun. I know what I did differently to normal.
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A photo of a handspun skein of yarn on a white background. The skein is place horizontally. The colours are a mix of deep purple and magenta.
Making notes on handspun skeins and who I've given them away to. This one went to Lisa. Merino and silk from Ashenflock. #SpinningandFiberPrep
A photo of 3 handspun skeins of yarn hanging from a dark wood curtain pole straddling two upright trellis panels. The yarn is a cream or natural colour. There is shadowing on the bottom third of the photo. Behind the yarn is a garden with blue sky at the top of the photo.
Finally... wind and sunshine. Only managed to dry these 3 skeins of handspun yarn. One is Shetland, the other 2 are corriedale. #SpinningandFiberPrep
A photo of a spiral of blended fibre on a teal background. The fibre colours are pink, orange, cream, and a dash of lilac. There is a white and black patterned rug in the background at the top of the photo.
Have run out of handdyed braids to spin, back to making batts.
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A photo of a nearly full bobbin of handspun art yarn. Near the top of the photo is the back of the wooden spinning wheel. The yarn is made from a blend of purple, pink and turquoise. It is plied with a slightly fluffy black yarn.
When one needs a quick spin and only has random blends. . . . Time for art yarn.
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Screenshot of slides in a Powerpoint presentation showing color blending and gradient yarn samples of 11 students.
A few days ago I taught the last session of my class Color Blending and Spinning Gradient Yarns to a delightful, creative, thoughtful group of students. Isn't their work amazing?
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A photo of a handspun skein of yarn slightly curved on a bluey turquoise background. The colours of the skein are navy blue, orange, salmon pink, yellow and a tiny strip of lilac. The handspun yarn is very skinny, laceweight.
This is one of the 50g braids of handdyed fibre I bought a while ago for a quick spin. This one is a very skinny single.
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A photo of a medium full bobbin of handspun yarn. The bobbin is made of wood, the yarn is 2 ply bright white tencel (wood pulp fibre).
Tencel fibre spun into singles and plied.
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A ball of handspun singles with two ends coming out of the top and bottom ready to ply. The strand toward the top of the photo shows over twisted singles that are curly and tangled. The ball is blues and purples in real life the colours are turquoise. The ball is sat on a pale turquoise/grey fabric.
Plying from a cake. Not enjoying the process...
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Playing on the drum Carder tonight! This one is gonna be so fun to spin! 🧶
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A photo of a handdyed braid of wool. It is plaited and arranged in a spiral. The colours are grey, pale pink, magenta pink and lilac purple. It is sitting on a royal blue background.
A photo looking down on 2 blended batts arranged in a ball. Both are sitting on vertical wooden slats of a bench. The top ball is mainly pinks, the bottom is greys and purples.
Sometimes I buy a cheaper braid of handdyed fibre because I want to make a blend. I bought this from Millhouse Designs on etsy. I split the braid into its separate colours. One blend used the purples and greys, the other the pinks.
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A drum carder filled with blended fibre in greys and purples, the photo is taken on a diagonal slant.
Whenever I feel I'm running out of fibre to spin...(have to buy more but don't have the budget). I make a couple of batts.
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A photo of a wooden electric spinning wheel with a nearly full bobbin of handspun yarn. The yarn is a thick and thin art yarn with a gold thread plied. The colours are greeny turquoise, yellow, nay blue and bright pink. The background is a wicker seat with white bit of paper.
A photo showing a full bobbin of hand spun yarn on a wooden electric spinning wheel. It is sitting on a wicker chair. The yarn on the bobbin is a thick and thin single with colours of bright pink, yellow, brown, greeny turquoise and a dash of navy.
A multi coloured handdyed braid of metino. It is plaited and folded in half. The colours of the braid are brown, bright pink, navy, and yellow. A yellowy orange label is showing the dyer - Penberth Yarns. The braid is lying on a pale turquoise background.
I bought a braid with a wide variety of colours specifically to make art yarn. The braid is merino from a Cornish dyer called Penberth Yarns.
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A photo of a half spun small braid of fibre. I am spinning this fibre on my turquoise 3d printed eew nano e-spinner. This sits on a lap tray with a butterfly motif. The fibre is half pale brown and half turquoise.
Have spun the brown half of this mini braid.
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So much handspun embroidery thread! I did 2 ounces this time and it made alot more then I thought it would! This is now washed and hanging to dry, then it will be divided up and dyed.
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An autumnal handdyed braid of fluff plaited and in a spiral. The braid sits on a grey and white striped fabric
An aerial shot of an electric spinning wheel with a full bobbin of autumnal yarn (thick and thin single). The wheel is sat on a cane chair.
Once upon a time I bought a "seconds" braid from @craftycatknittybit.bsky.social
I still can't believe I can fit a whole 100g braid on to one bobbin!
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A plaited small braid of fibre in a spiral. Sitting on a pale turquoise fabric background. The fibre has a yellowy/ orange ball band with the dyer's brand name - Penberth Yarns (a Cornish seller). The fibre is in 2 colours brown and turquoise.
Finally opened one of my fibre treat bundles. This is a handdyed 50g braid of Dorset Horn. I shall be spinning this on my eew nano. #SpinningandFiberPrep
A spiral of fibre with a grey and white striped fabric background. The batt has a mainly brown and white streak, but there is some blue and purple visible too.
Finally managed to get 40 mins in one go for some spinning. (Puppy asleep). Made this scrappy batt a while ago.
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A white box with kid open revealing 2 handdyed braids of fibre. This fibre is Polwarth (sheep). Both braids are plaited and folded in half. The top braid is a pastel rainbow with yellow, green, blue and pink. The bottom braid is pink into magenta into blue. There is a dark green business card on top of the top braid.
Had a really hard meeting, so treated myself to some fluff. Found a new seller on etsy.
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