From the category archives:

Fiber Information

Stash Enhancement: Sheep 2 Shoe

January 3, 2009

For those of you who have tried the Socks that Rock® yarn from Blue Moon Fiber Arts®, you know how wonderful it is – fabulous colorways in a beautiful, squishy yarn. Well, because I wanted to see what it would take to spin a yarn like that, I bought their “Sheep 2 Shoe” kit a [...]

Read the full article →

Spinning Cotswold Roving

May 15, 2008

The Spinner’s Study group on Ravelry (login required) is a relatively new group that was started with the idea of helping each learn about different fibers and techniques. What the group has decided to do is to pick two different fibers each month and have the members post about how they are preparing and spinning [...]

Read the full article →

Spinning Hemp, Part II

April 25, 2008

In my earlier post on spinning hemp, I showed you my initial progress on spinning singles using a wet spinning method. Now I’ve finished making the yarn and wanted to show you the results. As you can see, I didn’t do anything fancy here – I just made a standard a two-ply fingering weight yarn, [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries