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Tour de Fleece started yesterday, July 5th. (Also the Tour de France.)

I have SO many spinning wips. I joined two teams, one for spinning fleeces and one for spindle spinning.

I should have joined the Queer spinning team, but they're doing a more formal style and I can't do strict rules right now. (I also don't want prizes or to place in the top 3 or whatever. Idk why.)

I'm working on clearing off bead spindles to spin a sock yarn. 🙃

Tried to take the Louet #spinning wheel apart. The wheel didn’t come off. I cleaned it. Now thinking of painting something simple on it and then lackering the wheel so it’s easier to clean

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The fleece is a lovely dark chocolate brown. I always add a lock to my fiber arts journal. It just smells like musk and lavender now. 😂

So, this is the problem fleece. It has a break halfway down the lock. But now I'm carding this fleece and removing stuff that is un-spinnable... some of the fleece is more sound than other parts.
Meaning, there are locks that DON'T break in the middle. Weird, but it happens?

Good morning/afternoon.

I am resting (Still) from my turbo art month this month. Whew.

I am making time to work on spinning the fleeces I have. I want to spin at least 2lbs of yarn. (Or close to 1kg or thereabouts. Not exact.)

Working on the dark Romney x Border Leicester fleece from 2022. It is soft, but it has a "musk" to it, even when using lavender wool wash. People say that Rams have a "musky smell" to their fleece. I cannot confirm this assertion.
#knitting #crochet #fiberarts #spinning

Reading up about various bio nylons (typically from corn, using gene-edited bacteria)… sounds very promising. Couldn’t find any information about by-products/waste, or more practically, how it takes dyes.

Business press reckon for clothing it can be quite breathable and moisture wicking (unlike normal nylon), and may be hypoallergenic. Explains Lululemon going all in on this material, at a guess.

I now have a little bit to see how it spins and blends.

#FiberArts #spinning @fiberarts

Plied the yarn I spun on Sunday. It’s course (Drenths heideschaap). So I’m thinking what I can do with that yarn plus all the rest I’ve spun over the last few years. A cardigan? I’d love to do that but I’m not great at knitting items of clothing. They always end up too big or too small or just weird. Plus not all the yarn has the same wpi. So maybe I’ll do a bag. Or another blanket. Or if I do a blanket with 2 strands held together and I do it in linen stich it could be a rug… #knitting #spinning

I have only just realized that most yarn swifts are marketed to knitters and not to spinners, and this difference is important. Yarn is often sold in hanks, which need to be wound into cakes or balls before knitting or crocheting. This is easier than winding it into the hank to begin with, which is what a spinner does. If you're a #disabled spinner, you can get really picky about your tools! #knitting #spinning #handspinning #handmade #handcraft #bitchingandwhining