What is my favorite wheel to spin yarn?
What is my favorite wheel for spinning yarn? Does it have to be one? It really does vary depending on what weight of yarn I want to spin, where I want to spin, and what will be happening around me. I was asked recently what wheel was my favorite so far after embarking on a…
Carnival and Purple Passion Lockspun Textured Art Yarn
Got my shawl photographed this evening. I used a giant Tunisian Crochet Hook and a modified double crochet made up stitch I created to get that lacey open effect. Tunisian Crochet Textured Art Yarn. All yarn was lockspun and hand dyed. The fiber is Leicester Longwool. I lockspun and thread plyed with a fine 2…
Art Yarn Collection
I have been spinning and spinning art yarn on my new Ashford JUMBO Espinner since January. I wanted to create an Art Yarn Collection of colorways I dye myself and can duplicate close enough for mutiple skeins to work together while still keeping each skein its own unique self. I have been enjoying using the…
Iced Sangria Textured Lockspun Art Yarn
I created a new colorway of Textured Art Yarn for the shop. This is definitely a farm yarn as the beautiful chocolate Argentine llama fleece was grown here at Alba Ranch. I lockspun white mohair lockes into Sangria’s fleece and thread plyed it all with a fine laceweight alpaca boucle yarn. There is so much…
Spring time…….
What I was spinning last night is now skeined off into 6 skeins getting ready to wash and set the twist. Snapped a couple of quick pics. Help me name the new yarn. What to call it? Spring Flowers. Spring Blossoms, Spring Bouquet. Comment below which one? Update: Spring Bouquet won the name!
Spinning Artyarn on Ashford’s Jumbo E Spinner
I just received my new Ashford Jumbo E Spinner. I thought I would do a little review of this new E Spinner. I have never used an e spinner before but I am already used to spinning artyarn on Ashford’s Original Country Spinner and the Ashford Country Spinner 2… so how hard could it be,…
Hand dyed Yarn and MORE Yarn….in the dye pot and on the drying rack
I have been busy dying yarns. They are in the dye pot, on the drying rack, on the clothes tree, and in the tree branches. The backyard seems to have yarn all over the place. Yarn, yarn, yarn everywhere. here is just a few photos of…