Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 11:42PM Grab some popcorn, a soda and some wool! The tutorial is here!
Follow this link to the video or click on "Tutorials" in my menu bar.
art yarn, core spinning, locks, tailspinning, tutorial, wool in Fiber Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 10:00AM Oh. My. Goodness. I haven't created a tutorial, I've created a MONSTER!
First, I'm not good at editing myself, and the video is really long!
Second, I had a lot of fun doing it, so be watching for more topics!
Third, my husband is preparing his Oscar speach for his win in Directing and Editing.
As of right now, Saturday, Jan 15, it's still on the editing room floor, but will be up and running by tomorrow.
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 10:42AM It's pretty standard practice to buy and work with fleece from ewes: it's usually softer and there are more girls out there than boys! But I just realized that my studio is brimming with awesome male (some rams, some wethers) fleeces, and they need to be celebrated!
First off are the mohair locks that I recently purchased from The Critter Ranch. Her angora (and a cute little pygora) boys are wonderfully soft. If you want to meet the guys, she's blogged about them today as well. Sue is also a personal friend that I've sucked into Fiber Arts Friday!
This is Gus:
And Woodrow:
Them playing together well:
And Gus in a rich, purple batt that will be a layer of my soon-to-be unveiled Inara batt (again, part of Nerd Wars on Ravelry!).
The mohair locks were originally purchased so that I could make some tailspun yarn to put up in the shop, but I'm having a lot of fun playing with them in so many ways, I may need to get more from Sue!
And here's "Willie", a Bluefaced Leicester Ram. This is his first clip, so it's shorter than most BFL and finer. The crimp is to die for!
I'm thinking he may need to be core spun, too!
In other news, I have my core spinning tutorial filmed, and I'm just waiting for my husband to do some editing before posting it tonight. It features my Phat Fiber samples for January, but anyone with some locks and roving can spin along with it. (Hmmm . . . just realized, the locks in the video are from a Lincoln Longwool sheep named "Willie" as well. Gotta love them boys!)
Head over to Wonder Why for more Fibery fun this Friday!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 1:06PM
As mentioned before, Stone and String and I (Inspiration Fibers) are collaborating for Ravelry's Nerd Wars. We're on Team Browncoat; dedicated to keeping Firefly alive and the skies free. (For Bridget ;) and others: Firefly is a TV show by Joss Whedon that only was alive for 14 wonderful episodes and a terrific movie. Fans have kept up ferver for it for 8 years now. It's brilliant. It's a Western set in space. I know--but you should check it out on Netflix if you can!) Signups are taking place now, with the first battle starting on Feb. 1. Shelley and I are even official sponsors!
In preparation, Shelley and I are busy over our dye pots. Here's a sneak peak at "Kaylee" (very sneak peak--it's still dripping!). The yarn is my line called "Faith"; it's Bluefaced Leicester Superwash, worsted. Shelley will have similar colorways for Kaylee in her different yarn bases.
This is based on Kaylee at the market in the first episode of Firefly.
Stay tuned for Inara, River and Mal. They'll be batts in my shop, and will be ready to launch by Saturday!!
