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YST Episode 153 TdF2018 Part 1

Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast

Release Date: 08/18/2018

YST Episode 189 Spinning cotton and picking wool show art YST Episode 189 Spinning cotton and picking wool

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This podcast talks about why hand spinners have such a hard time spinning cotton, and ways to help that process.

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I have collected fiber to spin over the years, and am just now getting around to some of the older purchases. This podcast talks about some of that spinning.

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After I spin a skein of yarn, It needs to be washed. Sometimes, I put this off until I have many to wash. I also talk about using the flow chart for how fibers burn, to determine what fiber content you have to spin.

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The week's summary for Sept 5-11th of my spinning projects as well as a few homestead projects.

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What? Black and white wool on one sheep?

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Back in January 2021, I was doing the New Year thing, thinking about podcasting again, and putting a discussion about the New Year in that podcast.  Somehow, the podcast never happened, and this bit of writing I did, was never published.  Is it still relevant?  I think so, but in a softer way, in that we are really not totally motionless anymore by the Pandemic.   I started the musing with the question 'why during 2020 and especially forced to stay at home, did I not burst into a shower of creative work?'  I had to look at what I have needed in the past to be...

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July 26 2021 An Open ended Absence show art July 26 2021 An Open ended Absence

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Just a brief note to fill those of you that haven't heard of my Mom's illness.  I have to stop the podcast for awhile, as I spend time with her.

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A new to me spinning wheel, 3D printed, is the topic of this podcast. There's also a brief discussion of the different between Scotch and Double Drive on spinning wheels.

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In a house full of fiber to spin, sometimes some shows up in the strangest of places.

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Podcasting for me is on the back burner at this time.  I plan to return with the Tour de Fleece in July 2021.

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My favorite time of the spinning year, the Tour de Fleece event.  As promised, here is the review of what I spun this year.

This is part one of the two part podcast.

A few links.  To see photos of all of the lovely fibers and yarns I talked about, go to my group in Ravelry, yarnspinners spin in and look at the TdF2018 thread in the discussions.  You must be signed into Ravelry for the link to work.

Links to the fiber artists whose fiber I spun and talked about are:

A Star is Shorn  the Etsy store.  I spun a superwash merino 

Fellview Fibres  the source of the wool/silk rolags I spun for the first challenge day.