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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YST Episode 188 How old is that fiber
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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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YST Episode 187 The big wash up
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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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YST Episode 186
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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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YST Episode 185 A Yin Yang fleece
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What? Black and white wool on one sheep?
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Creativity in the midst of a Pandemic
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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
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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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YST Episode 184 07/21/21
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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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YST Episode 183 07/19/21
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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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YST A Brief Hello
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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.
info_outlineToday's podcast includes an interview with Deborah Niemann, who has the wonderful job of working for the Livestock Conservancy organization. In our interview, she shares all the details of the next two year program to introduce spinners and fiber artists to the 22 rare and recovering breeds of sheep through the Shave 'Em to Save 'Em program. I recently got the passport that is used to record whenever you use a fiber from one of these breeds and will be talking about working with these fibers in future pod casts.
Here are some of the links for this podcast:
Teaching videos for sheep breeders of rare wools
Woolhalla Tunis a provider of SESE breeds fiber
Incredible Edible use of waste fleece for mulching
Finally I will be renewing my efforts to remind my listeners about the Spinners' Journal I have for sale, by periodical posting a promo pod cast. If you are interested now, you can find it on Lulu.com here