YST Episode 189 Spinning cotton and picking wool
Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast
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
Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast
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
Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast
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
Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast
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
Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast
What? Black and white wool on one sheep?
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Creativity in the midst of a Pandemic
Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast
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
Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast
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
Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast
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
Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast
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
Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast
Podcasting for me is on the back burner at this time. I plan to return with the Tour de Fleece in July 2021.
info_outlineSo much behind that title! I am not stopping the audio podcast. I am moving forward on the wave of technology and taking my concept for YST with it. I have set up a channel on TwitchTV
You can find me under the same name as the podcast, yarnspinnerstales.
I plan to live stream twice a week and during those videos you can join me, chat by typing, watch in the video what I am working on (and have been trying to explain with words for 12 years in the podcast!) ask me questions,tell me what you are doing, and so on and so on. I think as the community of listeners/watchers/chatters grow we will come close to a vision I have always had for YST, a spin in.
I also have a Discord channel set up for us to chat, and share photos. It would be a great place to ask questions you would like me to answer there or show on the next live stream. Click this link for the invitation to join the channel.
Live streams will be Weds evenings and Sunday afternoons. Once you are on Twitch and are following my channel, make sure you also click to be alerted when I go live. The alert will always tell you in your own time zone.
If you can not watch the live stream, the videos will be available on my channel for 2 weeks. Be sure to check in and watch it.