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This listing is for MADE TO ORDER handspun 2 ply yarn featuring lofty thick and thin merino wool spirals. Sold in 5 yard increments. Yarn will come in one continuous length unless specified otherwise. **I can make this yarn in about any color by dyeing the wool fiber, as it is hand dyed there may be variations in color/shade throughout. A color reference is always helpful! Please reach out to me if you'd like a specific color. If multiple colors(within the same yarn) are requested there may be an additional cost. If you would like a dyed version of this yarn, please view this listing: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1513593377 This yarn will work best for your fiber arts projects such as weaving, macrame/macraweave, and embroidery pieces, or even needle felting, but the sky is the limit when it comes to your creativity! Knitting is possible with this yarn on larger needles. I can modify the larger spirals to be a bit smaller if desired. When using for your projects, take extra care to prevent unraveling, this yarn has been steam set but may still come apart easier than other typical yarns or materials. Tie off any ends before cutting for use in your fiber art projects. There are no synthetic materials in my yarns and are all sustainably handmade with care by me. I dye my own wool and silk, as such dye lots may vary therefore it is recommended to purchase the entire amount you may need in one order. If you have any special requests, I accept custom yarn orders so please reach out to me with any inquiries! I can spin yarn in a variety of styles/weights but lean towards the bulkier ones. Colors may vary slightly from screen to screen, I do my best to portray accurate colors in my photographs which are taken in natural light. All of my handspun art yarns will be shipped out in compostable, recyclable & reusable plastic free packaging with 10% of the purchase going towards an environmental or humanities based charity. See my shop announcements for the charity chosen for the current month! Follow me on Instagram @meliorfiberstudio for updates, coupons, behind the scenes, and sneak peeks at what's to come.
How to Blend Fiber to Make Rolags on a Blending Board. Make beautiful hand rolled Rolags for Hand Spinning. Make Handspun Yarn from your hand blended Fibers Using KnitPicks Wool of the Andes Roving.
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How to Blend Fiber to Make Rolags on a Blending Board. Make beautiful hand rolled Rolags for Hand Spinning. Make Handspun Yarn from your hand blended Fibers Using KnitPicks Wool of the Andes Roving.
Take a peek inside my notebook. I wish I could tell you that I have always loved keeping detailed notes about my fiber experiments, but the truth is, it’s taken practice. As my ideas race ahe…
It's Free Pattern Friday! Today, the Idyll Hat and Cowl in Ariana. We just got a new yarn in, and as so often happens, we got super excited and had to make something new! Ariana (100g/91yds) is a unique yarn. It's a kind of a mesh tube made of bamboo with a squishy polyamide filling. …
Three times a week they went out to the greenhouses behind the castle to study Herbology, with a dumpy little witch called Professor Sprout, where they learned how to take care of all the strange plants and fungi, and found out what they were used for. - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling Description: The colours refer to the various plants and funghi in the greenhouses, of course. I wanted to present a variety, not only green plants, and I also wanted the yarn to be more interesting, so I added bits of rust red and yellow. I also spun in pieces of commercially produced leaf ribbon, and green glass beads. Fibre Types: merino wool, mulberry silk, linen, bamboo Colours: greens, dark brown, rust red, yellow Add-Ins: green thread, pieces of leaf ribbon, green glass beads
Do you have stacks of unused fabric in your craft closet? How about if you dust them off and learn how to make fabric yarn with them?!
Here you will find photos of some of the spindles I have made. Jarod is a top whorl drop spindle. The shaft is made out of a Cocobolo chopstick, and the whorl is a metal bowl. It weighs approximate…
By Benjamin KrudwigFor our fiber collaboration this month, I had the pleasure of working with Into the Whirled. This month, I wanted to try my hand at spinning beaded yarn. There are a few ways to spin beads into yarn, but I think I might have chosen the most involved (but most secure) method.The inspiration for my skein came from the name of the colorway; "Cripple Creek." As many Coloradans know, Cripple Creek was a hotspot during the gold rush of 1890 founded by Bobby Womack. When I was a child, my grandfather and my uncle wrote a musical called "Bobby Womack and the City of Gold" so the link between Cripple Creek and gold has stuck with me ever since. I chose gold beads for this reason.
along the vine, originally uploaded by wooldancer. Is it too late to wish you a Happy New Year? i realise i am a whole month behind.. which is a revelation, as it means i am in-front of my 2-month lag that was 2008! [friends who see me daily know i have "better late than never" tattooed to my forehead.] i used to blame it on having twins... I'm back from my summer break.. the famdamily & I enjoyed a lovely holiday in Melbourne.. i even managed to spin out at Ceres Environmental Park with some fellow Ravelry friends - yay! January for the wooldancin scene saw an outta-this-whirld Freeform Art Yarn Workshop, which i held at the NSW Weavers & Spinners Guild 2009 Summer School. (pix on flickr soon!) I had the pleasure of spinning out with some of the sweetest, wide-eyed & creative spinstars.. & reports back from them they had a wonderful spinfest of a time too *-* I am slowly getting some of my progress pix from the summer holiday work onto flickr.. the yarn pictured here titled Along the Vine was spun in the first week of Jan to get my spin-mojo ready for a crazy session of workshop prep. I was gifted 2 embroidered leaves from my friend & colleague Abby aka Folktale Fibres, along with some felty baubles.. they inspired this botanical boucle-esque yarn.. it was my first attempt to add just a section of 3ply boucle into a yarn (boucle is a 3ply technique usually done the entire length of the skein).. it was totally fun & i LOVE the results.. you can see the shiny boucle-bamboo in this pic. off to catch up on some custom orders *-* spinlove Michelle
Spinning an Alpaca Gradient Yarn Free Knitting Pattern for Handspun Yarn This project was spun on the Schacht Sidekick Spinning Wheel Sometimes the fiber tells us what yarn it wants to make, and sometimes we plan a spin from start to finish. When some local alpaca fiber came my way, I was inspired b
As of today, the following information is as accurate as I can make it based on my 16 months of experience with the pin loom. Feel free to comment if you have other experiences or questions. While …
un·rav·el [uhn-rav-uhl] verb, un·rav·eled, un·rav·el·ing or ( especially British ) un·rav·elled, un·rav·el·ling. 1. to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.). My first attempt at unravelling a sweater and recycling some yarn! There are quite a few tutorials out there on the internet these days, and here is a summary of what I have learned about the process (in case you want to try one of your own!) The first step, of course, is to find a sweater (or two) to unravel. The main things to consider are: Weight: There are lots and lots of sweaters out there made from very fine yarns, which can be quite difficult to take apart. For my first attempt, I looked for worsted, and sport-weight yarns. Fiber content: I only wanted sweaters with natural fibers because (in my opinion) it is just not worth the time or money for acrylic, so be sure to read the tags. If there is a small percentage of nylon or acrylic, it will be less breakable and therefore easier to unravel, so a little man-made fiber content might even be preferable! Condition: It seems as if many wool sweaters end up in the thrift store because they were accidentally tossed in the washing machine, and a felted sweater will not unravel; an unfelted sweater will have a clear outline of each individual stitch, and you will be able to see through the fabric when it is stretched. Also, be on the lookout for stains or holes that might affect your finished yarn. Seams: To get long lengths of usable yarn, your sweater must have sewn or crocheted seams (rather than serged). The easiest sweaters to unravel have crocheted seams (you will see a small crochet chain up one side of the seam). I chose to start my un-ravelling adventure with a 100% wool, purple sweater, and a Fair Isle cotton/nylon/wool/angora blend in a beautiful red/orange color. First, I turned the purple sweater inside out, and looked for the chain stitch along the arm seams. What is a chain stitch, you ask? A chain stitch is the use of 1 or more continuous threads (no bobbin) to create a stitch. The chain stitch can be easily pulled out by pulling the right thread (like a potato bag). Taking apart good seams pictured above can be very fast and easy. If you start at the right end, undoing the seam is as easy as pulling on the yarn end - the seam comes apart like magic. After "unzipping" the arms, I did the armholes, and the neck band, which left me with four, separate pieces to start unraveling. To unravel the sleeve, start at the shoulder end and try and identify where the bind-off ended. You might have to make a couple of snips to get at a yarn end. When you find it, and start pulling, you will see the "live stitches" that every knitter can identify! At this point, I placed the yarn end in my ball winder, rolled the piece to unravel into a tube (so it could unwind more evenly) and started cranking away at my ball winder. It is very, very satisfying to see the piece unravel into lovely yarn right there in front of you! If you need more information about any of these steps, I found this blog post to be very helpful! I unraveled the red sweater in a similar manner, but it was a little more complicated because of the Fair Isle portions of the sweater. However, I was able to do both sweaters in a couple of hours. At this point, I was left with this: Now you will have several balls of yarn, and you are ready to turn them into hanks for washing and stretching. If you have a niddy noddy you are all set... but for the rest of us, a couple of chair backs work just fine. I count the number of times I wind the yarn around and multiply that number by the diameter of the chair backs to calculate my total yardage. At this point, you can tie the ends of your yarn in a figure eight to hold them, and then add several more figure eight ties around the hank to keep it from getting tangled. Now you will be left with several large, very kinky hanks of yarn that are ready to be washed and stretched! Fill a sink, tub, or large bowl with warm water and some wool wash or mild dish soap and stir. Gently push the yarn down into the soapy water (avoid using hot water and any agitation so that no felting will occur) and then let the yarn soak for at least 30 minutes. After soaking, rinse the yarn with room temperature water, gently squeezing out the excess water. You can then roll the yarn up in a towel and apply pressure to get out some more moisture, or use your salad spinner :). Extra kinky yarn needs to be stretched to help straighten it out. I hung my hanks up on plastic coat hangers with a "canned food" weight to help stretch them out as they dry. Once your yarn is completely dry, it is time to ball it back up by either placing it back on the chair backs to re-wind, or using your swift and ball winder. Since your recycled yarn does not have a ball band, make sure you label it with your fiber content from the garment label, and your calculated yardage (because you will not remember in 6 months.... trust me!!) In case you are wondering, the total yardage for the purple wool was about 1200 yards... not bad for $4.99! I also whipped up some of these yarn labels so I can keep all that pertinent information with my yarn.. feel free to use them for your own, non-commercial purposes :). Just click on the picture to download the .pdf file from DropBox.
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Looking at the weaving yarn sizes can feel like you are reading a secret code. What do those numbers actually mean? Why does it matter anyway?
Spinning an Alpaca Gradient Yarn Free Knitting Pattern for Handspun Yarn This project was spun on the Schacht Sidekick Spinning Wheel Sometimes the fiber tells us what yarn it wants to make, and sometimes we plan a spin from start to finish. When some local alpaca fiber came my way, I was inspired b
I've recently had a few questions about thread plying, spinning Racing Stripes and Auto Wrapping. Here's a quick spin through these fun spinning-with-thread yarns. Using thread is one of my favorite ways to give a yarn, especially a yarn spun from a textured batt a little sparkle and a little stabi
So, I promised a tutorial on how to spin a super bulky single thick and thin yarn…. It’s in the post – promise! What happened? Well, I’ve been washing wool, fleeces and fle…
If you can't tell, I might have a *slight* obsession with yarn pom poms - I want to pom pom ALL. THE. THINGS!! Today I'm to tackle this fun Pom Pom Craft Project: Such a
Hi everone! I am fine, I took a break for a few months with covid 19 peaking, the usa election and and the capitol insurgence ,the weird holidays, I just kind of wanted to crawl under my bed till calmness prevailed ! but all along I was spinning weaving and sewing this will be my first of two catch up blogs! I would like to start off with a review of the SPINOLUTION PAULYWINDER ! what is the paulywinder? well if you spinners know about the woolee winder company it is similar but this one is totally engineered by Mike Pauly the founder and CEO of spinolution. the only thing it has in comon with the wooleewinder is the fact you do not have to stop and move your yarn manualy over hooks to distribute it on the bobbin. the spinolution paulywinder is AMAZING. The paulywinder does not have intricate gears or special bobbins needed with cogs, nor does it have that tug that wooleewinders have. instead you use your regualr spinolution standard bobbins, or the 3 d printed ones . The filling up is automatic but it is gentle natural draw in , it also handels fatter singles like in the photos i spun a thick thin yarn . i put the paulywinder on my 16 oz bullfrog flyer. it was great BUT i realized that with the spinolution models that you can not change heads with ie ( the bees, bull frog) i could only spin with the pauly winder not change it out to spin other thickness of yarns! so I took it off my bullfrog and put it on the firefly 16 oz head instead, because that flyer is interchangable. I put my spinolution skein winder accessory on the built in bull frog lazy kate and skeined off my yarn. my merino silk singles and plied coils… clearly I am in love with the paulywinder! here is the extender for the firefly so you can use the paulywinder easily now my paulywinder is on firefly but you can change out heads( flyers) on ther spinolution monarch, and echo models as well and I am happily spinng away in bliss! the bobbin filling has hills and valleys along the way but no worries , it is more organic but it eventually evens out to a nicely wound bobbin . once you adjust ther fulcrum screw ( mine need the slightest small turn ) you are good to sit back and spin and spin and spin and spin i had 8 oz spun in no time! I switched out my 16oz head on my firefly with the paulywinder on it for the 32 oz , and plied this silk Blend singles into art yarn…( still in progress) catch me destressing with my spinolution wheels weekly! spinolution firefly here see all the spinolution wheels and accessories here spinolution listings in my ETSY shop but if you need more info or want to buy email me my email peace through fibers Jill Nickolene Sanders WWW.SAORISANTACRUZ.COM
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Contrasting traditional techniques such as macrame and knot-making with unconventional materials, this project explores architectural forms and optical illusions.
If you clean raw fleece or fiber you need Power Scour in your life today! Forget the crazy soak and rinse and repeat ad nauseam cycle your old soap required. Unicorn is here is speed up and revolutionize the process!
Silk hankies, what to do with them?! This was a question I was asking myself back in 2013 when I first started wrapping textured yarns up in silk. My first experiments involved some eyelash yarn an…
When I first decided to teach myself to spin, keeping notes seemed like a good idea. As soon as there was actual yarn coming off the spindle, which took longer than expected, I made a little notebook from index cards bound together with a rubber band and a paper clip. After each little skein w
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Learning how to weave more than 1 color is a basic tapestry weaving skill. Learn the meet and separate technique for discontinuous weft.
