Yep, I’m at it again, and it’s going so well!
When I first started spinning up the Dorset wool, I was really fighting it too much. You’ve got to take a much gentler approach than I had realised. I sort of got this with the silk, but it’s making so much more sense with the roving [...]
On a whim I picked up the spare spindle I was sent and tried my hand at spinning my sample of silk roving.
OMG it’s wonderful! I’ve only tried my hand at spinning the Dorset wool so far, and whilst it’s coming along alright, I do feel awkward drafting it out to be thin enough [...]
It’s something I’ve been thinking about doing for a while, but I hope to start to learn this nifty craft in the near future. I’d like to learn to spin my own yarn.
There are a few tools one needs to spin their own yarn, and in today’s post I am going to list a few [...]