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@mouseradish
so it turns out grief & stress are great for spinning through so. tour de fleece day ??: emotional support romney
all of these are from the same fleece but the bottom one is deliberately spun thicker, 3ply rather than 2, & dyed with avocado pits. it's for knitting while the top two will (hopefully) be for weaving. I don't know if you can tell from this picture but they have this lovely sheen to them. I haven't finished these yet so we'll see if it sticks .... i hope it does.
my tour de fleece & also just like life in general have been derailed by the death of my most beloved creature and friend. i don't know who i am without her.
tour de fleece uh. day 7? yes I am definitely spinning every day yes 100% absolutely and this isn't from several weeks ago!!!!!!
this was a mystery gallon bag of wool i got at a thrift store for a few bucks that I didn't process at all and just spun straight whenever I wanted to spin something, didnt think much about it all. the end product is a little itchy & there's a bit of vm in there but it's soooo squishy. honestly pretty lovely for the lack of thought involved
tour de fleece day 2 ..... I had such a wonderful spinning day yesterday that I decided I needed to have a bad day today. this is cat hair yarn. nightmare all around. can't wait to get back to spinning a staple of more than 1 inch
today reading wildwood (to prepare for the movie in october) & one day everyone will have always been against this
when I first learned to spin I had a chopstick, CD, paperclip, duct tape, my cat, and a dream. I learned to spin from stubbornly park-and-drafting with cat hair. enough that all my friends and coworkers started gifting me the brushed fur bits from their cats. this particular yarn is a few years' worth of one particular friend bringing questionable little baggies through TSA when she comes to visit. this is the first time I've tried cat again since getting more experience with sheep wool & having a wheel .... baffling to me now that this is how I learned the basics of spinning. truly the fibercraft hubris is limitless
tour de fleece day 2 ..... I had such a wonderful spinning day yesterday that I decided I needed to have a bad day today. this is cat hair yarn. nightmare all around. can't wait to get back to spinning a staple of more than 1 inch
today reading wildwood (to prepare for the movie in october) & one day everyone will have always been against this
tour de fleece day 1 ... a lovely little day off for me so ive spent it spinning & reading the lost men & watching khensani mohlatlole
this is my first time spinning combed sliver top and it drafts soooo smoothly. i don't usually try to spin so finely because im a slow knitter at the best of times but I'm imagining a nice fine, strong 2ply to use as backstrap warp that won't disintegrate from being string heddled
ok I figured out my 3d printed combs and oooooh my god. it's so great I love combing which is VERY good because I still have my oft-mentioned ~20 lbs of romney. I got through a decent chunk of it today (by which I mean like .... maybe 1/10 of one fleece) although that was mostly by virtue of my having fucked up scouring that chunk and it being too felted / full of second cuts to be worth spinning. I like combing because if I clamp the stationary comb to my drafting table then I can do big arm movements rather than smaller wrist movements -- much better for my particular joint troubles. the downside of this is I'm standing the whole time, and my feet already throb pretty much 24/7 from how much I stand at work. sitting doesn't let me do quite as large of arm movements though, and I keep stabbing my knee with the moving comb (<- this is fine, I have dull nails in it and not anything actually sharp). maybe a taller stool would help?
seeing folks do tour de fleece prep has me motivated to do more wool processing as well & as I have about 20 lbs of romney it seemed like a good chance to try out some new methods --
I've been using dog slicker brushes to do a kind of flick, but it's hard on my wrists and takes uhhh fucking forever. I've been working on a pound of jacob fleece for like, months.
as luck would have it, I found a pair of hand cards at my local thrift store this week. I don't know that hand carding is going to be the best method for me (see: wrists) but if nothing else I figure they might be better for flicking than my dog brush that's starting to fall apart. they're like .... really old tho. some quick searching suggests at least a hundred years old. I ordered some replacement carding cloth and I do think I'll go ahead with it and use them but I can't help but feel a little weird about dismantling 100 year old cards. the leather backing is fully disintegrating though and I figure these things are meant to be used.
the thrift store cashier said WOAH what kind of medieval torture device is that?? -- vs. -- the carding cloth really does need replaced but in testing them out a little they leave this sweet woody smell on all the wool and it's genuinely so lovely. I forget sometimes that this is a niche hobby & not everyone would be excited about sweet smelling 100 year old wood full of wire.
anyway --
when I bought my wheel last year the seller also gave me a big thing of various odds and ends (she decided she didn't like spinning) & included in that was a set of 3D printed combs. they needed more nails in them to actually be useful so I dropped by the hardware store today to get some of those. (this cashier said "are you okay, dear?" and I do NOT know why because I thought I was being normal.) I've never used combs before and I do think the process is/will be better for my joints but I am definitely feeling the learning curve of a new skill + subpar tools. the people on youtube make it look so easy !! I will get the hang of it eventually though I'm sure.
5/16/2026
i am here to shout the praises of emily tesh's the incandescent to the world entire, an absolutely joyous masterpiece of a book from start to finish, 1000/10 no notes please read it immediately
some things ive been working on .... I'm slowly cleaning the two romney fleeces I got from the Fleece Man in batches (small apartment fleece washing especially in a wet winter is a whoooole task) but also processing the fleece I was given when I bought my spinning wheel
it started out pretty vm-y and was the first fleece I ever got fully raw, no skirting etc. if I cleaned it now I think I'd have kept a lot more of it than i did but it had definitely been sitting unwashed in a garage for a few years and had all kinds of bugs and things.
I'm using the no fleece left behind method to prep it (which I discovered via @milkweedman thank you!!!!!). unfortunately while it's very effective it's not the kindest on my joints so I'm doing just a bit at a time.
it cleans up into this lovely fluff with a fine crimp. not the longest staple in the world but it'll definitely spin nicely. absolutely no clue what breed or anything it is, i was just handed a garbage bag with no further information.
it's my first white fleece and there's a good amount of it so I'm thinking maybe I'll dye some of it? I have a big bag of avocado pits that's been living in a drawer of my fridge for years now.
on my wheel right now I'm working through a huge coil of top I picked up secondhand for like $5 before I really knew what i was doing. it's sooo much fiber and a really wonderful warm brown and I'm having so much fun with it
finished spinning these up a bit ago, by the by. the brown is a lovely plush soft 3-ply that I absolutely underplied and I've decided I'm not worried about. the (off-)white I liked less and less the more I worked with it ... I ended up splitting it into one 3-ply skein and one 2-ply. mostly because I have a torrid love affair with 3-ply but think I probably need to branch out so I'm Trying It
starstruck (soft)
it's technically above my pay grade to do reader's advisory but the other day someone came in and said I haven't read anything in a long while but I like fantasy can you help me find something and you could probably see my tail wagging and antennae perked up like. make my dreams come true why don't you
BIG news from the radish household. bought 2 whole romney fleeces (~10 lbs each) off a local farmer who put a flyer with a phone number on a community bulletin board
y'all I started processing this fleece and I finally Understand ....... evidently every other fleece ive tackled has been super tacky and full of vm and I didn't have any better point of comparison until now .... I can just flick the ends of the locks open and it emerges as glorious soft fluff .... a matter of seconds .... 6+ inch staple ........... I'm in love
my wool detector
and of course here is the mymble in her completed sweater
ive decided that the library scanner ass quality is part of the experience
