spinning yarns

She/her. Crafter, hyperfixater, folklore afficianado.

[spindleanddye]

check out Radish's fin regrowth from the day we brought him home to now (~1 month).

[drdaanvondutch]

steam notifications

your childhood best friend who moved four states away in 2014 is playing Terraria

coworker from your high school job is playing My Sexy Anime Neighbor from Sin University

ex friend who blocked you on everything but steam for some reason is playing The Binding of Isaac

the guy you genuinely thought of as a brother at one point but havent seen in years is playing Elden Ring

rando who was kind of nice to you in tf2 a decade ago is playing Team Fortress 2

your parents' neighbors' son is playing Resident Evil 4 (2023)

[spindleanddye]

He gets mad when I start spinning/moving my leg even though I was doing it when he hopped on my lap...

i love him so much tho 🥹

[spindleanddye]

printed interpretive id cards for my fish tank critters 🐟

[important-animal-images]

[iaxtm]

I knit this. It's Maria. Scan of a knit panel with Swarovski pendants.

[hauntedwhiskers]

Pondering my orbs.

[spindleanddye]

Got a package of Leia and Heathcliffe fuzz 🐑🐏

[spindleanddye]

BEHOLD

A CRITTER

[spindleanddye]

Energized, freshly spun single VS. Rested single:

This is why even though Im impatient Im trying to let my singles rest before plying 😅

[rosemaryrain364]

I do not understand what this means. Am I supposed to spin my single ply and then ignore it before plying it? How long? Is there a method to this? Help?

[spindleanddye]

Basically, yes, you spin the single then ignore it for a while. When you add twist to the fiber you're trapping rotational energy and it wants to go somewhere. Given time, the rotational energy will travel throughout the fibers trying to escape and even out through the length of the single, making it more slack and less prone to twist back up on itself while youre plying it. This way you dont have to fight the singles as much while plying

Ive seen different ideas about length of time, people say to let them rest 24 hours but honestly ive found theyre still pretty twitsty after a day, the brown single in my gif had been sitting for a couple weeks (because of laziness and adhd not because I was intentionally resting it that long). So if you can let them sit a couple days I think thats best...

The book Twist by Michelle Boyd is really great if you want to know more about this concept and the physics of spinning

[dumbquestionsihave]

People who do fiber arts as a hobby, if you were paid fairly, would you want to do it as a living?

Yes

No

I don't do fiber arts/results

Voting ended onFeb 28, 2025

[spindleanddye]

I would if I could make one small garment per year and sell it for 200k 😌

And spend the rest of my time leisurely spinning yarn at a non frantic pace

[spindleanddye]

The primal urge to eat the wool

Resist

RESIST

[spindleanddye]

Behold the orb

[henk-heijmans]

Herdwick sheep, crossing the beck - by James Rebanks (1974), English

[spindleanddye]

Take me there

[spindleanddye]

Worm bins worm bins worm bins worm bins worm bi

[spindleanddye]

Shiny 🤤

[spindleanddye]

How do other people make beautiful cylindrical rolags when mine always turn out like giant wooly caterpillars?? 😭