#handspunsource

[guloguloenthusiast]

Samples from the 8lbs of raw wool I received in the mail this week! Eeeeek so excited. Romney crossbreed fleeces from Lopez Island, WA.

[handspunyarnsource]

HELLO FIBER NERDS 🐑🎉✨ I have a request! I want to put together a list of resources for the spinning community in my pinned post—think tutorials, blogs, your favorite spinning related books, guides etc.— so please send me things you would want to see on this list!

I would also love to put together a list in my pinned post of our #spinblr community small businesses! So if you sell handmade spinning supplies (and want to be listed) please send me an ask from the blog you want listed with your shop link and a quick description of what you sell!

[cavedraconem]

A question for spinners: I'm spinning and plying on a spindle, and I have a problem when I've finished plying.

I've been over-plying slightly, because I know that soaking the wool afterwards tends to energise the singles a bit more. But as I wind the yarn off the spindle shaft, I'm finding that some of it is now under-plied, especially the stuff right in the centre of the cop. So I have to flip my spindle over and put some more S-twist into each length.

I'm pulling the yarn straight off the spindle (i.e. rolling it in my hand as if it were a bobbin, not spinning it off the top). And often I'm pulling it off straight after I've plied the whole lot, so it's only been on the shaft for 20 minutes tops. So where is this unauthorised untwist coming from? Is there something I should be doing differently?

[guloguloenthusiast]

six Shetland fleeces as seen from the underside and exterior of the coat! I got these at cost from one of the farmers last week when I helped out with shearing. I am so excited to work with this beautiful wool. coat types are variable but generally fine, woolly, longer staple with not a whole ton of hair in the fleece. for the non sheep reader- Shetland are famous for coming in a bazillion different natural colors and patterns. I am going to try to match these up to their traditional Norn language names for wool colors :-)

[guloguloenthusiast]

test spin from one of my Lopez romney cross fleeces. 2 ply VERY woollen spin from rolags. like seriously this shit it is 90% air. my boyfriends say my hands are sexy

[guloguloenthusiast]

Some photos from helping out at shearing day on a friend's farm in Alaska's mat-su valley. These are mostly (unregistered) pure Shetland, but a couple had some cape dorset and finn mixed in. This flock is more or less a hobby/labor of blood for the owner. The flock never gets worked with herding dogs and were pretty brave and curious, one wether even visited me repeatedly for ear scritches. Good number of rams, but most I got from them was stubborn-ness, nobody fighty/dangerous. We had about 30 head to get through and a professional shearer up from Oregon absolutely crushing at his craft, it was so cool to watch him work. I was wrangling up sheep to pass to the shearer- he went straight through all 30 with no breaks, takes him under three min per sheep. I'm hoping to get certified to shear commercially myself in 2027 once my back injury is healed better! Beautiful, fine fleeces, I went home with one in every color oops

[guloguloenthusiast]

3 ply DK weight yarn I spun the other week, hand dyed from some mystery white roving that came with my spinning wheel when I got it secondhand. Don’t mind the dog hairs

[handspunyarnsource]

Hello, I'm from Spain and I have a sideblog @motshila where I post about textiles (things I see on tumblr) and try to, but often forget, to showcase my own works in project in Spanish.

I spin my own wool (from my farm's sheep), that I wash and process myself.

I would also like it if you added these Spanish projects related to yarn. They're all artisan and they're all working to improve the quality of wool in Spain (mainly working with merino wool, which is autoctonous from Spain):

DehesaLana, in Extremadura. They work with local trashumant shepherds, paying a fair price for their wool. They make workshops to teach the work of wool. I learnt to spin here: https://dehesalana.com/

Wooldreamers, in Castilla La Mancha. It's a company that is looking to bring back to live the wool industry regionally and improve the quality of wool: https://wooldreamers.com/

Tintoremus, in Extremadura. They make natural indigo dyes from plants: https://tintoremus.com/

Tejo lo que hilo, a shop for materials and info about the overall processing of wool: https://tejoloquehilo.es/es/

I know there are projects to work with churra wool as well, and other similar minority breeds, but I don't remember them now.

¡Hola! Thank you for sending in the resources, I will get them added to the pinned post!!