Oct 25, 2025
Currently on the rigid heddle loom:
Scarf!
(60/22/18 wool/polyamide/silk)
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Currently on the rigid heddle loom:
Scarf!
(60/22/18 wool/polyamide/silk)
Currently on the rigid heddle loom:
Scarf!
(60/22/18 wool/polyamide/silk)
Dye experiment! My new texelaar (texel) fleece: scoured and rinced twice each, then dyed with acid dyes (about 22grams of wool for each colour).
It's really cool to see how the dyes split on the fleece! The purple, orange, and red are so splotched, it will be very fun to see how it cards up.
Planning to split each colour in two and card two batts together with some white, then spin singles in opposite twists and weave with those!
Harvested my flax yesterday!
The person I learned how to process flax from said to leave it until it was quite brown and most of the seedpods were ripe (about 6-7 weeks after it flowered) but I have seen other people harvesting much earlier (when it is still green, 2-3 weeks after flowering).
I've heard that that might make better fiber, so I can try that next year if I want to process flax again. That way, I can compare.
For now, I have tied everything into bundles (a good handfull each) so I can start water retting them. Hoping to spin and weave with this in the future!
Let's play a game of "How full can I get this bobbin?"
Pride month spin! (Merino and silk, irl way shinier and more nuanced colours than in the picture!)
My new spindle from Studio Spintol finally arrived (a few weeks ago at this point) and it is everything I dreamed of!
Cherry wood, 18.2 grams.
Bonus pic
When mum insists on taking a picture with your younger sibling:
(almost 10 grams of merino vs about 5 grams of cotton)
I have been spinning on my new (to me) EEW nano 2.0 for a good couple hours now, and I'm really liking it!
There is a precarious balance you have to find between speed and brake tension, but it's lovely to spin really thin with because of that. The finished bobbin to the right has about 10 grams on it.
I have tried plying on it once. Maybe it's a me problem, but because you can't put the brake tension too high (the motor doesn't like it), it doesn't pull the yarn in as fast as a regular wheel. With plying this makes for a very sparsely filled bobbin; with 20 grams it was full, but very squishy. I believe you should be able to fit 25-30 grams on a bobbin at least. The plied yarn was 20grams/111 meters, or about 550meters per 100 grams. I could definitely go thinner than that though if I wanted to on this EEW nano.
But other than that,, a very positive experience! On a normal spinning wheel I very quickly get pain in my hands/back/neck while spinning, but not with this wheel. I can put it all around me which allows me to spin "sideways" as well, which changes the motion my hands make while spinning. And it allows me to spin sitting with my legs up/head supported, which prevents back and neck pain. A plus for hypermobility!