Category Archives: Spinning

Fibre Haul: East Anglia Yarn Festival 2024

I had a lovely time yesterday at East Anglia Yarn Festival 2024 chatting wool with lovely people and feeling very inspired. Since I have a lot of wool waiting to be spun (and quite a lot of handspun waiting to be used), I was on the lookout for patterns and haberdashery that I could useContinue reading “Fibre Haul: East Anglia Yarn Festival 2024”

DIY Wool Combs

There are several fleeces in my stash that I have put to the side as the fibres are too long to successfully card. There are two methods generally used to prepare wool depending on the staple length of the fleece, namely carding for short staples and combing for long staples. Some fleeces can be cardedContinue reading “DIY Wool Combs”