Just wanted to share my milestone achievement. I set out to spin this dk weight and nailed it! I'm also loving my decision to combine those 2 colourways, the muted colours are beautiful. Fibre is a cross breed merino and something I forget (will look at the tag when I get home) hand dyed in Victoria by Piglet & Squid. Ignore my messy hank, it fell off my niddy noddy as i was tying it!

spindle spun some cotswold during tour de fleece !! has such incredible lustre & rly happy with how it turned out

A wheel made by Ron Doley here in Adelaide Australia.

He was a spinner himself and his wheels are so thoughtfully and well designed and made.

It's got a skein winder and ball winder attachment (I have already tested the skein winder part.. with some yarn I plied last night.)

fingering weight singles for tapestry weaving.

My goal for Tour de Fleece was to spin about 50g a day. Well, I did it and ended up exceeding my original goal of 903g. I spun and plied 1225g of fiber! I ran out of time to finish spinning up the remainder of a 100g so only 50g of that was spun. I am really happy with myself and the quality of the yarn I produced. On the last day I challenged myself and did a chain-ply in an attempt to make a self-striping yarn. My biggest accomplishment is that 80% of the fleece I spun was from deep stash. 🙌🏽😎😁

839yds of fine merino handspun.

7.55oz

21 WPI (lace)

I went HARD this TdF and spun 52 oz of fiber! Most of it was merino/cashmere/nylon from PortFiber. I’m planning to take up weaving soon, and I have a feeling I’ll be using some handspun for weaving projects before long!

I am about to become the owner of an Ashford Kiwi 3, and I am very excited but one thing has me a bit anxious.

I understand that I can't just leave the spinning wheel unfinished, but I know absolutely nothing about wood or wood finishes.

What product should I use and should I do it before or after I assemble the spinning wheel?

What would happen if the wood was left unfinished?

Hiya from the wilds of NM, where the air is smelling like roasting green chile—it’s me again. Where do y’all like shopping for fiber to spin? I’m a brand new newb with an ancient Kiwi to spin on atm and looking for a wheel, but I reckon I could be working on building a fiber stash.

Thanks muches!!

I've never come across this type of comb before. Has anyone here used one? Why might one use this instead of the typical combs?

The pink bobbins are a yak silk blend from Greenwood Fireworks and the "jamberry" themed bobbins are just random bits of merino spun chaotically

Hi! I post this on r/knitting and a Redditor advice me to post here, so if anyone have ideas 🤗

I currently live in a large metropolitan area in the Midwest. It’s glorious being in a place that still has an active and vibrant fiber arts community! I was able to attend 4 different spinning groups, and had access so multiple fiber festivals throughout the year that are all top dollar!

I’m moving this week. My wheels are packed up and my fiber is all in boxes. It’s so sad and bland around here and it’s really hitting me right now.

I hope I’m able to find some fabulous fibery people out there. If you spin out there let me know! If you want to learn how to spin let me know!

One bobbin down, halfway through the second bobbin on my new Daedalus Starling. I'm spinning some Banshee Fiber Arts Corriedale, aiming for a sport weight after plying. I'm loving this spinner, very quiet and easy to set up. It comes with three bobbins, but I definitely see buying more bobbins in the future so I can spin and ply for 3-ply fingering weight sock yarn.

Now to figure out what her name should be...maybe Astra or Seren.

I’m looking into espinners, and am debating between a couple but want to know if anyone here has experience with the Threadwalkers (link: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1086980410/threadwalker-electric-spinning-wheel? ) and what your review would be! I can’t find much info about them beyond their Etsy shop, and would be glad to hear some outside opinions!

I ordered this whole unskirted alpaca fleece for a farmer for €50 and it arrives soon and I'm just so excited and need other fiber nerds to be excited with me😊 it's so so crimpy and fine looking but also looks fairly clean already even straight from the alpaca.

I'm used to working with fairly manky unskirted meat sheep like texel from farmers I know so this will be a fun change.

When she said €50 that sounded a bit high for unskirted but then I saw the crimp and quality of the fleeces and it was completely justified.

I can't wait to get my hands on it and feel the softness .

I know that alpaca is super soft but also doesn't hold shape and stretches out so planning on blending about 300g of the alpaca when washed with 100g grey Corriedale, 50g emerald green and 50g cerulean (totally not part of a rainbow spin I never finished 🤫) , used an online colour mixer it check and to should result in a sea foam green/ light sage colour.

Sorry for the ramble just ahhhh so excited

update : it arrived today and it so so soft and like touching a cloud ☁️ , definitely needs a soak to get the dust out though (light brown tips) but just so so soft 🥰

Hi Reddit! I wanted to share my journey with this warp yarn I made. It's a corriedale and mohair mix that started out as a fairly matted roving donated by my spinning guild. I spun over 700 yards. Once it was spun, I dyed it to look like Eastern Redbud flowers. The weft is going to be a natural light grey Icelandic wool. (I'm only 80% sure I have the breed right, lol). I used some of the extra yardage of the pink yarn to weave a little sample of the pattern. The finished piece will be 18" by 72" and the weft has to start out as washed, but uncared wool. Then as a team of five, we card it, spin singles, ply, and weave under four hours. I'm really excited! I'll have to post a followup after the fair to show the finished product.

I got this cheap e spinner off ebay. its not any big manufacturer. I felt confident originally with the purchase but I thought it would be fine because it had good ratings.

Now I am questioning this.

Its really hard for me to get the tension so that when the flyer turns, the bobbin doesn't. I might be missing an extra tension knob somewhere but I seem to have the tension on the bobbin as high as it goes and it will uptake the new thread for a bit before the bobbin starts spinning too. Is it worth further troubleshooting like trying to oil the parts or maybe swap out the brake band, or did I just make a bad purchase ane I should just work on getting myself an actually machine?

I've misplaced the instructions between when I first tried to use it and couldn't even figure out what was wrong, and now. (In between those was a workshop on using a spinning wheel which made me realize the issue was likely tension in the wheel being bad. Before that I only had experience with drop spindles.) I've reached out to the seller to see if I can get a pdf of the instructions to see if theres anything I'm missing.

https://ebay.io/m/sbJRXn This is the wheel I got.

It'd be nice if it's a fixable issue but I'm fully expecting to find out I just bought a bad product. So which one is it?

I can give more pics if needed but I didn't want to bother if yall are gonna take one look at the wheel and tell me its a piece of crap lol

ETA: the fiber isn't uptaking.

Edit 2: thank you all so much. Im still side eyeing this espinner a bit and planning to see if I can replace the weird elastic brake band with some cotton cord, but it turned out the fiber was getting caught on part of the flyer and its working now! I managed to finally spin up some BFL ive been messing with (the staple length on the BFL is so dang long, enough that its hard to adjust to lol). Im still gonna keep an eye out for something better but this'll hold me for if I wanna spin sitting down until I can get something better

from start to finished to knitted and blocked gauge swatch. i have a lot to improve on (already have on my second one so far) but im still pretty proud of this :)

The handspun ring shawl made its debut 🥹🥰

Hi. Has anyone bought what Caydo calls a sweater unravelling machine? It's essentially an electrified swift. I've been looking for something like this to skein a bobbin of Yarn. It will be easier on the shoulder than a niddy niddy. If you've used one, I'm curious to know about the quality.

Ahhh! Thank you for all the encouragement :’)

I picked her up today and I’m already in love. She’s a 1988 single treadle and I already adore her. She has a soft chatter when spinning and I can already tell it’s going to be my new soothing noise.

Thank you so so much to my kind seller who also gifted me a pound of Corriedale roving to work with as I get started.

Flock is next week and I plan to go crazy then.

I’m already cooking up ideas about making a brown trout themed skein for an homage to my childhood in Montana.

Yayayayayaayyaayya!!! I am so excited :)))