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down because the fiber is so fine combing would be perfection something i have to try and will certainly show once i do i ve been working through some bits of interesting fiber and have spun another skein of laceweight yarn this one is something red created by blending the lovely white cormo merino with hand dyed blue violet silk and a wine red shade of predyed superwash merino i blend by sight and handcard my rolags pictures coming soon of the actual plied yarn i ve got to skein and wash it first and we all know i m probably lost in the land of grey fleece tonight have an excellent day this entry was posted on june 16 2012 in combing wool cormo cross fleece cormo fleece cormo merino fleece fleece hand dyed hand spun handspun 2 ply laceweight mmfwool prepare spinning fleece process fleece project 365 raw cormo merino fleece raw fleece spinning spinning wheel wash fleece wool leave a comment what could be more fun than a fresh new fleece jun 15 i m a little behind here and haven t shown what i ve been up to lately my apologies my friends work and family and lets face it spinning have been getting in the way this is a beautiful fleece i purchased from mmfwool it s a cormo merino cross and just awesome to work with lovey crimp and length and so very very soft here s how it looks cleaned up it only took one wash two rinses and how it came out after combing i ve also been blending i treated myself to some excellent bits of fiber recently i ve made some really soft yarns in all shades of natural i ve just received another beautiful fleece a grey cormo cross which is actually even more beautiful and super fine i m washing this more carefully than i ve ever washed a fleece by the handfull almost in a wire basket in a lot of water simmering on the stove for 20 minutes then two rinses in super hot tap water with some boiling water mixed in absolutely no agitation the first batch came out excellently i m surrounded in fleecy goodness if you are interested please visit my little handspun yarn shop have an excellent day this entry was posted on june 15 2012 in camel cashmere combed top cormo cross fleece cormo fleece fiber prep fibre fleece llama merino mmfwool prepare spinning fleece process fleece project 365 raw cormo merino fleece raw fleece silk wash fleece yak leave a comment opening a little internet yarn shop jun 8 good morning it s true i ve finally decided and worked my way through most of the steps involved to sell my extra handspun yarn via webstore ok well i had decided but then discovered it is acceptable to sell handmade items via wordpress and so have instead set up a sister site handspunyarn wordpress com my little shop is called handspunyarn and will offer a variety of hand spun yarns from laceweight to bulky since i love a good fiber there will be lots of unique blends and all offerings are one of a kind all my my wool is prepared in an environmentally friendly way using safe dawn dish soap in most cases sometimes purex naturals vinegar and occasional hair conditioner in the rinse all dyes are food safe unless noted for example my superwash merino is predyed i prepare my fiber by hand carding combing and blending with other fibers a favorite of mine is silk sari and bombyx at the moment and i also blend with camel alpaca llama mohair angora yak and even cashmere and cotton on occasion for a great selection of unique knittable yarns please visit my shop have an excellent day lisa this entry was posted on june 8 2012 in baby knits buy hand spun laceweight buy hand spun ontario buy hand spun sock yarn buy hand spun wool yarn buy handspun buy handspun luxury fiber buy handspun ontario combed top combing wool cormo merino fleece design dk weight dye roving dye wool fiber prep fingering weight fleece hand spun hand spun wool for sale shop handspun 2 ply handspun sale handspun wool for sale handspun yarn shop and tagged buy hand spun yarn ontario buy handspun buy lace yarn buy silk yarn hand spun hand spun yarn shop handspun for sale in ontario handspun yarn sale luxury laceweight yarn leave a comment the beautiful birthday wool and other fun stuff mar 15 good morning yes again it s been a long time since i ve posted it feels like spring a beautiful beautiful day in ontario time to sort clean and catch up a couple of weeks ago i had another birthday and wanted to treat myself to something special i decided to make some pretty yarn inspired by amethyst a little bit of sparkle silk from india a little bit of shine and bold bright colour handdyed longwool and a fair share of beautiful bouncy softness gorgeous handdyed cormo merino cross recently purchased from mmfwool on ebay i highly recommend it in the dye pot the wools and some wilton s violet icing colour i blended the fibres with hand cards and voila the plan is to knit sabbatical by connie chang chinchio it should be awesome the wool from mmfwool is absolutely wonderful to work with nice crimp beautiful feel lovely length the kids have been enjoying march break i ve been working on some other wools as well black brown suffolk mix this is a three ply worsted dk weight which will eventually become a sweater finished pictures coming soon for this and some lovely wool silk mix yarn which i m just in the middle of finishing up have a fantastic day this entry was posted on march 15 2012 in 3 ply acid dye yarn connie chang chinchio cormo merino fleece dk weight fleece hand dye hand dyed ladies sweater lambswool merino mmfwool prepare spinning fleece raw fleece sabbatical silk singles spinning spinning wheel steeks 1 comment spinning and knitting and getting things done jan 6 happy new year i haven t been posting much i know but i have been getting things done which is very unlike me lately despite my sweater guilt caused by my recent inability to finish a full sized project s i fell in love with aidez a free berocco pattern which i found on ravelry since it requires bulky yarn i thought i would spin it of course i decided on the silver shetland fleece which i bought last year from devine west ranch lovely soft and i was sure there was enough fleece in the pillow case to make the required approx 800 metres i wanted since i am tall and always add a few inches in sleeves and body we all know about the best laid plans right yeah not nearly enough i ended up with approximately 400 metres of lovely soft spun in the grease bulky shetland yarn i washed the yarn within an inch of it s life to get out the lanolin and last bits of straw and then felted it slightly to make a really nice yarn then of course i queen of five or more projects on the go at the same time lol decided it was irresistable and knitted the gap tastic cowl with it a little bit wider than called for about 16 inches it s awesome and i finished it in only a day lol did i mention i finished it that s my worst habit lately not finishing things today s obsession is to spin up some suffolk fleece into a beautiful soft substitute since i still crave aidez lol it s coming out nicely this entry was posted on january 6 2012 in uncategorized and tagged berocco bulky yarn ravelry shetland yarn leave a comment my newest wheel a little bit of a project nov 7 isn t she sweet her wheel is on backwards in these pictures we purchased her from a local lady and she s missing her treadle flyer and bobbin altogether though she is in great shape check out her redness i think she was originally a red wheel with a black stripe on the wheel itself on the inner ring of the wheel her hub is solid with only a couple small cracks her wheel is slightly seperated but should come back together with a little coaxing oiling and perhaps the dryness of winter will help if nothing else does certainly my other wheels become quite loose during the winter season the leathers are perfect and the rear leather is amazing a solid chunk of leather hoping to spend some quality time with this lady in the upcoming week and build her a new treadle i ll need to find her a flyer or see if one of my other wheels has a flyer which would work as a loaner for now have a fantastic day this entry was posted on november 7 2011 in antique antique spinning wheel restore spinning wheel spinning spinning wheel spinning wheel leather bearings 3 comments aram i m so glad you re here oct 21 isn t she lovely i think so please welcome my newest wheel another little piece of canadian fibre art history she is marked aram paradis and was made in quebec in the latter half of the 1800 s to make her even more special we purchased her from her original family a lovely woman sold her to us after refusing to sell her to someone the seller suspected was an antique dealer because we would love her enough bless her she was right though you know i really will love her enough the wheel belonged to the seller s great grandmother who used to spin on her often i was even given a small amount of cotton sliver which was according to the seller her great grandmother s and what she would commonly spin on the wheel this same seller has another wheel her grandmother s which is a canadian production wheel in perfect pristine condition if she ever decides to sell it she s going to call us i ll let you know it seems she has been modified to work with a spindle somewhat like a great wheel what remained of this modification when we got her was the whorl but no spindle piece there was a second hole drilled perfectly might i add in her mother of all for the front maiden to facilitate the modification she looked like this first off she needed a coat of blo turpentine the poor baby was parched i moved the maiden back to the original hole and made her some new leathers made from an old full grain leather belt bonded together for the front maiden to create a sturdy bearing for the back leather i used a single layer of the same belt leather but since it s a bit on the stiff thick side soaked it in water for a couple hours and then clamped it to create a tight bearing my baby had no flyer bobbin whatsoever so i had to look around the house for something suitable thankfully the other wheels love to share my first attempt was an old lithuanian flyer that i have quite sadly since this is my only flyer without it s own wheel it was too short and had some issues with spinning properly sort of a dud second attempt was to try one of the cpw flyers a vezina in fact this was too long at this point it was very goldilocks and the three bears and just like in the story the third try fit just right i ended up fitting grandpa s flyer to her a very close to perfect fit in order for it to be a perfect fit would mean finding a flyer with about the same length of arms bobbin but with a longer tail end for the back bearing since i didn t have such a flyer i added a rabbit skin sleeve inside the back bearing to hold the shorter tail end grandpa says he s happy to have helped did i mention her perfect hub really awesome for her age she s stamped but this isn t the clearest picture and in her glory all glowing and spinning we had a few issues as we began spinning together i don t blame her really since she s not used to working after all these years her treadle kept trying to fall out of the leg nearest the spinner on the wheel end there was an old injury to that leg and a groove there so i used a bit of belt leather and made a split washer which i placed on the other end of the treadle bar at the leg closest to the mother of all this keeps the treadle from moving over as far as it wants and falling out on the wheel side also looks very appropriate which i like the cross piece that the treadle sits on is so old and brittle with an old staple repair underneath it did snap shortly into our spinning together but i didn t want to replace it with a new piece of wood cover your eyes now if you are particular about correct repairs my solution was to fit the shattered old wood back together underneath and then bond the whole thing back together with some 5 minute epoxy yes a woodworking sin but she looks original and that was what i wanted if this doesn t work in the long run i can always replace the cross bar i wasn t approaching the project in terms of resale value but from a working original wheel perspective finally my little helper has been by i ve convinced him that the winder is his wheel he has however gotten older and now he has noticed that his wheel doesn t seem to do it right lol he brought his bobbins over to my wheel to see what was going on last time he really is the cutest little guy plays piano when he s not spinning babies are awesome have a fantastic day this entry was posted on october 21 2011 in antique canadian spinning wheel antique spinning wheel aram aram paradis paradis project 365 quebec wheel restore spinning wheel spinning wheel spinning wheel leather bearings uncategorized 10 comments post navigation older posts search for webring navigation by webring this site is a member of webring visit here pages beaumonde inspired hat cable and lace 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