February can be hard. Or at least, it’s a hard month here in Central Alberta. We are so close to spring, but it’s still cold. And we’ve been looking at snow for months. And for the love of god, can I just see a little green again?! You might have guessed, I’m not really a winter person. I grew up…
The shop is looking a little bare right now, isn’t it? Late winter is the time when the shop stock is the lowest – producers in Alberta will start shearing in March, and some of them all the way up until late May or June depending on everybody’s schedules. Wool (and especially local wool) is a seasonal product – much…
Measuring wraps per inch (WPI) and twists per inch (TPI) can be two of your absolute most useful measurements to take when spinning. I consider them a foundational measurement to take, especially if you’re a technical spinner and love to be able to reproduce a yarn. I’m going to talk a bit about what these numbers are – and specifically…
For my inaugural monthly Fibre Notes, January has been all about 51 Yarns (and playing catch up). 51 Yarns is a book written by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, and published by Ply magazine. Beginning in January of 2019 I began an epic spin-a-long with many other folks in the Wool ‘N Spinning community. At a rate of 2-3 new yarns a…