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**Sand Hill Thicket** @SandHillThicket@med-mastodon.com · 2h *

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Sand Hill Thicket @SandHillThicket@med-mastodon.com

I made these.

Two matching hanks of hand spun yarn; barber pole robin-egg blue Gulf Coast and grey/brown Blue-Faced Leicester.

#HandSpinning #Wool #GulfCoast

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**dan** @billgoats@bitbang.social · 3d

dan @billgoats@bitbang.social

RGB #HandSpinning

A knitted swatch of red green and blue yarn

**dan** @billgoats@bitbang.social · 3d

dan @billgoats@bitbang.social

Now in Technicolor!
#HandSpinning

**Vereesh** @temporal_spider@masto.ai · 5d

Vereesh @temporal_spider@masto.ai

I made some rolags on my blending board, just a bunch of stuff I had small amounts of. There's some merino, mohair, peduncle silk, and some Wool of the Andes. It will be one of a kind, for better or worse. I think I'll call it Pennies. #handspinning #handmade #handcraft #wool #fiberarts

A basket sits on a wooden table near a curtained window. The basket is full of rolags, which are long, sausage shaped rolls of multi-colored wool, like very tight hair curls. The rolags are orange, brown, and grey.

The wool in the rolags is being spun on my electric spinner. The bobbin is about one quarter full, and the colors are all visible, but more blended.

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**Elizenery** @lisettedeboer@mastodon.social · 6d

Elizenery @lisettedeboer@mastodon.social

Finished the repair ply... Now it just needs to dry. The setup with the swift worked, but it's just a whole lot of treadling.
#HandSpinning

Hank of wet 3-ply yarn in brown and cream shades. It is tied together with four evenly spaced green eight-knots of yarn.

**Sand Hill Thicket** @SandHillThicket@med-mastodon.com · 6d

Sand Hill Thicket @SandHillThicket@med-mastodon.com

Here is Hawk's #fleece. This is my favorite fleece! It's EPIC! It is like a lion's mane.

It's a huge fleece, very curly and crimpy, with a long staple, and next-to-skin soft. I just drool everytime I shear Hawk. I think his #wool is MARVELOUS. I could keep taking more and more pics of it; I'm literally obsessed.

We are done #shearing, but I have three more fleeces to skirt. To be continued...

#SheepOfMastodon #GulfCoast #FiberArts #HandSpinning

@fiberarts

A collage of pics of Hawk's fleece with some close-up shots showing the wool locks.

Another collage of pics of Hawk's fleece with some close-up shots showing the wool locks.

The rams in full wool in a snowdrift, with Hawk in the lead looking squinty eyed in the sun.

**Sand Hill Thicket** @SandHillThicket@med-mastodon.com · 6d

Sand Hill Thicket @SandHillThicket@med-mastodon.com

Heron's #fleece is off.

A collage of pics of a fleece off our primary ram, Heron. This fleece is very soft, long staple, with good crimp.

#shearing #SheepOfMastodon #GulfCoast

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**deponentVMB** @deponentVMB@social.vmbrasseur.com · May 15

May 15

deponentVMB @deponentVMB@social.vmbrasseur.com

I think the spinning intern needs more training on how to use the swift. #spinning #HandSpinning #CatsOfMastodon

A wire yarn swift is set up on a light coloured wood coffee table. It looks a lot like the wire internals of an umbrella. An orange cat with white toes is climbing up through the swift, using the dark brown yarn it contains to prop himself up. Swifts need to spin in order to work, and this one can’t spin with this damn cat in it.

**Axiom the Doge** @Axiom@fiberart.club · May 15

May 15

Axiom the Doge @Axiom@fiberart.club

My summer job is bringing in some new followers, so it's time for a new #introduction post.

Hello! I'm Axiom / Jay, and I currently work as an intern at an #OrganicFarm! I've been passionate about #farming and #agriculture my whole life, and I anticipate the bulk of my posts will be work-related until I go back to my day job in August.

I also post a lot about my #FiberArt projects (#knitting #HandSpinning) and general #homestead activities (#gardening #AngoraRabbits #GrowYourOwn)

**Elizenery** @lisettedeboer@mastodon.social · May 14

May 14

Elizenery @lisettedeboer@mastodon.social

Oh it's #WIPWednesday again. Not so much progress and a bit of everything. Repair plying to do on a very large amount of yarn . But I look forward to a new spin and more Gotland dyeing. #knitting #HandSpinning

Sock with lime color heel tab and heel en stripey foot in pinks and blues. It's knitted cuff down and approaching the start of the toe.

Sweater sleeve with a cable panel on bamboo needles lying on a white table with some notes to keep track of the knitting.

Tiny bit of singles on a wooden bobbin. The yarn has a deep burgundy color that is far more interesting in real life.

Swift with crinkled yarn and an Ashford Kiwi spinning wheel in the background with the yarn going into the orifice.

**fibers.and.crafts** @fibersandcrafts@pixelfed.art · May 14

May 14

fibers.and.crafts @fibersandcrafts@pixelfed.art

Last month I bought some handdyed sheepy fluff on a local wool festival with the intention to spin it during Tour de Fleece. Well, I couldn't resist to "spin only a few meters" and here we are... It is the first yarn that I spun woolen (with long drawing) and it was so much fun - dopamine spinning.

#handspinning #spinning #spinningwheel #woolenspun

Four hanks of hand-spun yarn lie on a sheepskin. The two strands on the left are predominantly bluish-green with black and white (salt&vinegar) and purple sections. The two strands on the right are a more uniform bluish-green colour.

Close up of the bobbin on my spinning wheel. There's a single thread in blue/green/teal tones on it. Next to it, there's a cup of coffee.

#woolenspun

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**Elizenery** @lisettedeboer@mastodon.social · May 12

May 12

Elizenery @lisettedeboer@mastodon.social

Woops, this looks weird. Did I ply in the wrong direction? Let's see after a bath. And otherwise I know what I'll do next weekend... #HandSpinning #yarn

Thick loop of very curly energized thin yarn.

**Elizenery** @lisettedeboer@mastodon.social · May 12

May 12

Elizenery @lisettedeboer@mastodon.social

474 rounds on the niddy noddy over lunch break. Last batch of the super soft thin yarn almost finished. Whew. #HandSpinning

Light wooden niddy noddy with a whole about 190 grams of very thin 3-ply yarn on it. It's on a slightly darker rough wooden table with patches of white paint.

**consumableJoy** @consumablejoy@wandering.shop · May 10

May 10

consumableJoy @consumablejoy@wandering.shop

I’ve organized and begun spinning on my Bacon Burner batt. I’m using my spindles from Woodland Handcrafts which is my first time really doing a project on them. Currently using the little owl which is so cute and of course also spins well. This project will take a while but it’s only 2 oz of fiber so maybe won’t take as long as I fear. #HandSpinning #fiber #FiberArts #spinning #supportedspindle

Top and center: batt of fiber in colors ranging from purplish brown to orange. Lower left, 3 supported spindles - one teacup style, one morel mushroom, one owl. Owl spindle has in progress cop. Also shown spinning bowl

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**Paws 2 Spindle** @Paws2Spindle@sunny.garden · May 10 *

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Paws 2 Spindle @Paws2Spindle@sunny.garden

My other purchase is a bag of naturally dark black alpaca roving.

I've been wanting to try blending the husky fur with something a bit longer and more likely to hold together. I'm going to play around with proportions, but I think this would look really sharp as a dark core of black alpaca surrounded by a fuzzy white husky halo.

Of course I'll post photos when I get to this project!

Ribbony blobs of shiny black fiber emerge from a plastic bag. A tag reads 100% Alpaca, 4 oz, $24.00. It sits next to a Turkish spindle holding a fine white single spun from a cloud of husky fiber. There's also a brochure for the Shepherd's Harvest Sheep and Wool festival, and a bit of a white husky yarn scarf in the background.

#Spinning #HandSpinning #Alpaca

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**deponentVMB** @deponentVMB@social.vmbrasseur.com · May 10

May 10

deponentVMB @deponentVMB@social.vmbrasseur.com

Fresh yarn, washed and hanging to dry.

• 4 skeins 4-ply black Shetland, 1 small skein each 3- and 2-ply Shetland as well.
• 2 skeins 3-ply red Targhee, 1 small skein 3-ply Targhee/Merino (2 red Targhee, 1 pink Merino)

Skeins of yarn, hanging loose from a walking stick over the top of a bathtub shower. The three closest the viewers are red or red-pink, followed by six black (very dark brown) ones. Some of the black ones are quite large, looking all squishy. Don’t squish them, though, unless you want to get wet.

#spinning #HandSpinning

**consumableJoy** @consumablejoy@wandering.shop · May 9

May 9

consumableJoy @consumablejoy@wandering.shop

My poll ended up on Bacon Burner by one vote! I’m happy with that because I realized I already have a WIP in color very close to the Jellyfish Ride colorway to be followed with something close to paper airplane skies! So Calcifer it is. I’m thinking I will spin from one end of the batt to the other and then chain ply to maintain the gradient. We will see. With 2 (or 3) other spinning WIPs at the same time no one project is making much progress. #HandSpinning #FiberArts https://wandering.shop/@consumablejoy/114474365156433006

The Wandering ShopconsumableJoy (@consumablejoy@wandering.shop)I got these batts from Fossil Fibers - pics to follow in the thread. I am thinking of spinning them on supported spindle. They are all Studio Ghibli themed. Which one should I start with? @fiberarts@a.gup.pe #fiber #fiberarts #spinning #handspinning (1/2) [ ] Bacon Burner - Calcifer (purple/orange) [ ] Ponyo’s Jellyfish Ride (blue/turqoise/pink) [ ] Paper Airplane Skies - the Wind Rises (sky shades)

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**Sand Hill Thicket** @SandHillThicket@med-mastodon.com · May 9

May 9

Sand Hill Thicket @SandHillThicket@med-mastodon.com

More #fleece coming off the #SheepOfMastodon today! #Wool #FiberArts
#HandSpinning #Shearing #GulfCoast

A collage of pics of a very fine and crimpy white fleece from a very small ewe named Clove.

A collage of pics of a fluffier sheep called Gardenia. This fleece would be good for carding due to a shorter staple length.

**deponentVMB** @deponentVMB@social.vmbrasseur.com · May 9

May 9

deponentVMB @deponentVMB@social.vmbrasseur.com

Today I skeined up a literal bucketload of freshly plied yarn, mostly 4-ply black Shetland, but also some red Targhee at the bottom of the pail.

It's all a bit over-twisted on the ply, but should be entirely fine after wash/dry. Really pleased with how it all turned out and am looking forward to the black & grey Shetland sweater that's in my future.