#fibreprep
Wilded out and flicked 200g of GotlandxCVM just to end up drumcarding it (I had good reason to tho) #fibreprep #handspinning
January 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I’ve made yet another new feed, this one’s for spinning and fibre prep!
Use #spinning #fibreprep #artyarn or #scouring to be collected by this feed.
Also picks up spinning related terms in your posts and alt texts!
Please enjoy ☺️
May 6, 2024 at 7:22 AM
I just need to ply (which is my least fave part 🥲)

#fibreprep #handspinning #handspunyarn #distaffspinning
February 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Asking those who have done it before me: how do you usually process Icelandic? I have the idea to make lopi, but am hesitant to use my 108 tpi drumcarder on loan

#fibreprep #handspinning #icelandic #icelandicwool
January 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Drumcarding tussah silk and polypore dyed merino and it is not going exactly as I hoped! Oh well, she looks wigged up tho #fibreprep #handspinning
January 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
January 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Anyone know any flax that I can get as someone who lives in “Canada”or the West Coast? Wanna do more flax spinning but wanna do it mindfully and support initiatives that want to boost flax around here

#fibreprep #handspinning #fibre #flax #linen
January 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#Fibreprep Hand combed tops are the bees knees! #fleecetoyarn #handspun
June 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Progress shot on my distaff! Such a fun spin 💕

#fibreprep #handspinning #distaff
February 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
AN UPDATE: I definitely did it!!! I’ll flick out the tips where there’s still some crusty VM, but more the most part, it was a fairly easy scour!! 😇 #fibreprep #handspinning #localwool
January 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Is it Day 4 of Tourdefleece? I spent most of yesterday combing and blending 200g of Corriedale locks, ready for my next bobbin but today I’m just meh; need a break. So far I’ve spun 400g of singles. #tourdefleece25 #handspun #fibreprep
July 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Sooooo…… We bought a fleece.
~4.4kg, very greasy, a bit dandruffy, a bit poo-ey Zwartbles.
This is our first time processing a fleece, wish us luck!

🧶 #HandSpinning #FibrePrep
August 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Just finished drum carding! It’s sooo soft and shiny ✨

#fibreprep #carding #batt
February 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Learning how to spin woolen tonight 😮‍💨 I get what the fuss is about, but I am spinning a very fine on accident yarn and while I trust the twist, I reflexively jerk when I let that front hand go. I also learned that I love rolags!

#handspinning #fibreprep
January 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Heavenly soft Corriedale fleece, this is much softer than usual. Batts are mixed with dyed locks of the same fleece. Love tweedy yarn. #handspun #fibreprep
July 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Back to it- here are some examples of yarn I’ve made from my scrappy batts.

Cotton adds tweediness
Locks make slubs/add texture
Yarn ends add texture depending on how carded they are
Silk threads add shine, colour pop and a scribbly effect

🧶 #HandSpinning #FibrePrep
June 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Here be the scoured fleece! One in sunlight, the other in natural light.

#fibreprep #handspinning
January 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I finished the last day of the #TourdeFleeceFemme by using my blending board to prepare fibre for my next spin.

This is the start of a project which since of you will have heard me talk about for probably two years. The tarot cards in fibre.

Here we have .....
August 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I will finish this tonight. It’s only an ounce… it’s only an ounce… #fibreprep #handspinning #supportspindle
February 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I have a number of events coming up in the next couple of months where I will either be demonstrating or teaching distaff spinning. I will need plenty of fibre prepped, so I’ve made a start with combing these three fleeces. The white and grey are Romney and the black is Romney x Shetland.
March 31, 2025 at 5:30 AM
#fibreprep so it shows up in a feed i follow
spreading out this raw fleece to skirt it was weird. felt like a dead animal. but the ram was unharmed (except about half a dozen minor nicks) and is somewhere out in the yard eating.
November 20, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Another less glamorous side of indie dyeing is Fibre Prep, it is tedious and time consuming so I try to do it in batches 😅

Today I listened to a Times Radio interview with Stephen Fry in which he retold a joke: “Musk is not a Nazi, Nazis made really good cars.” 🙃

#fibreprep #indiedyer #wool #joke
January 31, 2025 at 6:22 AM