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That’s ORANGE….

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I am really not on a good roll with the advent spinning. I am moving from super sparkly and hard to spin green to blaze orange. I am feeling very Oregon Ducks over here.

I guess the upside is that the orange fiber is a high micron fiber count of some origin. It is very soft and spinning fairly easily. I am trying to spin this fiber in the order it came in the calendar. Some of my bags have lost there stickers and so I am guessing on some of them. Though I do know this orange is day 16.

Just going to keep spinning along.

I Hate This One

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Okay this third advent mini on my 2024 Advent Spinning #2 project is AWFUL. I hate spinning it.

This is some sort of long wool fiber mixed with a metric poop ton of stellina. It sheds everywhere and feels awful moving through my fingers. And it’s terrible to keep a consistent single size. 10 out of 10 would never do again.

I have most of it spun and I’m going to make a second cup of coffee and power through so I can pull the next skein and move the heck on!

Happy Spinning!!

A Wee Bit Of Spinning

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Plodding along with my desk spinning. I am onto the second mini fiber bump of my 2024 spinning advent calendar.

I CANNOT explain how soft this fiber is. It’s like melted butter meets baby kitten. I am loving spinning this fiber. I am having to concentrate to not let this get too thin as it will break due to the softness. Therefore I am concentrating on thickness and adding twist to keep it together during plying.

I think some dedicated blocks at my desk will get me moving to get this fiber onto the wheel and out of stash. Happy Spinning!!

A Package Of Cheer

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Apparently Late Night Insomnia Rachelle did a little shopping a couple of weeks ago. She ordered some stuff from 316 Dye Studio. 🙂

Honestly, I remember seeing her on a social media doom scroll but I don’t remember buying anything. So this is a surprise to today Rachelle. I picked up some cute Midwest themed stickers, two bottles of flatter which is a Soak product that is used to scent your woolens or help steam/iron them. And finally I got a mixed fiber batt in Pumpkin Spike Latte. It’s a cormo, silk, stellina blend.

But I think I picked up some good treasures!

Handspun Pull

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After looking honestly at my blanket yesterday I pulled my handspun tub upstairs and did a good dive into it.

I am finding a new things that might work. Except for the two marled skeins in the middle, these are VERY early handspun. It’s honestly thicker and bulkier than what is in my blanket now. I am for sure going to use the blue, pink and dark brown. I am less sure about the pink/yellow mix. And I’d like to save the two marled skeins for last in case I don’t need them.

It is a nice silver lining to finally use some this handspun in a project. With a unique and bulky as this is, I don’t know what else I would have done with it anyway.

Happy Crochet!!

Cleaning Fiber Bags

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The Christmas before last I got a spinning advent calendar. And I only half succeeded with spinning the first 12 days.

In my stash clean I found the bag I had the rest of the days in and moved upstairs next to my Sparrow. I have lots of long zoom meetings in my future so I think I will set my intention to spin on this project during those instead of disassociating or doom scrolling.

The only slight hiccup is that the numbers fell off several of the bags therefore I am no longer certain which day is which. But given that this has set for over a year I think done is better than perfect. The spinning or advent police won’t come after me.

Happy Spinning!!

Final Yardage Count on Pigskin Party 2025 Spin

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Alright the Pigskin Party 2025 Spin is done and dusted!

I am not going to lie, but the finishing of this yarn almost broke me. These skeins were so large that they didn’t fit on my ball winder. So I was forced to hand wind them as I ran it through my yardage counter. It was less than ideal.

So my finished measurements were:

  • Skein #1 on the left – 181 grams and 307 yards of mostly DK weight 3-ply
  • Skein #2 on the right – 145 grams and 270 yards of DK ish. I ran out of singles on this one so the end is 2ply and thinner.

I am pretty happy with this yarn of almost 600 yards of finished yarn. I thought perhaps I would make a blanket out of this yarn but I would have enough yarn to make a cropped sweater? I may need to marinate on this one.

Happy Spinning!!

Plying The Crazy

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I decided to break out my Hitchhiker spinning wheel to ply my 2025 Pigskin Party spinning project.

I got all three bobbins situated on my lazy kate under small but of tension. I chose my Hitchhiker because it came with a jumbo flyer and bobbin.

I rarely use this wheel as it is single treadle and not as intuitive for me to use. And this go around I ended up needing to replace the tension spring before I could go very far. Eventually I got going and consistently in the correct direction.

I am pretty sure I have enough fiber I will need to fill this jumbo bobbin and let it rest to take off the first skein before I can do the second. I am confident 12 ounces is too much for this.

Happy Spinning!!

Three Finished Bobbins

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I succeeded and all the minis from my 2025 Pigksin Party KAL spinning are DONE!

I finished the pink singles over the weekend and they are now resting. I should rewind the bobbins since I have spun some of the first two bobbins multiple weekends ago. But I probably will not, lol.

I need to make a plying plan and set aside some time and I should have a finished yarn. I am very excited to score this for some KAL points for the current Down Cellar Studio KAL and blitz points. I hope this yarn turns out somewhat pretty…I have some crazy colors going here. It’s all about experimentation!

Happy Spinning!!

The Last Of The Pinks

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It’s finally Friday and this is all the fiber I left in my 2025 Pigskin Party spinning project!

Jellybean and I have started a Psych watch/rewatch together. And I decided that since I was rewatching that I would focus on my spinning that is going on my sparrow e-wheel. I laid out all the remaining minis and put the in a “random” order to finish out.

My bobbin is looking so pretty I can’t hardly wait. I still have the blue bobbin and the crazy bobbin already done and waiting. I need to finish these pink singles and let them rest. And then I can start plying them. I am considering plying them on my single treadle wheel as it has a giant bobbin. I need to do some thinking….

Happy Spinning!!