Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast

This podcast is for the week of Sept 5th, and talks about prepping cormo fiber for the dyepot, and spinning a merino silk bamboo blend.

I also refer to two past podcasts so here are the links:

Episode 38 talks about buying a fleece. Episode 39 talks about buying non wool fibers and how to store all fibers. Also the ghost story that I wrote is at the end of this episode.

The fiber I was spinning was from Wooliebullie . Right now the Etsy store is only selling art batts, and hand knitted items.

A catch up podcast talking about Stashdash, the state fair and a black and white Shetland fleece.

Stashdash is a challenge created by the podcast TheKnitGirlls.

The young spinner I mention in the state fair has grown up and now has her own fiber business at Cedar Ridge Fiber Farm .

If you would like to see the daily streams I did during Tour de Fleece, they are archived here. I am still uploading those, but all will be there soon. My current streams can be found at Yarnspinnerstales on Twitch.TV

Back in January 2021, I was doing the New Year thing, thinking about podcasting again, and putting a discussion about the New Year in that podcast. Somehow, the podcast never happened, and this bit of writing I did, was never published. Is it still relevant? I think so, but in a softer way, in that we are really not totally motionless anymore by the Pandemic.

I started the musing with the question 'why during 2020 and especially forced to stay at home, did I not burst into a shower of creative work?' I had to look at what I have needed in the past to be creative, for some answers.

1. Life in 2020 was an effort, no matter how little you did. I had to avoid the news, live with constant companionship, and all the noise that came with that. So the extra effort to be creative was asking too much, and I know from experience I am most creative, when there are no distractions.

2. Creativity needs questions. For years, the questions came first, the answer found usually with creative energy, and the results of all that, shared in the podcast. Somehow, in the noise of the pandemic, I could hear no questions.

3. There were no chances for in person sharing with my other creative buddies. As much as I love hubby, his skill is repairing things. Takes a certain creativity for sure, but never applies to spinning or knitting.

So I had my answers, and also a year of rote spinning. I was working breed by breed through a 52 weeks of sheep program. I had a great time shopping for those fibers online, and usually enjoyed spinning them. Sometimes it did take great creativity to figure out just what to do with that super scratchy fiber (I made scrubbies).

This rote spinning also took me to my fiber stash as much as I could, a goal I have every year and probably accomplished more in 2020 than in the past. This however made me realize what I was doing was productive, and not often creative.

What is the difference between productive and creative? Productive feels less satisfying. That's because in my case, once the yarn is made, there is no further step. No financial goal (sell the yarn) no altruistic goal (donate or knit and donate item) The bottom line is that creativity needs goals that have nothing to do with money or charity. My creativity needs to learn something new (ask the question and find the answer), and teach what I learned. It also needs to be enjoyable, so I feel that the time is well spent.

Unfortunately, working creatively and not production means the process stops here. Often the yarn I make is not good enough to sell. It may not be soft enough to wear. And for both cases, there may not be enough of the yarn. If I turn to production, I will find the whole creative process stops, and I am working, instead of creating.

Here again, as I end this musing, will I stand by my life words, 'It really is all about balance'. Maybe my time scale is off, and several years from now it really will be all about production, after these years of creating. And I will be sharing that with you too, dear listener, probably in this podcast.

The podcasts will have a new format starting with this one. The good news is they will be more frequent, and the maybe or maybe not bad news is they will be shorter.

For years I have been using this podcast to teach many things about the spinning of yarn. Those are available on the website by checking under archives. There is even listings of the episode topics to find specific podcasts. With the future podcasts, I will be sharing my experiences and stories of working with fiber everyday. These will be dated with the episode number but not about specific topics.

I am still streaming three days a week on Twitch.tv

on Wednesday, Friday and Sundays. I just completed streaming all 21 days of the Tour de Fleece and these can be found on my Twitch page under Yarnspinnerstales. There is a lot of spinning there, and it is a good way to catch up on what I have been doing lately.

Thank you for all the years you have joined me on this Journey!

And as always, happy spinning.

Last podcast of 2020 and maybe the last breed reviews I do for awhile. It is time to move forward into other areas of spinning and the new year seems a good time to start.

The breeds reviewed today are Llanowag and Lleyn. The fiber was part of a Welsh breed study pack from Wychwood Spinners

This podcast was created from the audio of a livestream I did when I reviewed these fibers. It is different than my normal podcasting, but I think the addition of the actual sounds of processing and spinning is unique enough to be interesting.

Happy New Year! and of course may it contain much spinning!

When you go to my web page yarnspinnerstales.com there is a drop down box in the upper right of the page. In that, you can find archives. You will need to know the date of the podcast you want to find, then in those archives, go to that year and month. In that area you will find the specific podcast you are looking for. Use this list below, to know the podcast title, general information and the date.

Epi # Topic Date

1 Using Combs/Shetland 10/28/07
2 Spin In General Chatter 11/13/07
3 Raising Angora Rabbits 12/01/07
4 Christmas music only 12/16/07
5 Spinning Angora 01/18/08
6 Border Leicester and BFL 02/02/08
7 Skirting a Shetland Fleece 02/16/08
8 Cheviot and Corriedale 03/02/08
9 Washing a fleece 04/02/08
10 Finn and Perendale 04/22/08
11 Book reviews 05/09/08
12 Cotton Dyeing part 1 Chemical 05/30/08
13 Cotton dyeing part 2 Natural 06/01/08
14 Cormo and Montadale 06/20/08
15 Cotton prep and spinning 07/08/08
16 Romney and Targhee 07/31/08
17 Andean Ply, Fleece Picking 08/17/08
Spinning Bulky yarn
18 CVM and Maine Island Sheep 09/01/08
19 Wheels and how they work 09/16/08
20 Navajo Churro and Jacob 09/30/08
21 Felting a fleece, faking pelts 10/27/08
22 Alpaca 10/31/08
23 Drop Spindles 12/20/08
24 Spinning and Dyeing Silk 01/25/09
25 Cashgora 01/31/09
26 Woolen vs Worsted spinning 02/15/09
27 Tunis and Karakul 03/14/09
28 Dyeing wool Discolored fleece 03/30/09
29 Spaelsau and Icelandic 04/23/09
30 Plying 04/30/09
31 Bamboo and tencel 05/16/09
32 Silk, Soy and Milk fibers 06/01/09
33 Dog hair,Spinning DesignerYarn 06/22/09
Review of Intentional Spinner
34 Carding and Blending fibers 07/07/09
35 Angora rabbits and the heat 07/31/09
Washing alpaca fiber
36 Spinning with a Charkha 08/21/09
37 Southdown,Polworth 09/13/09
Setting up a wheel to spin
38 Selecting a wool fleece 10/10/09
39 Selecting non wool fiber,storing fiber
An original ghost story 10/24/09
40 Spinning for a specific yarn 11/21/09
41 Discussing grist 11/29/09
42 Changing yarn size by adjusting 12/18/09
tension
43 Spinners block unlocking creative 01/20/10
juices
44 Fiber Fairs 04/05/10
45 Coopworth and Polypay 04/18/10
46 Spinning tools 05/08/10
47 Natural Dyeing book reviews 05/31/10
48 Planning a dye day 06/22/10
49 Carbonized bamboo TdF 07/12/10
history of wheels I own
50 Saran Wrap dyeing 08/14/10
51 Dyeing for specific colors 08/28/10
tertiary color study
52 Natural dyeing with walnut leaves 09/28/10
53 Front porch spinning Creativity 10/23/10
54 Color Theory with digitaldurga 11/10/10
55 Color Theory part 2 11/10/10
56 Blending the Tertiary colors 01/10/11
57 Blending Hackle 01/29/11
58 Types of Fiber combs 02/14/11
59 Washing and combing 5 breeds 02/28/11
60 Spinners’ single study 04/07/11
Forsyth product review
61 A new Wheel Majacraft Aura 05/07011
62 Black Welsh Mountain Clun Forest 05/17/11
63 Lock and fold spinning 06/02/11
64 Oogie McGuire interview BWM breed 07/22/11
65 A podcast for knitters who want to 08/20/11
become spinners
66 Learning the Aura and beaded yarn 08/21/11
67 Spinning Woolen 10/05/11
Special Episode Happy fourth Year YST 10/15/11
Promo podcast for The Spinners Journal 11/05/11
68 Interviews with two scholar spinners 11/16/11
69 Leicester longwool, lincoln longwool 01/07/12
spinning DVD review and Stitches
70 Drum Carding projects 02/21/12
71 Digital Sheep 03/31/12
72 Support Spindles 04/28/12
73 Chatting with Fiber folks 05/26/12
74 Let the Spinning Begin 07/02/12
Tour de fleece 2012
75 The Wheel Keeps Spinning TdF12 07/05/12
76 Listen to your inner spinner TdF12 07/08/12
77 Is it rest day yet? TdF12 07/11/12
78 Two types of plying TdF12 07/15/12
79 How the fiber speaks to me TdF12 07/18/12
80 Fractal spinning and finished yarn 08/02/12
81 The finish line TdF12 08/07/12
82 California Red and combing CVM 08/16/12
83 Ryeland and Salish 09/17/12
84 Positive Spin YST on Stash naming 10/05/12
85 Five year anniversary podcast 10/31/12
86 Katahdan review and porch spin in 12/10/12
87 A Fresh Start Review of 2012 spinning 12/31/12
88 Exchanges, an angora spinning 01/27/13
exchange
89 Thin, thinner, thinnest, a froghair 02/04/13
spinning exchange
90 Plying with commercial yarns 03/16/13
91 The more I teach, the more I learn 04/26/13
92 Chain plying (navajo plying) 05/31/12
93 Preparing for TdF 2013 06/25/13
94 TdF13 day 1 and 2 07/02/13
95 TdF13 days 3 thru 5 07/06/13
96 TdF13 days 6 thru 9 07/09/13
97 TdF13 traveling with baby 07/19/13
98 TdF13 final report 07/30/13
99 Book Review Hand Designs for 09/09/13
Spinners and Knitters
100 Finishing yarn 10/20/13
101 Machine Washing alpaca 01/11/14
102 Spinning alpaca 01/30/14
103 Norfolk Horn 02/11/14
104 White faced Woodland 02/14/14
105 Portland fiber 02/18/14
106 Ravellenic spinning 02/22/14
107 Manx Loaghton and Hill Radnor 03/16/14
108 Dyeing Alpaca 04/24/14
109 Greencastle Fiber event 06/02/14
110 Ky Sheep and Wool Festival 06/25/14
111 Preparing for TdF14 07/09/14
112 TdF14 Team Painted Tiger 07/16/14
113 TdF14 Team Majacraft 07/21/14
114 TdF14 Team Farm Fiber Marketplace 07/26/14
115 TdF14 Team Support Spindlers 07/31/14
116 TdF14 Final recap 08/10/14
117 A Wool Gathering Yellow Springs Ohio 10/04/14
118 Spinzilla 2014 11/07/14
119 Fortuitous fleeces 11/27/14
Interview with Digitaldurga
120 Roc Day 2015 01/07/15
121 Wool Wash review interview with 02/03/15
Natalie Redding
122 Review of Norman Kennedy’s DVD 03/26/15
123 Alpaca in the dye pots 05/16/15
124 Spin In General Chatter 06/30/15
125 TdF15 part 1 07/15/15
126 TdF15 part 2 07/23/15
127 TdF15 final update 08/03/15
128 Washing handspun yarn 09/13/15
129 Spinzilla 2015 Ashford spinning quill 10/22/15
130 This, that and daydreams spin in chat 11/26/15
131 New Year, New spinning 01/07/16
132 A Hand spun hat and a mystery yarn 02/17/16
133 Review of Craftsy, and more knitting 03/30/16
with hand spun yarn
134 Fiber purchases, state fair prep and 06/15/16
Tdf spinning plans
135 Pre TdF and a swap 07/03/16
136 TdF16 podcast 1 08/01/16
137 TdF16 podcast 2 08/15/16
138 TdF16 podcast 3 08/27/16
139 Ravellenics 2016 and State Fair 09/27/16
140 Spinzilla and Natural Dye mordants 12/02/16
141 Spinning New Year’s resolutions 02/02/17
Book review Yarn.i.tec.ture
A Spinning Sabatical 03/10/17
142 Life Changes,Why Worry? 06/16/17
A conversation with my daughter
143 Counting Treadles for even plying 07/03/17
144 Dyeing with Lichens part 1 07/14/17
145 Dyeing with Lichens part 2 08/19/17
146 Spindle Crane review 10/01/17
147 Spinzilla 2017 Recap 11/02/17
148 Dyeing with Lichens part 3 11/21/17
149 Ten Years of Podcasting 01/25/18
150 Ravellenics 2018 03/28/18
151 Episode 151 Fiber Fairs 04/20/18
152 Episode 152 July 2018 Spin in 07/04/18
153 TdF 2018 part 1 08/17/18
154 TdF 2018 part 2 09/03/18
155 Stitches Midwest 2018 10/09/18
156 Drafting 01/08/19
157 The Pegosa Project Alpaca 03/18/19
158 Post Op Spinning 05/15/19
Book Review Creative Spinning Allison Dayker
159 Finally a Fiber Fair 06/17/19
160 Book review Spindle Spinning 07/02/19
161 TdF2019 part 1 07/28/19
162 TdF2019 part 2 08/24/19
163 Review of a spinning video 09/18/19
found on Kanopy through library
164 Oct 2019 part 1 10/28/19
165 Oct 2019 part 2 Herding the Stash 11/02/19
166 Book Review Spinning Beyond the Basics 11/18/19
Anne Field
167 A Year of Perfect Vision 2020 01/22/20
168 Bleu de Maine and Charolais Breed reviews 02/29/20
169 Interview with Deborah Niemann Shave em to Save em project 03/25/20
170 Cheviot Breed review 04/25/20
171 East Fresian breed review 05/01/20
172 Black Welsh and White Welsh breed reviews 05/16/20
173 Gulf Coast Native breed review 06/19/20
174 Oxford down breed review 07/07/20
175 Shropshire breed review 07/07/20
176 Whitefaced Woodland breed review 07/07/20
177 Ryeland breed review 08/12/20
178 Coopworth breed review 08/20/20
179 Spinning yak fiber 09/12/20
180 Lonk breed review 10/29/20
181 Hebridean breed review 10/29/20

In the last two podcasts, for some reason I said the livestreams were archived on Facebook, which is not true. I didn't even catch it as I was editing. Instead of the tedious process of edit and releasing the episodes, I decided to record this separate little audio.

The livestreams originate on Twitch.TV under Yarnspinnerstales

The videos will stay there for a month to six weeks, if you do not catch me when I am live streaming.

After that, the videos are archived to you tube. Once you go to you tube, in the search box type lusi222 channel. That should take you to my channel. Be sure when you go to the video area, you find where it says all videos, to be able to catch them from the beginning. Or the most recent will be quickly available right on top. If you subscribe to my lusi222 channel, you should be notified when a new video is uploaded. I will try a direct link here, but if it doesn't work, follow my suggestion above.

I have to decide which of the livestreams are uploaded to archive, so I am not selecting all of them. Much of the Sunday afternoon livestreams, are just for spinning and chatting. I am focusing on the livestreams that I teach something about spinning or using hand spun yarn, to select what I am uploading. I hope that will let these livestreams have interest over the years ahead, just as my podcasts have over the last thirteen years.

Happy listening, watching, and of course, spinning!

First up in the podcast is a report on my study of the Lonk Sheep Breed. It's short so I went on to talk about all the spinning projects I have currently going that involve the Merino Breed. Later, I will do a more complete breed study for that breed. Finally, I talk about the second Tour de Fleece that ran from Aug 26th to Sept 20th, and what I spun during that time.

Lonk fiber was purchased from Wychwood Spinner

Superwash merino that I spun into sock yarn was purchased from Yarn Hollow.

Sadly, the Ozark Carding Mill I mention is permanently closed.

The Facebook group I have been using for the study of different sheep breeds is called 52 weeks of sheep . I am not sure if FB will allow the link to work.

In this unusual year, even the Tour de Fleece was affected. The Tour de France did not run in July as usual, but was celebrated on Ravelry anyway. Then when the Tour did ride in Sept, we did it again.

This podcast is about what I spun and learned during the first Tour. I also included the breed review for Yak fiber, since spinning it was one of my challenge day projects.

The Yak fiber was purchased from Laughing Lamb fibers.

If you are looking for my live stream, it is on Twitch.tv

Need a way to document your spinning project from start to finish? I created the Spinners Journal for doing just that!

The Coopworth Sheep breed is a relatively new breed, as sheep breeds go. The sample I worked with was from a lamb and contained long lovely locks. I cover in this podcast how to wash and spin locks, and the specifics of this sampling.

Information on the Breed is from the Fleece and Fiber Source Book.

Another book I mention is Merino by Margaret Stove.

Previously I reviewed Coopworth in Episode 45 .

I have also done a live stream on washing locks.

In the second part of this live stream, I show how to spin those locks.

All of my live streams are being archived on my channel on YouTube, so if those links above do not work try going to this channel .

A new computer meant a whole new learning curve on new software to record and edit podcasts. I think I finally have a set up I am happy to release.

In this short podcast, I review one of the 52 weeks of sheep breeds, called Ryeland.

I talked about this breed in the first part of a previous podcast, you can access that with this link.

The Ryeland fiber was purchased from Marie Redding fibe r on Etsy.

So much behind that title! I am not stopping the audio podcast. I am moving forward on the wave of technology and taking my concept for YST with it. I have set up a channel on TwitchTV

You can find me under the same name as the podcast, yarnspinnerstales.

I plan to live stream twice a week and during those videos you can join me, chat by typing, watch in the video what I am working on (and have been trying to explain with words for 12 years in the podcast!) ask me questions,tell me what you are doing, and so on and so on. I think as the community of listeners/watchers/chatters grow we will come close to a vision I have always had for YST, a spin in.

I also have a Discord channel set up for us to chat, and share photos. It would be a great place to ask questions you would like me to answer there or show on the next live stream. Click this link for the invitation to join the channel.

Live streams will be Weds evenings and Sunday afternoons. Once you are on Twitch and are following my channel, make sure you also click to be alerted when I go live. The alert will always tell you in your own time zone.

If you can not watch the live stream, the videos will be available on my channel for 2 weeks. Be sure to check in and watch it.

The breed White Face Woodland was studied by the 52 weeks of sheep group on week 14. Unfortunately, I was unable to obtain a sample of this fiber yet. But this breed is not new to me, I reviewed it way back on Feb15 2014. It is Episode 104 and I encourage you to hit the link and listen to it again.

The picture I show with this podcast are the tiny skeins I did during that first study. The fiber came from Hilltop Cloud.

In the second part of this podcast I talk about doing a virtual shopping tour of one of my local fiber fairs.

This breed review, second of the three I did at the same time, covers the Shropshire breed, another Down breed from the British Isles.

I had two sources of the fiber. The first, a small sample, came from Wychwood Spinner . The second was from Marie Redding Fiber Arts Etsy store. The samples were completely different, so I combined them into one yarn, a tail spun yarn to display the lovely long locks in the Marie Redding sample.

I mention the book The Spinners Book of Yarn Designs , as a source for one way to make tail spun yarn.

Another method for tail spinning can be seen on this You Tube video.

For this month, I am releasing three shorter podcasts, all reviewing sheep breeds. These do not ave to be listened to in any specific order, it was just how I recorded and edited these.

The sample I used to review the fiber was part of a Down Breed study from Wychwood Spinner .

I also refer to the book The Fleece and Fiber Source Book by Carol Ekarius and Deborah Robson.

This breed was studied by the group 52 weeks of sheep on week 12.

The sheep breed for this podcast was new to me, after all my years of reviewing. The Gulf Coast Native was raised long ago for it's tolerance to the conditions of the deep US south regions. But it lost it's favored position, and is now on the critical list of sheep breeds. The group 52 weeks of sheep included it this year in it's list to study. I purchased my fiber sample from Herie7 in the Etsy store .

I also spend some time talking about washing fleeces that are very dirty. Beside the dish detergent Dawn which is readily available, I review Namaste Farms washing products from Natalie Redding. It is available from the Woolery here .

This podcast is a review of spinning the fibers from two Welsh sheep breeds. The Black Welsh Mountain is commonly known in the US, but it considered a conservation breed, due to it's small number of animals. The Welsh mountain sheep is white, and not raised much in the US.

I had reviewed the BWM breed in several previous podcasts, so I will provide links to those.

Episode 62 is a review of the breed's fiber

Episode 64 is an interview with a BWM breeder Oogie McGuire. Her ranch is call Desert Weyr and she is still selling the BWM fiber and yarns and is now part of the Shave 'Em to Save 'Em program.

Because of my participation in the fleece study group 52 Weeks of Sheep, I discovered the other Welsh Mountain sheep, with white fleece. I got a sampling of UK fiber for both the BWM and the Welsh Mountain from Wychwood Spinner and talk about both in the podcast. The fleece of Welsh mountain that I purchased at a fiber fair is unfortunately unidentified as to the vendor so I can not give a link to that at this time.

This is another short breed review podcast. The East Fresian fiber I spun was a lovely brown color and very easy to spin in roving.

There is a short information portion included at the end for a breed of hair sheep called Barbados Blackbelly. Unfortunately I have not been able to get a fiber sample yet for this Shave 'Em to Save 'Em passport breed. But the group 52 weeks of sheep had it on the list for week 8, which is part of this podcast timing. If I ever have the chance to spin some of the fiber, I will review it again.

This is the first of a series of sheep breed fleece reviews. Today's episode is about the Cheviot sheep. I was able to spin sample from two different families of this sheep, the Classic Cheviot from the US farm Yucca Farm. I was not able to find a web link for them on Google.

The Brecknock Hill Cheviot sample came from Wychwood Spinner. It was part of a Welsh Experience sampler pack.

I previously reviewed this breed in Episode 8 of this podcast, if you would like to listen to that also.

Today's podcast includes an interview with Deborah Niemann, who has the wonderful job of working for the Livestock Conservancy organization. In our interview, she shares all the details of the next two year program to introduce spinners and fiber artists to the 22 rare and recovering breeds of sheep through the Shave 'Em to Save 'Em program. I recently got the passport that is used to record whenever you use a fiber from one of these breeds and will be talking about working with these fibers in future pod casts.

Here are some of the links for this podcast:

Livestock Conservancy

SESE program

Teaching videos for sheep breeders of rare wools

Woolhalla Tunis a provider of SESE breeds fiber

Incredible Edible use of waste fleece for mulching

Finally I will be renewing my efforts to remind my listeners about the Spinners' Journal I have for sale, by periodical posting a promo pod cast. If you are interested now, you can find it on Lulu.com here

One of my year long projects is being a part of the FaceBook group called 52 Weeks of Sheep. Each week we study a different breed of fiber producing animals, mostly sheep. In this podcast I talk about the last month of those studies, and go into detail on two new to me breeds. Both are French in origin, the Bleu du Maine and the Charollais. One thing I failed to mention in the podcast was after spinning the Charollais fiber, I used for the first time a small sampler loom. It is a fun way to sample texture or colors one would see if the yarns are to be used weaving. It's final product size is a perfect mug rug.

My fiber that I used to spin these breeds came from Wychwood Spinner .

Another breed was the BFL. The photo shows a Blue Faced Leicester skein I spun from top purchased from Hilltop Cloud.

The group also studied Cheviot. I did a breed review in Episode 8 , if you want to listen to it again. Likewise Episode 45 is my previous review of the breed Coopworth. I was not able to obtain any of this fiber yet to add to this review.

I visited the yarn store in Nashville Ind, called The Clay Purl . There is a knit night there on Tuesday evenings, and it was lovely to meet the knitters and sit and listen and join the conversation. The shop is full of lovely yarn and some dyed fibers for spinning. I purchased a merino braid dyed by Bean Blossom Fibers.

Happy New Year! 2020 oh my. I start out this podcast with a yarnspinnerstales, about seeing life with perfect vision.

And speaking of new, Santa brought a brand new mic set up for the YST studio. It meant a new learning curve, and I think the sound will improve more as I work with it, but all in all I am happy with it.

Over the next two years, I am going to revisit and redo my rare breed sample files. It has always been a passion of mine to find and spin as many breeds of sheep as I can. I have found a group on Face Book called 52 weeks of sheep who have the same passion. Each week there is a new breed to study and hopefully have fiber to spin. This week's breed was one I had never heard about, Bleu de Maine. I love the blue black faces of these sheep and have included the photo for this podcast.

Here's the links promised in the podcast:

The designer of the mystery shawl I am currently knitting with my handspun is Lyrical Knits.

The yarn I am using was an experiment to dye the tertiary colors. I talk about it in episode 51.

The Shave Em to Save Em program and other good information about rare breeds conservation programs can be found on the livestock conservancy web page.

And the source I found on Etsy for samples of a few of what I will be spinning with the 52 Weeks of Sheep face book group is WychWood Spinner .

Finally the fiber I am spinning currently is a dyed Blue Face Leicester from A Star is Shorn .

When you go to my web page yarnspinnerstales.com there is a drop down box in the upper right of the page. In that, you can find archives. You will need to know the date of the podcast you want to find, then in those archives, go to that year and month. In that area you will find the specific podcast you are looking for. Use this list below, to know the podcast title, general information and the date.

Epi # Topic Date

1 Using Combs/Shetland 10/28/07
2 Spin In General Chatter 11/13/07
3 Raising Angora Rabbits 12/01/07
4 Christmas music only 12/16/07
5 Spinning Angora 01/18/08
6 Border Leicester and BFL 02/02/08
7 Skirting a Shetland Fleece 02/16/08
8 Cheviot and Corriedale 03/02/08
9 Washing a fleece 04/02/08
10 Finn and Perendale 04/22/08
11 Book reviews 05/09/08
12 Cotton Dyeing part 1 Chemical 05/30/08
13 Cotton dyeing part 2 Natural 06/01/08
14 Cormo and Montadale 06/20/08
15 Cotton prep and spinning 07/08/08
16 Romney and Targhee 07/31/08
17 Andean Ply, Fleece Picking 08/17/08
Spinning Bulky yarn
18 CVM and Maine Island Sheep 09/01/08
19 Wheels and how they work 09/16/08
20 Navajo Churro and Jacob 09/30/08
21 Felting a fleece, faking pelts 10/27/08
22 Alpaca 10/31/08
23 Drop Spindles 12/20/08
24 Spinning and Dyeing Silk 01/25/09
25 Cashgora 01/31/09
26 Woolen vs Worsted spinning 02/15/09
27 Tunis and Karakul 03/14/09
28 Dyeing wool Discolored fleece 03/30/09
29 Spaelsau and Icelandic 04/23/09
30 Plying 04/30/09
31 Bamboo and tencel 05/16/09
32 Silk, Soy and Milk fibers 06/01/09
33 Dog hair,Spinning DesignerYarn 06/22/09
Review of Intentional Spinner
34 Carding and Blending fibers 07/07/09
35 Angora rabbits and the heat 07/31/09
Washing alpaca fiber
36 Spinning with a Charkha 08/21/09
37 Southdown,Polworth 09/13/09
Setting up a wheel to spin
38 Selecting a wool fleece 10/10/09
39 Selecting non wool fiber,storing fiber
An original ghost story 10/24/09
40 Spinning for a specific yarn 11/21/09
41 Discussing grist 11/29/09
42 Changing yarn size by adjusting 12/18/09
tension
43 Spinners block unlocking creative 01/20/10
juices
44 Fiber Fairs 04/05/10
45 Coopworth and Polypay 04/18/10
46 Spinning tools 05/08/10
47 Natural Dyeing book reviews 05/31/10
48 Planning a dye day 06/22/10
49 Carbonized bamboo TdF 07/12/10
history of wheels I own
50 Saran Wrap dyeing 08/14/10
51 Dyeing for specific colors 08/28/10
tertiary color study
52 Natural dyeing with walnut leaves 09/28/10
53 Front porch spinning Creativity 10/23/10
54 Color Theory with digitaldurga 11/10/10
55 Color Theory part 2 11/10/10
56 Blending the Tertiary colors 01/10/11
57 Blending Hackle 01/29/11
58 Types of Fiber combs 02/14/11
59 Washing and combing 5 breeds 02/28/11
60 Spinners' single study 04/07/11
Forsyth product review
61 A new Wheel Majacraft Aura 05/07011
62 Black Welsh Mountain Clun Forest 05/17/11
63 Lock and fold spinning 06/02/11
64 Oogie McGuire interview BWM breed 07/22/11
65 A podcast for knitters who want to 08/20/11
become spinners
66 Learning the Aura and beaded yarn 08/21/11
67 Spinning Woolen 10/05/11
Special Episode Happy fourth Year YST 10/15/11
Promo podcast for The Spinners Journal 11/05/11
68 Interviews with two scholar spinners 11/16/11
69 Leicester longwool, lincoln longwool 01/07/12
spinning DVD review and Stitches East
70 Drum Carding projects 02/21/12
71 Digital Sheep 03/31/12
72 Support Spindles 04/28/12
73 Chatting with Fiber folks 05/26/12
74 Let the Spinning Begin 07/02/12
Tour de fleece 2012
75 The Wheel Keeps Spinning TdF12 07/05/12
76 Listen to your inner spinner TdF12 07/08/12
77 Is it rest day yet? TdF12 07/11/12
78 Two types of plying TdF12 07/15/12
79 How the fiber speaks to me TdF12 07/18/12
80 Fractal spinning and finished yarn 08/02/12
81 The finish line TdF12 08/07/12
82 California Red and combing CVM 08/16/12
83 Ryeland and Salish 09/17/12
84 Positive Spin YST on Stash naming 10/05/12
85 Five year anniversary podcast 10/31/12
86 Katahdan review and porch spin in 12/10/12
87 A Fresh Start Review of 2012 spinning 12/31/12
88 Exchanges, an angora spinning 01/27/13
exchange
89 Thin, thinner, thinnest, a froghair 02/04/13
spinning exchange
90 Plying with commercial yarns 03/16/13
91 The more I teach, the more I learn 04/26/13
92 Chain plying (navajo plying) 05/31/12
93 Preparing for TdF 2013 06/25/13
94 TdF13 day 1 and 2 07/02/13
95 TdF13 days 3 thru 5 07/06/13
96 TdF13 days 6 thru 9 07/09/13
97 TdF13 traveling with baby 07/19/13
98 TdF13 final report 07/30/13
99 Book Review Hand Designs for 09/09/13
Spinners and Knitters
100 Finishing yarn 10/20/13
101 Machine Washing alpaca 01/11/14
102 Spinning alpaca 01/30/14
103 Norfolk Horn 02/11/14
104 White faced Woodland 02/14/14
105 Portland fiber 02/18/14
106 Ravellenic spinning 02/22/14
107 Manx Loaghton and Hill Radnor 03/16/14
108 Dyeing Alpaca 04/24/14
109 Greencastle Fiber event 06/02/14
110 Ky Sheep and Wool Festival 06/25/14
111 Preparing for TdF14 07/09/14
112 TdF14 Team Painted Tiger 07/16/14
113 TdF14 Team Majacraft 07/21/14
114 TdF14 Team Farm Fiber Marketplace 07/26/14
115 TdF14 Team Support Spindlers 07/31/14
116 TdF14 Final recap 08/10/14
117 A Wool Gathering Yellow Springs Ohio 10/04/14
118 Spinailla 2014 11/07/14
119 Fortutous fleeces 11/27/14
Interview with Digitaldurga
120 Roc Day 2015 01/07/15
121 Wool Wash review interview with 02/03/15
Natalie Redding
122 Review of Norman Kennedy's DVD 03/26/15
123 Alpaca in the dyepots 05/16/15
124 Spin In General Chatter 06/30/15
125 TdF15 part 1 07/15/15
126 TdF15 part 2 07/23/15
127 TdF15 final update 08/03/15
128 Washing handspun yarn 09/13/15
129 Spinzilla 2015 Ashford spinning quill 10/22/15
130 This, that and daydreams spin in chat 11/26/15
131 New Year, New spinning 01/07/16
132 A Hand spun hat and a mystery yarn 02/17/16
133 Review of Craftsy, and more knitting 03/30/16
with hand spun yarn
134 Fiber purchases, state fair prep and 06/15/16
Tdf spinning plans
135 Pre TdF and a swap 07/03/16
136 TdF16 podcast 1 08/01/16
137 TdF16 podcast 2 08/15/16
138 TdF16 podcast 3 08/27/16
139 Ravellenics 2016 and State Fair 09/27/16
140 Spinzilla and Natural Dye mordants 12/02/16
141 Spinning New Year's resolutions 02/02/17
Book review Yarn.i.tec.ture
A Spinning Sabatical 03/10/17
142 Life Changes,Why Worry? 06/16/17
A conversation with my daughter
143 Counting Treadles for even plying 07/03/17
144 Dyeing with Lichens part 1 07/14/17
145 Dyeing with Lichens part 2 08/19/17
146 Spindle Crane review 10/01/17
147 Spinzilla 2017 Recap 11/02/17
148 Dyeing with Lichens part 3 11/21/17
149 Ten Years of Podcasting 01/25/18
150 Ravellenics 2018 03/28/18
151 Episode 151 Fiber Fairs 04/20/18
152 Episode 152 July 2018 Spin in 07/04/18
153 TdF 2018 part 1 08/17/18
154 TdF 2018 part 2 09/03/18
155 Stitches Midwest 2018 10/09/18
156 Drafting 01/08/19
157 The Pegosa Project Alpaca 03/18/19
158 Post Op Spinning 05/15/19
Book Review Creative Spinning Allison Dayker
159 Finally a Fiber Fair 06/17/19
160 Book review Spindle Spinning 07/02/19
161 TdF2019 part 1 07/28/19
162 TdF2019 part 2 08/24/19
163 Review of a spinning video 09/18/19
found on Kanopy through library
164 Oct 2019 part 1 10/28/19
165 Oct 2019 part 2 Herding the Stash 11/02/19
166 Book Review Anne Field 11/18/19
Beyond the Basics of Spinning

The book Spinning Wool beyond the Basics is by Anne Field. This podcast is a review of the book.

There are two editions of this book. The first, published in 2010 by Trafalgar Square Publishing is shown here on Ebay. Google book link is here .

The second edition was published by A & C Black Publishers. It seems to be the same book and information, although I have not seen an actual copy of the book yet. It is shown in this link at Alibris.

I talk about her differentiating between four ways to spin, woolen, semi woolen, worsted, and semi worsted. The preparation of the fiber and the actual way it is spun, determines which type of yarn you are spinning.

This podcast continues from episode 164, for Oct 2019. I talk about a few problems I had to solve during the Spin Together, with my wheel and spinning.

The strange title of this podcast. is all about a major reorganization I did of my fiber.

The 100 year shawl along I mention, can be found as a group on Facebook. That is also true of the other group I am in called 52 Weeks of Sheep .

One of the breeds this group recently studied was Babydoll Southdown, and I talk some in the podcast about this breed's information.

The fiber fair I went to and talk about in this podcast has a web page here , if you want to plan to go next October.

My wonderful door prize at the fiber fair, came from Rock and String Creations.

So much happening on the spinning front for me this month, that I needed two podcasts to talk about it all. So this is the first one, and Episode 165 will continue with more spinning goodness.

As promised, some links to people mentioned in the podcast:

A lovely squishy package arrived at my house one day full of Baby Doll South down fiber. It was processed and mixed with lovely mohair and a tiny bit of nylon. The ewe's name is Lily and was white. The ram's name is Ray, and is a lovely silver gray.

This fiber is from Teresa at SpinHistory.com

Wooly Knob Fiber Mill, is only on FaceBook, search for them there.

Fall Apart Farm , McArthur, Ohio has purebreed registered Icelandic sheep. They also can be found on Face

Dream Weaver Fiber Arts where I met Kathy at the Wool Gathering and bought a lovely turkish spindle.

Alpaca Pines Fiber and Mill is the source of the beautiful alpaca I spun during Spin Together. They are in Illinois.

The Spin Together Group on Facebook is now a good choice for replacing Spinzilla, spinning during the first week of Oct. Check it out for next year's spinning.

This podcast is very different and so you have a choice.

There is a library based video website called Kanopy. I found a very interesting video on spinning throughout the world. I wanted other spinners to see it too, but they may not have access unless their library card (and their library system) grants access to Kanopy. The reason I do not include a link here, is because it is best to access it from your library's website.

So first, if you have a current library card,go to their website and look for Kanopy, click through to it and set up a free account. Then search and watch the video World Spinning Techniques. If you do watch the video, you really do not need to listen to the podcast. If you can not access the video, then there is a detailed, albeit,verbal description from when I watched the video.

Or do both, I would love to have you listen in to my reactions to all the amazing things I saw in the video.

The picture connected with this podcast has just slight relevance, it is three sample skeins of the alpaca fiber I have been spinning lately. Alpaca is the first fiber talked about in the video.

I was able to do so much during this Tour de Fleece, it took two podcasts to tell you all about it. See the previous podcast for part one of this two part series.

The first fiber I talk about spinning is called Fake Cashmere, due to it softness. It is however, 100% nylon. I bought my fiber from a dyer whose business is Jazz Turtle.

It seems most people like to spin this fiber blended with other fibers, but I enjoyed spinning it on it's own. Another source for the fiber is Paradise Fibers

The next fiber I worked with was a dyed merino silk batt in the colors purple and green. Listen as I explain how I made color sequencing work for the 2 ply yarn.

On the TdF challenge day, I got out the book charka, not something I have much skill with. I was able to set it up and spin some single on it for my challenge.

I spent many days during the Tdf dyeing fiber, both in locks and in big pots full of fiber. I had the amazing once in a life time experience of dyeing a color I will never be able to repeat, calico locks. This podcast tells you how that happened.

Finally for the state fair entries, I needed an art yarn and chose to spin locks into a yarn. It was a learning experience and I share all I learned to make this yarn.

At the beginning of the podcast I talk about how there will be no Spinzilla this year, but TNNA has provided these two links for spinning fund raisers: Britspin also Spin Her Free and The owner of Purple Lamb Fibers is doing a Spin Together Oct 6 through Oct 12, 2019

Lots and lots of information in this podcast, grab a big chunk of fiber, your spinning tool of choice, and join me.

This is the first of a two part podcast, because I had so many projects to tell you about for the Tour de Fleece.

In this podcast I talk about spinning cotton sliver on the Majacraft Aura, not a very traditional way to spin cotton. My challenge day project was finally achieving those beautiful tight rolags on my blending board.

I also completed two skeins. The first was a dyed polworth from Yarn Hollow

The second skein was a gray Horned Dorset fiber, which I got from Dyed in the Wool . I talk a little about the breed too.

I suggest checking out Hilltop Cloud , to get an idea of the type of rolags I was making on the blending board, but when I checked the website they are not currently in stock. A quick search of Etsy brought up these , and these.

Here is the first of the book review only podcasts I mentioned in a previous podcast. After years of podcasting, I realized that the book reviews will be easier to find if in their own individual podcast.

This podcast reviews the book Spindle Spinning from Novice to Expert by Connie Delaney.

Links to possible sources for this book can be found on Abe Books

Also seen listed on Ebay here

In both cases, the exact listings may no longer be available, but it serves for you to see the book and description, and know how to search for it in those websites.

One last link is to the fiber I talk about in the review, kenaf. The Wiki page for it is here .

It's that time of year, and the tents are up and the vendors hopeful as the cycle of yearly fiber fairs continue. I mention in the podcast my 'blue sky' dream of hitting them nationwide some year. A van full of fiber to sell, and be replaced by purchases, sounds just right!

The photo for this podcast shows the Pegosa alpaca fiber I am currently spinning by the lock on my Roberta.

There are lots of links for the podcast, for everyone that I mentioned, be sure to check out the webpages.

The Woolery , which you can find at fiber fairs and their storefront.

Dyed in the Woo l. I owe Sandy Ferguson an apology for not mentioning in the podcast, her as an owner of this business too!

The Alien Encounter sock pattern can be found on Ravelry, here .

The Stoltman Family farm only has a FaceBook page, here .

Ohio Valley Natural Fibers is the fiber processing mill I talk about.

Yarn Geek Fibers has this page of dyed yarn and fibers for sale.

Punkin Patch is Equinox Farm home of the crazy sheep lady. There's a good blog on that website, where you can get you fill of photos and good writing. This is the farm from whom I purchased Bullwinkle's fleece.

This blog had one post that showed Bullwinkle , he's the white sheep.

This farm is also part of the breed conservancy program, Shave 'em to Save 'em, for rare breed sheep.

I realize that is an unusual subtitle for a postcast. I recently had a total knee replacement surgery, and for the first 15 minutes or so of this podcast, I do talk about how the healing process delayed my spinning and fiber work for several weeks.

But once the spinning wheels got going again, I had two WIP to talk about, the Pegosa alpaca project was continued and I finished spinning two fibers I had used for a project back in Sept. a babydoll Southdown and a Polworth.

As promised I did one book review at the end of this podcast. It is Creative Spinning , a creative combination of two authors, Alison Daykin and Jane Deane.

The Polworth fiber I spun is from MohairandMore.

The episode of this podcast where I review the breed Babydoll Southdown is here, episode 37.

Please see a separate non podcast page on the blog for a listing of episodes of this podcast that contain book reviews. That way I can list the episode number, and the book title, and keep it updated.

Photo shown with this episode is of the southdown/polworth skeins I finished and talked about in the podcast.

It's official! I have joined the ranks of retirees. Now it is time to 'spend' my stash, or as I have decided to call it, my retirement 'fund'.

We start this with a very large blanket of alpaca fiber from an alpaca named Pegosa. The first pound is washed, but not completely processed as I am using it to test various processing methods. This podcast talks about combing with handheld combs, and the yarn that I spun from that top.

Needless to say there will be plenty more to podcast about Pegosa's fiber in the next few months. However I have talked about alpaca in past podcasts too. If you are interested, here is a list of episodes with links:

Episode 35 Washing alpaca

Episode 101 Machine washing alpaca

Episode 102 Spinning alpaca

Episode 108 Dyeing alpaca

Episode 123 Alpaca in the dyepots

One other spinning project completed since the last podcast was fiber from Homestead Hobbyist , a lovely polworth/silk blend.

Happy New Year! It is always full of thoughts and plans for the spinning projects ahead. In today's podcast I talk about maintaining watch on the drafting zone to make your yarn more intentional. Watching the drafting zone will help you break out of making the same WPI yarn all the time to making art yarns that feature thick and thin singles. All of this is the topic of this podcast.

I have done previous podcasts on drafting if you care to find those and listen to them. Just click on the links to go to them. Episode 26 (woolen and worsted spinning) episode 40 (spinning intentional yarn) and episode 67 (woolen spinning).

Links to things I also mention in the podcast are:

Book of Days , something I came across while looking up distaff day.

Fellviewfibres

The source of the punis I spun, made from wool and silk.

The videos I viewed while researching spinning thick and thin can be found on Youtube by searching the topic.

Links to vendors mentioned in the podcast:

Stitches events in general Atlanta Ga event May 30-June 2 2019 Stitches United is on that page too.

Youghiogheny Yarns Keri Fosbrink dyer

Fiberlady bamboo fiber

Buffalo Wool Co Buffalo wool yarn and fiber

Franklin Habit

Shirsty Cat Designs Merino silk fiber

2 Guys Yarn Company

Soak Flatter spray

Lost City knits Denise Bell
Applecross Highland shawl Ravelry pattern

Knitted Knockers

knitbahpurl

Stevenbe

Vintage Lace book by Gladys Amedro

The video blogger I mentioned is Quayln Stark and he blogs on youtube. The stitches midwest podcast can be found here

I talk about a fiber processor but failed to mention the name. The farm business is called Alpaca Pines and their website can be found here .

There was a what I called a wood ball winder that I was unable to find online to show you. I have found out since that this item has another use, which is to hold the ball of yarn wound on to it as you knit. So the concept for it I think is to wind the yarn on it from a skein and then let it sit near you as you knit, it will rotate release the yarn. No balls of yarn rolling away from you.

I was not able to find any 1500 yard one dye lot skeins of yarn online, like I saw in the market. I think this concept is a custom dye project, so if interested contact your favorite dyer, see if they can purchase the yarn in the large skein and dye it for you.

In this discussion of what I did during the 2018 Tour de Fleece, I talk about the wool breed Zwartbles, spinning buffalo fiber on a drop spindle and finally a very rare breed of wool, Dor Galen.

The buffalo fiber was included in the Clouds of Luxury from the Etsy store Sericin

The Dor Galen fiber was purchased at a fiber festival several years ago from Sandy Ferguson's Dyed in the Wool

Dor Galen is no longer available, the horned dorset at the bottom of the above linked page is probably a good close substitute.

My favorite time of the spinning year, the Tour de Fleece event. As promised, here is the review of what I spun this year.

This is part one of the two part podcast.

A few links. To see photos of all of the lovely fibers and yarns I talked about, go to my group in Ravelry, yarnspinners spin in and look at the TdF2018 thread in the discussions. You must be signed into Ravelry for the link to work.

Links to the fiber artists whose fiber I spun and talked about are:

A Star is Shorn the Etsy store. I spun a superwash merino

Fellview Fibres the source of the wool/silk rolags I spun for the first challenge day.

When I find that a podcast has no specific topic, but many different stories, I call them a spin-in. I also likened this to writing you a letter, dear listener! But mostly it feels like when we gather together with our spinning wheels and spin and talk. One never really knows what the conversations will be.

I catch you up on my recent projects, spinning and otherwise, tell you about a few things I read online, rant a bit about books and bookcases, and end with the promise of lots of spinning to come as I participate in this years TdF on Ravelry.

I took time to update the episode list last month, so if you want to find a specific topic in a podcast, check out that list. It will show the date the podcast was released. Use that date to find the podcast in the archives on this website.

Epi # Topic Date

1 Using Combs/Shetland 10/28/07
2 Spin In General Chatter 11/13/07
3 Raising Angora Rabbits 12/01/07
4 Christmas music only 12/16/07
5 Spinning Angora 01/18/08
6 Border Leicester and BFL 02/02/08
7 Skirting a Shetland Fleece 02/16/08
8 Cheviot and Corriedale 03/02/08
9 Washing a fleece 04/02/08
10 Finn and Perendale 04/22/08
11 Book reviews 05/09/08
12 Cotton Dyeing part 1 Chemical 05/30/08
13 Cotton dyeing part 2 Natural 06/01/08
14 Cormo and Montadale 06/20/08
15 Cotton prep and spinning 07/08/08
16 Romney and Targhee 07/31/08
17 Andean Ply, Fleece Picking 08/17/08
Spinning Bulky yarn
18 CVM and Maine Island Sheep 09/01/08
19 Wheels and how they work 09/16/08
20 Navajo Churro and Jacob 09/30/08
21 Felting a fleece, faking pelts 10/27/08
22 Alpaca 10/31/08
23 Drop Spindles 12/20/08
24 Spinning and Dyeing Silk 01/25/09
25 Cashgora 01/31/09
26 Woolen vs Worsted spinning 02/15/09
27 Tunis and Karakul 03/14/09
28 Dyeing wool Discolored fleece 03/30/09
29 Spaelsau and Icelandic 04/23/09
30 Plying 04/30/09
31 Bamboo and tencel 05/16/09
32 Silk, Soy and Milk fibers 06/01/09
33 Dog hair,Spinning DesignerYarn 06/22/09
Review of Intentional Spinner
34 Carding and Blending fibers 07/07/09
35 Angora rabbits and the heat 07/31/09
Washing alpaca fiber
36 Spinning with a Charkha 08/21/09
37 Southdown,Polworth 09/13/09
Setting up a wheel to spin
38 Selecting a wool fleece 10/10/09
39 Selecting non wool fiber,storing fiber
An original ghost story 10/24/09
40 Spinning for a specific yarn 11/21/09
41 Discussing grist 11/29/09
42 Changing yarn size by adjusting 12/18/09
tension
43 Spinners block unlocking creative 01/20/10
juices
44 Fiber Fairs 04/05/10
45 Coopworth and Polypay 04/18/10
46 Spinning tools 05/08/10
47 Natural Dyeing book reviews 05/31/10
48 Planning a dye day 06/22/10
49 Carbonized bamboo TdF 07/12/10
history of wheels I own
50 Saran Wrap dyeing 08/14/10
51 Dyeing for specific colors 08/28/10
tertiary color study
52 Natural dyeing with walnut leaves 09/28/10
53 Front porch spinning Creativity 10/23/10
54 Color Theory with digitaldurga 11/10/10
55 Color Theory part 2 11/10/10
56 Blending the Tertiary colors 01/10/11
57 Blending Hackle 01/29/11
58 Types of Fiber combs 02/14/11
59 Washing and combing 5 breeds 02/28/11
60 Spinners' single study 04/07/11
Forsyth product review
61 A new Wheel Majacraft Aura 05/07011
62 Black Welsh Mountain Clun Forest 05/17/11
63 Lock and fold spinning 06/02/11
64 Oogie McGuire interview BWM breed 07/22/11
65 A podcast for knitters who want to 08/20/11
become spinners
66 Learning the Aura and beaded yarn 08/21/11
67 Spinning Woolen 10/05/11
Special Episode Happy fourth Year YST 10/15/11
Promo podcast for The Spinners Journal 11/05/11
68 Interviews with two scholar spinners 11/16/11
69 Leicester longwool, lincoln longwool 01/07/12
spinning DVD review and Stitches East
70 Drum Carding projects 02/21/12
71 Digital Sheep 03/31/12
72 Support Spindles 04/28/12
73 Chatting with Fiber folks 05/26/12
74 Let the Spinning Begin 07/02/12
Tour de fleece 2012
75 The Wheel Keeps Spinning TdF12 07/05/12
76 Listen to your inner spinner TdF12 07/08/12
77 Is it rest day yet? TdF12 07/11/12
78 Two types of plying TdF12 07/15/12
79 How the fiber speaks to me TdF12 07/18/12
80 Fractal spinning and finished yarn 08/02/12
81 The finish line TdF12 08/07/12
82 California Red and combing CVM 08/16/12
83 Ryeland and Salish 09/17/12
84 Positive Spin YST on Stash naming 10/05/12
85 Five year anniversary podcast 10/31/12
86 Katahdan review and porch spin in 12/10/12
87 A Fresh Start Review of 2012 spinning 12/31/12
88 Exchanges, an angora spinning 01/27/13
exchange
89 Thin, thinner, thinnest, a froghair 02/04/13
spinning exchange
90 Plying with commercial yarns 03/16/13
91 The more I teach, the more I learn 04/26/13
92 Chain plying (navajo plying) 05/31/12
93 Preparing for TdF 2013 06/25/13
94 TdF13 day 1 and 2 07/02/13
95 TdF13 days 3 thru 5 07/06/13
96 TdF13 days 6 thru 9 07/09/13
97 TdF13 traveling with baby 07/19/13
98 TdF13 final report 07/30/13
99 Book Review Hand Designs for 09/09/13
Spinners and Knitters
100 Finishing yarn 10/20/13
101 Machine Washing alpaca 01/11/14
102 Spinning alpaca 01/30/14
103 Norfolk Horn 02/11/14
104 White faced Woodland 02/14/14
105 Portland fiber 02/18/14
106 Ravellenic spinning 02/22/14
107 Manx Loaghton and Hill Radnor 03/16/14
108 Dyeing Alpaca 04/24/14
109 Greencastle Fiber event 06/02/14
110 Ky Sheep and Wool Festival 06/25/14
111 Preparing for TdF14 07/09/14
112 TdF14 Team Painted Tiger 07/16/14
113 TdF14 Team Majacraft 07/21/14
114 TdF14 Team Farm Fiber Marketplace 07/26/14
115 TdF14 Team Support Spindlers 07/31/14
116 TdF14 Final recap 08/10/14
117 A Wool Gathering Yellow Springs Ohio 10/04/14
118 Spinailla 2014 11/07/14
119 Fortutous fleeces 11/27/14
Interview with Digitaldurga
120 Roc Day 2015 01/07/15
121 Wool Wash review interview with 02/03/15
Natalie Redding
122 Review of Norman Kennedy's DVD 03/26/15
123 Alpaca in the dyepots 05/16/15
124 Spin In General Chatter 06/30/15
125 TdF15 part 1 07/15/15
126 TdF15 part 2 07/23/15
127 TdF15 final update 08/03/15
128 Washing handspun yarn 09/13/15
129 Spinzilla 2015 Ashford spinning quill 10/22/15
130 This, that and daydreams spin in chat 11/26/15
131 New Year, New spinning 01/07/16
132 A Hand spun hat and a mystery yarn 02/17/16
133 Review of Craftsy, and more knitting 03/30/16
with hand spun yarn
134 Fiber purchases, state fair prep and 06/15/16
Tdf spinning plans
135 Pre TdF and a swap 07/03/16
136 TdF16 podcast 1 08/01/16
137 TdF16 podcast 2 08/15/16
138 TdF16 podcast 3 08/27/16
139 Ravellenics 2016 and State Fair 09/27/16
140 Spinzilla and Natural Dye mordants 12/02/16
141 Spinning New Year's resolutions 02/02/17
Book review Yarn.i.tec.ture
A Spinning Sabatical 03/10/17
142 Life Changes,Why Worry? 06/16/17
A conversation with my daughter
143 Counting Treadles for even plying 07/03/17
144 Dyeing with Lichens part 1 07/14/17
145 Dyeing with Lichens part 2 08/19/17
146 Spindle Crane review 10/01/17
147 Spinzilla 2017 Recap 11/02/17
148 Dyeing with Lichens part 3 11/21/17
149 Ten Years of Podcasting 01/25/18
150 Ravellenics 2018 03/28/18
151 Episode 151 Fiber Fairs 04/20/18

Ahhh, tis the season of freshly shorn fleeces. But what if your cupboard is already full?

If you have an answer, come to the Ravelry group and search for Yanrspinnerstales spin in. Join us there for the conversation.

A nice solution to at least organizing your fleece project is The Spinners Journal , a daily spinning book I created to sell. Your purchase supports the archiving of my past podcasts. Thank-You!

Ravellenics, for those that haven't heard the term, is an event hosted on Ravelry during the Olympics. There are events you can enter projects, and win digital medals. The rules state you start at the opening ceremony and finish by the closing ceremony.

I have done this many years now, every two years. Most years I do a spinning project, but the last two times I have done knitting projects with hand spun yarn.

This podcast talks about three of this years projects for Ravellenics, two completed and one still in progress.

It's true, I have been podcasting for 10 years now!

In the first part of today's podcast, I review the book The Weaving,Spinning and Dyeing book by Rachel Brown.

In the second part I give a little bit of the download statistics for the podcast, some listener's comments about spinning in their lives over the last 10 years, and my favorite and least favorite parts of spinning.

I was able to include music with this podcast, thanks for the website Free Music Archive . They have an archive on non traditional birthday music and I pulled the following songs from that:

Another year older by Jazzy-J

Singing Happy Birthday to you by BackyardMusic

It must be somebody's birthday by The Pendulum Swings

I mention a breed sampler shawl made by one listener, the pattern is The Dimpsey Shawl on Ravelry (you will have to be signed into Ravelry for the link to work)

Finally go you my blog and see the medal from Feedspot , for being named number nine in the top spinning podcasts!

Looking for the Spinners Journal? It's here at lulu.com. Thanks for supporting this podcast, with your purchase, and listening.

This podcast is the third on lichen dyeing and concludes the project for me. I talk about the ammonia extraction method and dyeing wool with the extract. I also tried a contact dyeing method on some silk and talk about that. The fiber is lovely and I am looking forward to spinning with it next year. The photo shows the corriedale roving dyed with the ammonia extraction method.

Need a special holiday gift, for a friend or yourself? The Spinners Daily spinning journal found on Lulu is a special present and helps support my archiving of all the podcast episodes. Thank you for your support!

Look for my group on Ravelry by searching for yarnspinnerstales spin in group. All are welcome, come and join the conversations.

Happy Spinning!

I had a wonderful week, focused on spinning as much yardage as I could. I talk about all those yards in this podcast, plus a few thoughts on spinning on the electric Roberta and also what to do about fiber with high vegetable matter in it.

Looking for a way to keep track of your spinning projects? I have created the Spinners' Journal to help you with that. It was done at Lulu.com, and is a reasonable 12.50 plus shipping. Your purchases help me pay the cost of keeping yarnspinnerstales podcasts archived. Thank-you!

If you have any questions or comments about this or any of the podcasts, join us at the group on Ravelry, Yarnspinnerstales Spin In.

Happy Spinning!

This podcast has a review of my experience using Akerworks drop spindle tool called the Sprindle Crane. They were a prize sponsor in the Tour de Fleece 2017 on Ravelry, and I had the very good fortune to win this prize!

Akerworks website for further information.

I promised a few links, here's the easiest to find on Youtube.

There is a difference between how the spinner in this video uses the spindle crane, and what I experienced. I did not get the twist to go past the plastic threader when I worked with it. I also used a hanging spindle instead of a supported spindle, although I do want to try the support spindle with it next.

You have to be signed into Ravelry before clicking this link, but once you are it will take you to the thread in my group for discussion of the spindle crane.

I have started the fun project of a lichen dye pot and in today's podcast I talk a little about the history of lichen dyeing, and how and where I collected my lichens.

There's also a TdF2017 update at the end of the podcast.

I had four books in my spinning library to use as references for this information.

The main sources were from the same author, Karen Casselman. The books are: Craft of the Dyer Colour from Plants and Lichens and Lichen Dyes The New Source Book both published by Dover Press.

Two other books that mention dyeing with lichens are:

Your Yarn Dyeing by Elsie G Davenport

Natural Dyes for Spinners & Weavers by Hetty Wickens

Today's podcast talks about how to achieve even, consistent 2 ply yarn by counting your treadle movements.

Near the end I do talk about the start of the Tour De Fleece and what I hope to spin during it.

If you want to join our discussions and sharing with the YST Team on Ravelry, the best way to find the group is to search under groups for Yarnspinnerstales Spin In. Hope to see you there!

Welcome to the newly redesigned web page. If you are looking for previous episodes, look in the upper right hand corner and click on episodes. The quickest way to the most recent and then later, is to click on 'category' and then podcasts. They will load with the new easier to use player.

In the podcast,after a sabbatical from spinning, I am glad to be back. I update the spinning and knitting projects from the past few months, and then have a lovely recorded conversation with my daughter, about why we as humans experience various emotions. We both agree that the meditative experiences of spinning, knitting and weaving are often a way to help in these times.

There is a saying in our family for many years: 'Life is too much with us now'. As it implies, I have to step aside from podcasting for a few months, while I deal with family life.

During that time, I am researching dyeing with lichens, and I hope to get some dye baths started. That will be the topic of the podcast, when I return.

Thanks for your patience and Happy Spinning!

This podcast closes the 2016 year, with details on my Spinzilla 2016 spinning. Since one of the fibers I spun during that was dyed with natural dyes and the mordants tin and alum, I did a bit of research on those mordants. I end this podcast with that discussion. These are links to some of the things mentioned in the podcast.

The original dye day for the columbia roving was Episode 52.

The Jacob roving I spun was from the Ross Family Farm in Pa.

One good blog post I referenced in the natural dye mordant discussion was written by Alpenglow yarns .

A second post I read and referenced is by Cheryl Kolander of Aurora Silk.

In the first part of this podcast I explain just what is this thing called ravellenics. Then I go into the details of what I did for the event.

First is spinning, and after that, the next knit with hand spun yarn project, the Oslo Shawl.

In the second part of the podcast, I talked about the seven items I took to my state's fair for the spinning category.

A few links for sources of the fiber I used to spin the yarns:

The Painted Tiger

Yarn Hollow fibers

Kundart Spindles The spindle shown on this website is exactly like the one I got!

Photos of what I entered in the state fair can be seen here .

Final podcast about what I did during Tour de Fleece this year. I talk about some yarn spun, including two breed studies, Romeldale and Racka. I also dyed two different shetland fleeces, and an unknown breed ewe lamb fleece.

The Romeldale fiber was purchased at DyedintheWool ,

The wash and dye product I used while dyeing is available at woolshampoo .

The shop I purchased the drum carder cloth from is no longer in business. However, there are other sources available on Etsy. Just got to that website and search from drum carder cloth.

To see photos of all of my TdF16 projects, sign into Ravelry first and then click this link.

This is the 2nd TdF16 podcasts, there will be one more.

I talk about washing alpaca fiber, dyeing shetland and lamb's wool fiber, and as my challenge day project, spinning banana fiber.

All of the links below are information I found on the internet about banana fiber.

Home processing (something so unavailable to most of us!) is shown in a youtube video by Rix Jennings.

Commercial processing (and very poor audio, sorry) is shown here.

A non verbal commercial processing video. It is long, but if you only have time for one video, I recommend it be this one.

A video of felted banana cloth being made.

I only found one blog that talked about banana fiber, it is Fiber of my Being. There's part 1 and part 2 .

Here's on crochet project I found for the yarn (lots of pop ups and ads, sorry).

Finally, Darn Good Yarn , shows banana yarn available on their website.

Let the spinning begin. I have the Tour de France on my DVR and fiber ready, it could only be the tour de fleece!

I do much more than spinning, as usual. I have alpaca blanket washing, fiber dyeing, a challenge fiber and challenge processing planned all during these three weeks.

This is the first of three podcasts relating to this year's Tdf.

All information on the sheep breeds that I review are from the book Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook by Deborah Robson and Carol Ekarius.

The Devon fiber was purchased at Laughing Lamb Fibers .

The 3D printed flat pack bobbins for spinning wheels are available at Akerworks.

It's tour time again, no not the spinning rock band, but the Tour de France. And that means Tour de Fleece is rolling too. In this podcast I give a synopsis of what I hope to accomplish during the next three weeks.

I also was in a wonderful fiber swap, and I talk all about the box I sent, and the box I got.

A few links for things I mention in this podcast:

My blog is here .

I will try a link to my Ravelry group , please be logged into Ravelry before clicking the link, then it should work. It is yarnspinnerstales spin in, if you want to search groups. It's a very good way to access a listing of past episodes, and I tell you how to find that in the podcast.

The Clouds of Luxury fibers came from Sericin on the Etsy store. You may have to special request the item.

I will be recording podcasts during the TdF but will not be releasing them until after the tour. This will give me time to do more of the spinning I want to do during the tour. See you in August!

In the first part of the podcast I fill you in on what Has happened in the last two months. I have spun some yarn, found some fiber that needs processing, and made some wonderful purchases (see links below)

I also talk about my plans to enter items in the State Fair , and some preliminary plans for the Tour de Fleece.

The last part of the podcast is about my recent knit with hand spun project the Kensington Steeked Pot by Gemma Pickford-Waugh. It is shown in the photo for this podcast.

The different fiber breed tops came from Laughing Lamb Fibers.

The blended rolags are from Fellview Fibres and can be found in their Etsy store .

If you are looking for the spinners journal, it can be found here .

This month's podcast has a review of Craftsy and also talks about my finished knitted with hand spun project and plans for the next project.

If you are looking to buy the Spinners Journal I made, it can be found here .

The fiber Three Feet of Sheep is from Frabjous Fibers. Google and buy it from your favorite vendor.

The shawl I plan to knit for Tour de Fleece this year is the Oslo Shaw l.

The pattern for the fingerless mitts I knit is Te Ara . You may have to sign into Ravelry to see this link.

The creator of the circular cable needle is Leslie Wind and her website is here .

My first completed project for this year of knitting with my hand spun yarn was a garter stitch hat made from a cabled yarn from a Jacob fleece. This was a true start to finish project, I bought the fleece raw, processed it, spun it and then knit the hat,

The inspiration for the hat came from the book HomeSpun HandKnit by Linda Ligon. The pattern was the garter stitch cap.

The second knitting project started in Jan 2016 was the Painted Sky Cowl provided free by KnittingFever. I am using a worsted spun 2 ply yarn I also made from the Jacob.

My blog can be found here.

Contact me with any comments (don't just talk to the podcast I can't hear you!) here or on Ravelry as Yarnspinnerstales.

In this podcast there is news about what I have done with spinning, carding and my spinning wheels over the last six weeks.

I also talk about another big sorting of my hand spun.

And finally the first project for the year of knitting with hand spun has been chosen.

A thank you to Jon Caspi for his music that I use in the opening theme song.

The Unraveling podcast can be found here .

Find my group on Ravelry by searching under groups for Yarnspinnerstales Spin In. Join us there for the discussions about spinning with hand spun and other topics.

The Spinners Journal that I published can be found here .

My blog is here .

Thanks for listening!

I have 8 years worth of podcasts, and it can be hard to find just the one you need. This list will help you. First look at the content to find what topic you want to hear. Then look at the date. On the left hand side of the website, there are archives by year and then the months under the year. Find the year and month of the podcast you want and click there. Then find the episode number and you should have the podcast on the specific topic you want. Enjoy!

Episode number Topic Date

1 Using Combs/Shetland 10/28/07
2 Spin In General Chatter 11/13/07
3 Raising Angora Rabbits 12/01/07
4 Christmas music only 12/16/07
5 Spinning Angora 01/18/08
6 Border Leicester and BFL 02/02/08
7 Skirting a Shetland Fleece 02/16/08
8 Cheviot and Corriedale 03/02/08
9 Washing a fleece 04/02/08
10 Finn and Perendale 04/22/08
11 Book reviews 05/09/08
12 Cotton Dyeing part 1 Chemical 05/30/08
13 Cotton dyeing part 2 Natural 06/01/08
14 Cormo and Montadale 06/20/08
15 Cotton prep and spinning 07/08/08
16 Romney and Targhee 07/31/08
17 Andean Ply, Fleece Picking 08/17/08
Spinning Bulky yarn
18 CVM and Maine Island Sheep 09/01/08
19 Wheels and how they work 09/16/08
20 Navajo Churro and Jacob 09/30/08
21 Felting a fleece, faking pelts 10/27/08
22 Alpaca 10/31/08
23 Drop Spindles 12/20/08
24 Spinning and Dyeing Silk 01/25/09
25 Cashgora 01/31/09
26 Woolen vs Worsted spinning 02/15/09
27 Tunis and Karakul 03/14/09
28 Dyeing wool Discolored fleece 03/30/09
29 Spaelsau and Icelandic 04/23/09
30 Pyling 04/30/09
31 Bamboo and tencel 05/16/09
32 Silk, Soy and Milk fibers 06/01/09
33 Dog hair, Spinning Designer Yarn 06/22/09
Review of Intentional Spinner
34 Carding and Blending fibers 07/07/09
35 Angora rabbits and the heat 07/31/09
Washing alpaca fiber
36 Spinning with a Charkha 08/21/09
37 Southdown,Polworth 09/13/09
Setting up a wheel to spin
38 Selecting a wool fleece 10/10/09
39 Selecting non wool fiber,storing fiber
An original ghost story 10/24/09
40 Spinning for a specific yarn 11/21/09
41 Discussing grist 11/29/09
42 Changing yarn size by adjusting 12/18/09
tension
43 Spinners block unlocking creative 01/20/10
juices
44 Fiber Fairs 04/05/10
45 Coopworth and Polypay 04/18/10
46 Spinning tools 05/08/10
47 Natural Dyeing book reviews 05/31/10
48 Planning a dye day 06/22/10
49 Carbonized bamboo TdF 07/12/10
history of wheels I own
50 Saran Wrap dyeing 08/14/10
51 Dyeing for specific colors 08/28/10
tertiary color study
52 Natural dyeing with walnut leaves 09/28/10
53 Front porch spinning Creativity 10/23/10
54 Color Theory with digitaldurga 11/10/10
55 Color Theory part 2 11/10/10
56 Blending the Tertiary colors 01/10/11
57 Blending Hackle 01/29/11
58 Types of Fiber combs 02/14/11
59 Washing and combing 5 breeds 02/28/11
60 Spinners' single study 04/07/11
Forsyth product review
61 A new Wheel Majacraft Aura 05/07011
62 Black Welsh Mountain, Clun Forest 05/17/11
63 Lock and fold spinning 06/02/11
64 Oogie McGuire interview BWM breed 07/22/11
65 A podcast for knitters who want to 08/20/11
become spinners
66 Learning the Aura and beaded yarn 08/21/11
67 Spinning Woolen 10/05/11
Special Episode Happy fourth Year YST 10/15/11
Promo podcast for The Spinners Journal 11/05/11
68 Interviews with two scholar spinners 11/16/11
69 Leicester longwool, lincoln longwool 01/07/12
spinning DVD review and Stitches East
70 Drum Carding projects 02/21/12
71 Digital Sheep 03/31/12
72 Support Spindles 04/28/12
73 Chatting with Fiber folks 05/26/12
74 Let the Spinning Begin 07/02/12
Tour de fleece 2012
75 The Wheel Keeps Spinning TdF12 07/05/12
76 Listen to your inner spinner TdF12 07/08/12
77 Is it rest day yet? TdF12 07/11/12
78 Two types of plying TdF12 07/15/12
79 How the fiber speaks to me TdF12 07/18/12
80 Fractal spinning and finished yarn 08/02/12
81 The finish line TdF12 08/07/12
82 California Red and combing CVM 08/16/12
83 Ryeland and Salish 09/17/12
84 Positive Spin YST on Stash naming 10/05/12
85 Five year anniversary podcast 10/31/12
86 Katahdan review and porch spin in 12/10/12
87 A Fresh Start Review of 2012 spinning 12/31/12
88 Exchanges, an angora spinning 01/27/13
exchange
89 Thin, thinner, thinnest, a froghair 02/04/13
spinning exchange
90 Plying with commercial yarns 03/16/13
91 The more I teach, the more I learn 04/26/13
92 Chain plying (navajo plying) 05/31/12
93 Preparing for TdF 2013 06/25/13
94 TdF13 day 1 and 2 07/02/13
95 TdF13 days 3 thru 5 07/06/13
96 TdF13 days 6 thru 9 07/09/13
97 TdF13 traveling with baby 07/19/13
98 TdF13 final report 07/30/13
99 Book Review Hand Designs for 09/09/13
Spinners and Knitters
100 Finishing yarn 10/20/13
101 Machine Washing alpaca 01/11/14
102 Spinning alpaca 01/30/14
103 Norfolk Horn 02/11/14
104 White faced Woodland 02/14/14
105 Portland fiber 02/18/14
106 Ravellenic spinning 02/22/14
107 Manx Loaghton and Hill Radnor 03/16/14
108 Dyeing Alpaca 04/24/14
109 Greencastle Fiber event 06/02/14
110 Ky Sheep and Wool Festival 06/25/14
111 Preparing for TdF14 07/09/14
112 TdF14 Team Painted Tiger 07/16/14
113 TdF14 Team Majacraft 07/21/14
114 TdF14 Team Farm Fiber Marketplace 07/26/14
115 TdF14 Team Support Spindlers 07/31/14
116 TdF14 Final recap 08/10/14
117 A Wool Gathering Yellow Springs Ohio 10/04/14
118 Spinailla 2014 11/07/14
119 Fortutous fleeces 11/27/14
Interview with Digitaldurga
120 Roc Day 2015 01/07/15
121 Wool Wash review interview with 02/03/15
Natalie Redding
122 Review of Norman Kennedy's DVD 03/26/15
123 Alpaca in the dyepots 05/16/15
124 Spin In General Chatter 06/30/15
125 TdF15 part 1 07/15/15
126 TdF15 part 2 07/23/15
127 TdF15 final update 08/03/15
128 Washing handspun yarn 09/13/15
129 Spinzilla 2015 Ashford spinning quill 10/22/15
130 This, that and daydreams spin in chat 11/26/15

A chatty podcast to close up the spinning year. I review a fiber fair, talk about drum carding and what's on my spinning wheels. Then after a bit of daydreaming, I have a plan for some of next year's projects.

There are no links to mention for this podcast.

I want to say thank you to all my listeners for being there over these last eight years of podcasting. I am truly thankful for every one! Looking forward to many more years of spinning together.

Happy Holidays to one and all, see you on Roc Day.

The Spinzilla report is actually the second part of the podcast. In the first part, I continue the review of using the Ashford quill spindle, using mohair, angora, hemp, bamboo and cotton.

A few links for things mentioned in the podcast:

Needle Junkies podcast has a link on their website

Spinzilla total yards this years was 5,246,497. See more details here .

Get your free pattern and yarn recommendations and help knit for Knitted Knockers at this website.

Fibers spun on the quill were from the following:

WC Mercantile

Sweet Pea Fibers

Mohair and More

Besides going over the spinning during the final days of the Tour de Fleece, I discuss several topics in detail.

First is my experience with spinning on a quill set up on my Ashford Traditional. A photo of the quill can be seen here . I also recommend searching Youtube for good videos if you plan to try this too. Here is one that shows a quick method for wrapping the single onto the cop.

Second I talk about spinning Suri alpaca, both on a drop spindle and a spinning wheel.

Last is a discussion of plying and one of my observations and ah ha moments.

I continue talking about my TdF spinning projects in the first part of this podcast. In the second part, I go over some tips and troubleshooting for an old Ashford Tradition spinning wheel.

The snippet of music today is Wild Mountain Thyme by Big Sea.

The fiber I started spinning on my Ashford wheel is from Chamomile Connection . Check out the website, she still has merino/seasilk listed. And Sheep Street fibers has a fun website to check out too. That is where I got the dyed Shetland fiber I am spinning.

I used this website for information about the seacell fiber.

It's that time again, Tour de Fleece errr France.

First update discusses what I have been doing during the first ten days of the tour. Although the main focus is alpaca, there is one raw fleece processing part too.

The spindle I am using to spin alpaca top came from Linda Dyak, formerly Grafton Fibers, now DyakCrafts .

The three feet of sheep fiber came from Frabjous Fibers.

The wool shampoo I used to wash the fleece came from Namaste Farm's product, found here .

There's a few odds and ends of old business at the beginning of this podcast, and then I talk about my trip to the Kentucky sheep and fiber festival in May.

The fiber I have been spinning is CVM batts from Wild Hare Fibers .

I could not find the April fool's joke emailed by the Woolery. Instead, take a look at their blog , it's really interesting.

The new designed drum carder by Majacraft can be seen here .

I must correct something in the podcast, the black merino fiber I got from Ohio Valley is dyed. It is listed here and all there other colors too.

You can find the Fiber Pusher podcast on her website.

And the Transient Wool Merchants podcast is on this website.

A fiber processing mill is in North Carolina, called Echoview .

And there is a grand opening of the store July 1 2015 for a fiber processing mill in Cynthiana Ky, called Heartfelt Fleece and Fiber.

I tackle yet more of my never ending stash of alpaca fiber and talk about using the wool shampoo to wash suri, and the wash and dye product for a white huacaya alpaca. These are products available from Namaste Farms and can be purchased here .

Music for the show is by Project Grand Slam and is called Spring Dance. Sadly the source for podsafe music. Musicalley, seems to have gone away. It just does not do anything when I go to the site, nor can I find any information about it. I will not link the group today, and certainly thank them publically for putting that music on the site for use. I will continue to investigate into this, but feel the time has come that it is no longer available as a place for listeners to support the musicians that had allowed their music to be listened to in podcasts. It has been wonderful to add music to the podcast over these past years, for I love music as much as spinning. All things change though, and new is always shiny and good.

This podcast has a review of the DVD titled From Wool to Waulking, with Norman Kennedy. Fulll of knowledge of the old ways of handling, spinning or weaving wool, this DVD is also good for new spinners just learning the craft.

The second part of the podcast is a chatty update of my life and spinning projects.

Music is from Musicalley . The haunting interlude music is by Keldarin and is called Gaelic Shores. The closing song is by John Torres and is titled Here in History.

If anyone is interesting in the video of the stitch I am using to crochet a blanket that I mention in the podcast, it can be found here .

There are two new products out for those of us that process raw fiber, DRB wool shampoo and the Wash and Dye. I had the opportunity to try both and loved them so much I contacted Natalie Redding of Namaste Farms, the source of these products for an interview. In this podcast, I talk to Natalie, via Skype. In the second part of the podcast I talk about my experiences using both products.

Here's a direct link to the wool shampoo website, where you can buy the products.

Other links for this podcast include: Namaste Farms and Fibery Goodness.

Music in the podcast is from MusicAlley .

The opening interlude music is Nano Flowers by The DJ's .

Deep Space Ocean provides Live Free.

I chose the closing song, Techno Canon by DanMan because it is a great blending of the new meets the old. There is so much of that now in spinning, the new fiber community members bringing improvements to our craft.

Rock day or Saint Distaff Day, Jan 7 is the spinner's New Year. I talk about that and my year's plans in this podcast.

Music is from Musicalley and has a new year theme.

Opening song is Happy New Year by Colie Brice

Closing song is It's a New Year's Day with Denise Moser .

Here is a nice website with information about Rock Day.

St Distaff Day, or the Morrow after Twelfth Day is a poem by Robert Herrick. It has been recorded on LibriVox here . I also read the poem in the podcast.

The Spinner's Journal is available on lulu.com and here is a direct link.

My daughter joins me, via Skype, to tell about her lucky find in fleeces and what she did with them. Then the story morphs into her experience dyeing silk with henna.

Music is from Musicalley and revolves around the theme 'lucky'.

AJ & The Frozen Tundra Band tells us It's Your Lucky Day Now.

Great Big Sea sings Lucky Me

Stavia closes the podcast with Lucky Day

First in the podcast, some thoughts on the wide variety of niche markets we have in this fiber world. Then I tell about my three Spinzilla projects and how I figured my yardage for submission to their total amounts.

There is more music in today's podcast, and it is from Musicalley

First interlude is from Space Agency and is called Godzilla.

Middle break music is from the FuMP , always a fun romp, and is also called Godzilla (yes just pretend it is really Spinzilla). Since this group has lots and lots of songs, find this specific one by searching Godzilla on Musicalley.

The closing song is by Tracy Jane Comer and is Drive for Miles. I think of it as Spin for Miles since that is one of the measurements used by Spinzilla. Lovely song, whether you are driving or spinning.

This is a 10 minute podcast that I will release on the first of every month (more or less). It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me and how to get your very own spinner's journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast. I have decided that to avoid that in this podcast, I would put all this information here and release it once a month. If you need the information, just listen in. If you don't, you can just wait for the next podcast.

Happy spinning!

A Wool Gathering fiber event is at Young's Jersey Dairy in Yellow Springs Ohio every year on the third weekend in Sept. I had the fun of attending this year, and give a review of my trip.

Lots of links for things I mention in the podcast:

A Wool Gathering website

TNNA website

Spinzilla website

Spinzilla FAQ

Spinzilla rules for measuring yarn

Woven Thoughts blog

Fiber Optic Yarns

Noah's Landing Yarns

National Custom Spinworks

Ed the Wheel Healer can be contacted at erowe132 @ aol. com

Today's podcast music is from musicalley and is by Jon Caspi and the First Guns. My thanks to them for letting me use this song as the intro to the podcast.

This is a 10 minute podcast that I will release on the first of every month. It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me and how to get your very own Spinners' Journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast. I have decided that to avoid that in this podcast, I would put all this information here and release it once a month. If you need the information, just listen in. If you don't, you can wait for the next podcast.

Happy spinning!

This is a 10 minute podcast that I will release on the first of every month. It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me and how to get your very own Spinners' Journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast. I have decided that to avoid that in this podcast, I would put all this information here and release it once a month. If you need the information, just listen in. If you don't, you can just wait for the next podcast.

Happy Spinning!

Beta 10/09/07

Episode 1 Using Combs / Shetland 10/28/07

Episode 2 Spin In 11/13/07

Episode 3 Raising Angora Rabbits 12/01/07

Episode 4 Christmas Music 2 episodes 12/16/07

Episode 5 Spinning Angora 01/18/08

Episode 6 Spin In Border Leicester and BFL 02/02/08

Episode 7 Skirting a Shetland Fleece 02/16/08

Episode 8 Spin In Cheviot and Corriedale 03/02/08

Episode 9 Washing a Fleece 04/02/08

Episode 10 Spin In Finn and Perendale 04/22/08

Episode 11 Book Reviews: Your Handspinning/ Creative Spinning, Weaving & Plant Dyeing/ The Encyclopedia of Handspinning 05/09/08

Episode 12 Cotton Dyeing Part I Chemical Dyes 05/30/08

Episode 13 Cotton Dyeing Part II Natural Dyes 06/01/08

Episode 14 Spin In Cormo and Montadale 06/20/08

Episode 15 Cotton Spinning/Preparation Techniques 07/08/08

Episode 16 Spin In Romney and Targhee 07/31/08

Episode 17 Andean Plying, Picking a Fleece, Spinning Bulky Yarn 08/17/08

Episode 18 Spin In CVM and Maine Island Sheep 09/01/08

Episode 19 Wheels: How they work 09/16/08

Episode 20 Spin In Navajo Churro and Jacob 09/30/08

Episode 21 Felting a Fleece 10/27/08

Episode 22 Spin In Alpaca 10/31/08

Episode 23 Drop Spindles 12/20/08

Episode 24 Spinning and Dyeing Silk 01/25/09

Episode 25 Spin In Cashgora 01/31/09

Episode 26 Spinning Woolen vs Worsted 02/15/09

Episode 27 Spin In Tunis and Karakul 03/14/09

Epidose 28 Dyeing Wool / Discolored Fleeces 03/30/09

Episode 29 Spin In Wheels at the Woolery / Spaelsau and Icelandic 04/23/09

Episode 30 Plying 04/30/09

Episode 31 Bamboo and Tencel 05/16/09

Episode 32 Silk, Soy and Milk 06/01/09

Episode 33 Spin In Dog Hair / Spinning Designer Yarns and The Intentional Spinner 06/22/09

Episode 34 Carding and blending fibers 07/07/09

Episode 35 Spin In Helping Angora Bunnies Beat the Heat / Washing Alpaca Fiber 07/31/09

Episode 36 Spinning with a charkha 08/21/09

Episode 37 Spin In breed reviewed: Southdown, Polworth Setting up my wheel before spinning 09/13/09

Episode 38 Selecting a wool fleece part 1 10/10/09

Episode 39 Selecting non wool fiber to spin, storing fiber, original ghost story 10/24/09

Episode 40 Spinning for a specific type of yarn 11/21/09

Episode 41 Discussing grist 11/29/09

Episode 42 Changing the size of your yarn by adjusting tension 12/18/09

Episode 43 Spinner’s block, unlocking the creative juices 01/20/10

Episode 44 Fiber Fairs 04/05/10

Episode 45 Spin In Breeds Coopworth and Polypay review 04/18/10

Episode 46 Spinning Tools 05/08/10

Episode 47 Book Reviews Jenny Dean’s Natural Dyeing Books also American Native Plants 05/31/10

Episode 48 Planning a Dye Day 06/22/10

Episode 49 Carbonized bamboo, Tour de fleece projects History of the wheels I own 07/12/10

Episode 50 Dye Day 1 Dyeing with saran wrap 08/14/10

Episode 51 Dye Day 2 Dyeing specific colors, the tertiary colors 08/28/10

Episode 52 Dye Day 3 Natural Dyeing with walnut leaves 09/28/10

Episode 53 Front Porch spin in Creativity 10/23/13

Episode 54 Color Theory with Digitaldurga 11/10/10

Episode 55 Color Theory part 2 11/10/10

Episode 56 Blending the Tertiary colors 01/10/11

Episode 57 Blending Hackle 01/29/11

Episode 58 Different types of fiber combs 02/14/11

Episode 59 Washing and combing five different sheep breeds (lock washing in roaster pan) 02/28/11

Episode 60 Spinners’ single study, and Forsyth products review 04/07/11

Episode 61 A New Wheel Majacraft Aura 05/07/11

Episode 62 Rare breed review, Black Welsh Mountain and Clun Forest 05/17/11

Episode 63 Lock and Fold Spinning 06/02/11

Episode 64 Interview with Oogie McGuire Black Welsh Mountain Sheep breeder 07/22/11

Episode 65 A Podcast for knitters who want to become spinners 08/21/11

Episode 66 Learning curve for the Aura and beaded yarn 08/21/11

Episode 67 Spinning Woolen 10/05/11

Special Episode - Happy Fourth Year, YST! 10/15/11

Promo podcast for Spinners Journal, a how to use it podcast 11/05/11

Episode 68 Interviews with two scholar spinners 11/16/11

Episode 69 Four reviews (Leicester longwool, Lincoln wool, a spinning DVD and my trip to Stitches East) 01/07/12

Episode 70 Drum Carding Projects 02/21/12

Episode 71 Digital Sheep 03/31/12

Episode 72 Support Spindles 04/28/12

Episode 73 Chatting with the Fiber folks 05/26/12

Episode 74 Let the Games Begin (Tour de Fleece 2012) 07/02/12

Episode 75 The Wheel Keeps Spinning (TdF 2) 07/05/12

Episode 76 Listen to your Inner Spinner (TdF 3) 07/08/12

Episode 77 Is it Rest Day yet (TdF 4) 07/11/12

Episode 78 Two types of plying (TdF 5) 07/15/12

Episode 79 How the Fiber Talks to Me (TdF6) 07/18/12

Episode 80 Finished Yarn and Fractal Spinning (TdF7) 08/02/12

Episode 81 The Finish Line (TdF8) 08/07/12

Episode 82 Ravellenic review part 1 Breed review California Red and combing CVM two ways 08/16/12

Episode 83 Ravellenic review part 2 Breed review Ryeland and Salish 09/17/12

Episode 84 Positive Spin: YST on Stash naming 10/05/12

Episode 85 Five Year Anniversary podcast 10/31/12

Episode 86 Katahdan review and porch spin in 12/10/12

Episode 87 A Frest Start Wrap up of 2012 spinning 12/31/12

Episode 88 A Good Exchange Review of a past angora exchange 01/27/13

Episode 89 Thin thinner thinnest: Review of a froghair spinning exchange 02/04/13

Episode 90 Plying with commercial yarns 03/16/13

Episode 91 YST The more I teach the more I learn 04/26/13

Episode 92 Sometimes you make a yarn sometimes you don’t: Chain plying 05/31/12

Episode 93 Preparing for TdF 2013 06/25/13

Episode 94 TdF13 Days one and two 07/02/13

Episode 95 TdF13 days three through five 07/06/13

Episode 96 TdF13 days six through nine 07/09/13

Episode 97 TdF13 Babies and bobbins:traveling and spinning 07/19/13

Episode 98 TdF13 Final report 07/30/13

Episode 99 Book review Hand Designs for Spinners and Knitters 09/09/13

Episode 100 Finishing Yarn 10/20/13

Episode 101 Machine Washing Alpaca 01/11/14

Episode 102 Spinning Alpaca 01/30/14

Episode 103 Norfolk Horn fiber review 02/11/14

Episode 104 White faced Woodland fiber review 02/14/14

Episode 105 Portland fiber review 02/18/14

Episode 106 A day off and Spinning Misc Ravellenic spins 02/22/14

Episode 107 Final British rare breeds review manx Loaghton and Hill Radnor

03/16/14

Episode 108 Dyeing Alpaca 04/24/14

Episode 109 Greencastle Fiber event review 06/02/14

Episode 110 Ky Sheep and Wool festival review 06/25/14

Episode 111 Preparing for TdF14 07/09/14

Episode 112 TdF14 Team Painted Tiger 07/16/14

Episode 113 TdF14 Team Majacraft 07/21/14

Episode 114 TdF14 Team Farm Fiber Marketplace 07/26/14

Episode 115 TdF14 Team Support Spindlers 07/31/14

Episode 116 TdF14 Final recap 08/10/14

This is a 10 minute podcast that I will release on the first of every month. It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me and how to get your very own spinner's journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast. I have decided that to avoid that in my podcast, I would put all this information here and release it once a month. If you need the information, just listen in. If you don't, you can just wait for the next podcast.

Happy spinning!

TeF14 is over but the updates continue. This last one is for Team Support Spindlers.

Fibers used are from the following sources:

Moonwood Farms Dyed milk

Wonders Mohair dyed adult mohair

WeloveThor dyed merino

Spindles used are from these sources

Sistermaide

Royale Hair

Today's music is Mountains End by Phillip Woo . It can be found on MusicAlley

The Tour de Fleece continues, and I review another of the Ravelry Teams that I have spun with during the Tour de France.

Music is from MusicAlley . The beginning interlude is from djoc and is called Blink and you will miss them. The end song is Twinkle Black Sheep by Johnny Only

You can find me on Ravelry as Yarnspinnerstales, and the group for this podcast is called Yarnspinnerstales spin in group. See you there!

Today's podcast is an update of my Tour de Fleece spinning for the team Painted Tiger. The website for this dyer of fiber and yarn is here.

The fiber I am spinning is a Portuguese wool top explained by Ashland Bay blog .

Therefore, tigers are the theme of the music, found on MusicAlley. The interlude music is by Sinfonoa Electronique and is Tiger on the Loose II. The end music is by Briareus and is called Tigers.

My blog can be found here.

This is a 10 minute podcast that I will release on the first of every month. It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me and how to get your very own Spinners' Journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast. I have decided that to avoid that in this podcast, I would put all this informnation here and release it once a month. If you need the information,just listen in. If you don't,you can just wait for the next podcast.

Happy spinning!

I went to the Lexington Ky Sheep and Fiber festival in May, and this podcast is a review of that great trip. Here is a link to the vendor list .

A few specific links for vendors I mention in the podcast:

The Ross Farm Fibers Dyed in the Wool

A Yarn Well Spun Rock and String Creations

I mentioned the video for Dirty Jobs, where Mike goes to Ohio Valley woolen mill.

The Ravelry pattern is the Ten Stitch Blanket by Frankie Brown. The link may or may not take you to it, Ravelry requires you to be signed in to see it.

Finally music for today's podcast is from Music Alley and is by Rachel Barton Pine . It is a violin medley of Scots tunes.

I forgot to hit publish! Sorry about that. So here it is on June 2nd. The promised podcast is below this one on the webpage.

This is a short podcast that I will release on the first of every month. It has all the information about how to find specific episdoes, where to contact me and how to get your very own Spinners' Journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast. I have decided I would put all this information here and release it once a month. If you need the information, just listen in. If you don't, you can just wait for the next podcast.

Happy spinning!

The Greencastle Fiber Event is held every April, second weekend. I went this year and this podcast talks about what I saw.

I promised many links, here they are:

General vendor listing

Ohio Valley Fibers

Little Barn fiber (website seems unattended right now)

Sistermaide

Susan's Fiber shop

A description of the Ashford blending board

Super Glide picke r

Sheep Street Fibers

The Woolery

The Fiber Closet

Fiber Optics

Cascade Farms

Lace Maker The Bedford College of Lace Making Stephen Bowman

Music is from MusicAlley . it is a version of a classic, Scarborough Faire by Brobdingnagian Bards

This is a 10 minute podcast that I will release on the first of every month. It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me and how to get your very own Spinners' Journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast. I have decided that to avoid that in this podcast, I would put all this information here and release it once a month. If you need the information, just listen in. If you don't, you can just wait for the next podcast.

Happy spinning!

Alpaca comes in many lovely natural colors, but also does very well in the dye pot. I talk about two ways that I dyed some alpaca fiber with acid dyes in this podcast.

If you would like a good source for dyeing alpaca with natural dyes, check out www.jennydean.co.uk

I will have pictures of the dyed alpaca on my blog

Music in today's podcast is from Musicalley with spring color theme. The interlude music was TPIA Spring Colors and the ending song was Hint of Dawn by Kendra Springer.

I review the last two breeds from the sampler purchased from Hilltopcloud etsy store. The breeds are Manx Loaghtan and Hill Radnor. To see more pictures of this fiber and yarn go to my blog .

Music for the show continues the snow theme used during this series, in honor of the Winter Ravellenic event. Today's song is from Music Alley and is by Emile Menasche. It is call Watercolor Winter.

This is a ten minute podcast that I will release on the first of each month. It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me and how to get your very own spinners' journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast. I have decided that to avoid that in the YST podcast, I would put all this information here and release it once a month. If you need the information, just listen in. If you don't, you can just wait for the next podcast.

Happy Spinning!

Still spinning as part of the Ravellenic2014 event but I took a break and did a few different yarns. I also talk about putting a new drive band on your spinning wheel.

Music is from Music Alley and today's song Winter Empire is by Dan-O

A mention of a previous podcast in this one is referring to Episode 73 , when I interviewed some fiber folk.

Photos can be found on my blog

The review of British rare breeds continues with one of the current rarest beeds, the Portland. I focus some on worsted and woolen spinning with this sample.

To understand better just how your spinning wheel works, try listening to episode 19 How does that wheel work.

Music is from Music Alley and today's song, Winter is by Sara Spade .

Photos for this fiber can be seen on my blog

This is a 10 minute podcast that I will release on the first of every month. It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me, and how to get your very own spinner' journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast. I have decided that to avoid that in this podcast, I would put all this information here and release it once a month. If you need the information, just listen in. If you don't, you can just wait for the next podcast.

Happy spinning!

A new year brings a new fiber experiment, alpaca fiber washed in a washing machine. This episode tells all about that, and my fiber new year's resolutions in a YST while I spin.

Music is from Music Alley and includes a bit from Atomsplit with the Resolutions six feet long song, and the closing song from J.E.L.L.i with a not so traditional version of Auld Lang Syne. My theme song is provided by Jon Caspi .

Photos for this episode can be found on my blog.

This is a 10 minute podcast that I will release on the first of every month. It has all the information about how to find specific episodes, where to contact me and how to get your very own Spinners' Journal.

I listen to many podcasts and get tired of hearing the podcaster's information over and over before we get to the podcast. I have decided that to avoid that in this podcast, I would put all this information here and release it once a month. If you need the information, it is here. If you don't you can just wait for the next podcast.

Happy spinning!

Beta 10/09/07
Episode 1 Using Combs / Shetland 10/28/07
Episode 2 Spin In 11/13/07
Episode 3 Raising Angora Rabbits 12/01/07
Episode 4 Christmas Music 2 episodes 12/16/07
Episode 5 Spinning Angora 01/18/08
Episode 6 Spin In Border Leicester and BFL 02/02/08
Episode 7 Skirting a Shetland Fleece 02/16/08
Episode 8 Spin In Cheviot and Corriedale 03/02/08
Episode 9 Washing a Fleece 04/02/08
Episode 10 Spin In Finn and Perendale 04/22/08
Episode 11 Book Reviews: Your Handspinning/ Creative Spinning, Weaving & Plant Dyeing/ The Encyclopedia of Handspinning 05/09/08
Episode 12 Cotton Dyeing Part I Chemical Dyes 05/30/08
Episode 13 Cotton Dyeing Part II Natural Dyes 06/01/08
Episode 14 Spin In Cormo and Montadale 06/20/08
Episode 15 Cotton Spinning/Preparation Techniques 07/08/08
Episode 16 Spin In Romney and Targhee 07/31/08
Episode 17 Andean Plying, Picking a Fleece, Spinning Bulky Yarn 08/17/08
Episode 18 Spin In CVM and Maine Island Sheep 09/01/08
Episode 19 Wheels: How they work 09/16/08
Episode 20 Spin In Navajo Churro and Jacob 09/30/08
Episode 21 Felting a Fleece 10/27/08
Episode 22 Spin In Alpaca 10/31/08
Episode 23 Drop Spindles 12/20/08
Episode 24 Spinning and Dyeing Silk 01/25/09
Episode 25 Spin In Cashgora 01/31/09
Episode 26 Spinning Woolen vs Worsted 02/15/09
Episode 27 Spin In Tunis and Karakul 03/14/09
Epidose 28 Dyeing Wool / Discolored Fleeces 03/30/09
Episode 29 Spin In Wheels at the Woolery / Spaelsau and Icelandic 04/23/09
Episode 30 Plying 04/30/09
Episode 31 Bamboo and Tencel 05/16/09
Episode 32 Silk, Soy and Milk 06/01/09
Episode 33 Spin In Dog Hair / Spinning Designer Yarns and The Intentional Spinner 06/22/09
Episode 34 Carding and blending fibers 07/07/09
Episode 35 Spin In Helping Angora Bunnies Beat the Heat / Washing Alpaca Fiber 07/31/09
Episode 36 Spinning with a charkha 08/21/09
Episode 37 Spin In breed reviewed: Southdown, Polworth Setting up my wheel before spinning 09/13/09
Episode 38 Selecting a wool fleece part 1 10/10/09
Episode 39 Selecting non wool fiber to spin, storing fiber, original ghost story 10/24/09
Episode 40 Spinning for a specific type of yarn 11/21/09
Episode 41 Discussing grist 11/29/09
Episode 42 Changing the size of your yarn by adjusting tension 12/18/09
Episode 43 Spinner’s block, unlocking the creative juices 01/20/10
Episode 44 Fiber Fairs 04/05/10
Episode 45 Spin In Breeds Coopworth and Polypay review 04/18/10
Episode 46 Spinning Tools 05/08/10
Episode 47 Book Reviews Jenny Dean’s Natural Dyeing Books also American Native Plants 05/31/10
Episode 48 Planning a Dye Day 06/22/10
Episode 49 Carbonized bamboo, Tour de fleece projects History of the wheels I own 07/12/10
Episode 50 Dye Day 1 Dyeing with saran wrap 08/14/10
Episode 51 Dye Day 2 Dyeing specific colors, the tertiary colors 08/28/10
Episode 52 Dye Day 3 Natural Dyeing with walnut leaves 09/28/10
Episode 53 Front Porch spin in Creativity 10/23/13
Episode 54 Color Theory with Digitaldurga 11/10/10
Episode 55 Color Theory part 2 11/10/10
Episode 56 Blending the Tertiary colors 01/10/11
Episode 57 Blending Hackle 01/29/11
Episode 58 Different types of fiber combs 02/14/11
Episode 59 Washing and combing five different sheep breeds (lock washing in roaster pan) 02/28/11
Episode 60 Spinners’ single study, and Forsyth products review 04/07/11
Episode 61 A New Wheel Majacraft Aura 05/07/11
Episode 62 Rare breed review, Black Welsh Mountain and Clun Forest 05/17/11
Episode 63 Lock and Fold Spinning 06/02/11
Episode 64 Interview with Oogie McGuire Black Welsh Mountain Sheep breeder 07/22/11
Episode 65 A Podcast for knitters who want to become spinners 08/21/11
Episode 66 Learning curve for the Aura and beaded yarn 08/21/11
Episode 67 Spinning Woolen 10/05/11
Special Episode - Happy Fourth Year, YST! 10/15/11
Promo podcast for Spinners Journal, a how to use it podcast 11/05/11
Episode 68 Interviews with two scholar spinners 11/16/11
Episode 69 Four reviews (Leicester longwool, Lincoln wool, a spinning DVD and my trip to Stitches East) 01/07/12
Episode 70 Drum Carding Projects 02/21/12
Episode 71 Digital Sheep 03/31/12
Episode 72 Support Spindles 04/28/12
Episode 73 Chatting with the Fiber folks 05/26/12
Episode 74 Let the Games Begin (Tour de Fleece 2012) 07/02/12
Episode 75 The Wheel Keeps Spinning (TdF 2) 07/05/12
Episode 76 Listen to your Inner Spinner (TdF 3) 07/08/12
Episode 77 Is it Rest Day yet (TdF 4) 07/11/12
Episode 78 Two types of plying (TdF 5) 07/15/12
Episode 79 How the Fiber Talks to Me (TdF6) 07/18/12
Episode 80 Finished Yarn and Fractal Spinning (TdF7) 08/02/12
Episode 81 The Finish Line (TdF8) 08/07/12
Episode 82 Ravellenic review part 1 Breed review California Red and combing CVM two ways 08/16/12
Episode 83 Ravellenic review part 2 Breed review Ryeland and Salish 09/17/12
Episode 84 Positive Spin: YST on Stash naming 10/05/12
Episode 85 Five Year Anniversary podcast 10/31/12
Episode 86 Katahdan review and porch spin in 12/10/12
Episode 87 A Frest Start Wrap up of 2012 spinning 12/31/12
Episode 88 A Good Exchange Review of a past angora exchange 01/27/13
Episode 89 Thin thinner thinnest: Review of a froghair spinning exchange 02/04/13
Episode 90 Plying with commercial yarns 03/16/13
Episode 91 YST The more I teach the more I learn 04/26/13
Episode 92 Sometimes you make a yarn sometimes you don't: Chain plying 05/31/12
Episode 93 Preparing for TdF 2013 06/25/13
Episode 94 TdF13 Days one and two 07/02/13
Episode 95 TdF13 days three through five 07/06/13
Episode 96 TdF13 days six through nine 07/09/13
Episode 97 TdF13 Babies and bobbins:traveling and spinning 07/19/13
Episode 98 TdF13 Final report 07/30/13
Episode 99 Book review Hand Designs for Spinners and Knitters 09/09/13
Episode 100 Finishing Yarn 10/20/13

Episode 101 Machine Washing Alpaca 01/11/14 Episode 102 Spinning Alpaca 01/30/14 Episode 103 Norfolk Horn Fiber review 02/11/14 Episode 104 White faced Woodland fiber review 02/14/14 Episode 105 Portland fiber review 02/18/14 Episode 106 A day off and Spinning 02/22/14 Episode 107 Final British Rare Breeds review Manx Loaghton and Hill Radnor 03/16/14 Episode 108 Dyeing Alpaca 04/24/14 Episode 109 Greencastle Fiber Event review 06/02/14 Episode 110 Ky Sheep and Wool Festival 06/25/14 Episode 111 Preparing for TdF14 07/09/14 Episode 112 TdF14 Team Painted Tiger 07/16/14 Episode 113 TdF14 Team Majacraft 07/21/14 Episode 114 TdF14 Team Farm Fiber Marketplace 07/26/14 Episode 115 TdF14 Team Support Spindlers 07/31/14 Episode 116 TdF14 Final Recap 08/10/14