#Spinning yarn

[thypandatetor]

TO HELL WITH ALL CURRENT PROJECTS, I GOT SOFT MAIL:

Time to spin and knit me a peach!

My dearest @fossilfibers made the discord our own existential peach colorway since we try to see how many screaming peach stickers we can find when we get new friends lol

[pastelispunx]

Now, I'm about to say something sacrilegious. I'm thinking of painting my Ashford Elizabeth.

Her stain job is slightly off and it Bugs me. I don't use her as much as I should and I want her to be a jaw dropper.

Now I'm debating doing a paint job similar to those below:

First from here and next from here.

Now unfortunately I love magnolia home colors, but I get Ace Hardware to match it on non magnolia bases so I don't pay those people.

Color for base of the wheel???? I'd also stencil it with folk designs. Put a lil Mokosh sigil on there too somewhere. Just to really make it mine.

Now the poll: am I crazy to paint something I paid 800 for? Or do I yolo it and paint it bc it is mine and it will spark joy?

[shannonpurdyjones]

Short sample clip because Tumblr is being a butt and refusing to upload the full video without crashing (hellsite my beloved and beloathed)

Here's the link if you want to see the full in-hand spinning demo video with captions (you don't have to subscribe or download anything to watch...I mean it's lovely for me if you do subscribe obviously, but don't let Substack bully you. It's a link. You can open it with no strings, no matter what they say lol.)

More about the textile history inspiration behind my historical fantasy novel Wyrd Weaving below the cut!

When I first conceived of the idea that is now becoming Wyrd Weaving, an historical fantasy novel set between Northumbria and Svealand in the tumultuous early 9th century, I only knew two things for certain. I knew I wanted to write a story centering the lives of women, queer people, and gender-nonconforming people in the 800s. So often stories set in the “Viking Age” center only the pursuits of men (wealthy men especially), and I wanted to dig for what other stories were buried there, waiting to be told. I also knew without doubt that fiber arts would somehow comprise a significant portion of the story’s magical realism elements.

I’ve knitted since my late teens, and have harbored and interest in all sorts of fiber arts for even longer than that. When I decided to get serious about writing a story centering the lives of medieval women (in Europe primarily, though several other unique period cultures factor into the story as well), I knew I had to do a deep dive into historical spinning and weaving. Women at all levels of society spent more time on aspects of cloth production than any other chore during this period, yet arts like spinning and weaving are almost never shown in novels, movies, or TV set in the early Middle Ages.

That wasn’t going to fly for Wyrd Weaving, a story inspired by the countless forgotten fiber artists who quite literally wove the history of our society. This first short video about my (mis)adventures in historical textile research gives you a glimpse at how and why I learned in-hand or “twiddle” spinning, the style of spinning prominent in early 9th century northern Europe. Enjoy!

[vintage-sweden]

Anna Forsvik, 1870-1957, Sweden.

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Earth Tones ~

[allonsybadwolf]

Days 7-12! Halfway done! I wasn't a huge fan of the three grey days in a row this week, but they're all beautiful yarns so I can't really complain. Truly having a blast with this fiber advent, fingers crossed my adhd ass can keep up the momentum.

I'm averaging ~100 yards per skein so I should have around 2500 yards at the end of the month. Might knit the weirdest sweater with a very confusing fiber array 😅

[roboticchibitan]

I'm curious about something. Most of my personal friends who spin yarn are primarily knitters. And I'm wondering if that's a trend or if it's just my personal sample pool bias. Because to me it seems like crocheters are less likely to learn to spin but I'm not sure that's actually true. So if you're a spinner, please answer my poll. If you're a fiber artist please spread this around so it leaves my personal sample pool.

[gugglebug]

Handspun yarn baby!!!!

Beach colours 🌊😎

I'm obsessed with the way this turned out, AND it looks so pretty knit up!!!!!

[betta-be]

How on earth am I supposed to cope with the knowledge that I'm spinning yarn the same way people did thousands of years ago, there's a poem in that somewhere ok.

Here's examples of ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HEIROGLYPHS and a WHOLE ASS GREEK POT depicting the same way of spinning yarn I do (last picture) like how am I NOT supposed to get emotional to this ok

[sewambitious]

People that spin yarn, particularly weaving weight yarn, are too powerful. What did you sacrifice on the fiber alter to have that patience and skill? Your fingerprints?!

[thypandatetor]

I got this peach braid from @fossilfibers some time ago (time is fake especially when life is stressful) and I just finished today! My ✨emotional support peach✨

Progress post here!

[padawansuggest]

You know you into yarn when you have headcanons about what spindles characters would particularly like, what they prefer to do with the yarn, what type of wheel spinner they are, and who has 17 projects going on at once (Anakin) vs who’s gonna focus almost entirely on one project as they go through thought spindle spinning a fine yarn, plying and washing enough of it for a blanket, immediately sticking it on the loom, and weaving a particularly intricate pattern (Obi-Wan) vs who’s the ‘I add the knots of silk and locks so that I can live in the moment and let chunks come out when they need to’ (as if I even have to say it, it’s Qui-Gon)-

ANYWAYS. I actually love yarn and think that yarn craft should be more in fics but that’s sorta like how lots of chefs and bakers make a lot of foodie fics like it’s nice but. Everyone eats. Not enough people care about Scottish spindles. Obi-Wan has 7 Scottish spindles and like 8 Turkish ones so he can make a blanket’s worth of yarn in a single go without having to unwind them and ply right away. Qui-Gon likes supported spindles and a traditional wheel. Anakin designs and makes his own electric spinners, electric yarn counters, and electric cone winders. And then he knits Padme shawls. Qui-Gon crochets blankets and keeps leaving them in the creche or outside random apartments in the temple. Obi-Wan weaves. Anakin spent 5 hours learning how to dye fiber in Padme’s favorite colours, made an electric wool carder to make batts of them, spent a solid 15 hours spinning enough for a massive shawl in lace weight yarn for his wife, knit her one, and then went back to his ADHD project hopping.

I have ideas!!!!!!

[dilatorysloth]

IT'S SO FLUFFY!!!

Those times when u can't quite understand you made this yourself. With your own hands. I wanted to try proper thicc yarn, and fluffy, and lofty, and all things not the thinner too hard yarns I made since I picked up spinning again (and tbh I kinda made back when I spun more, too). So. I'm so stupidly proud of this?? Look! That's just 77grams yet it is a great big chunk of a skein! Good going, me :') (62.25m, so, ~81m/100g)

One of those where I just cannot catch the colours with my shitty phone camera. Very rough brown once badly felted brown wool, torn apart and carded with leftovers of other stuff.

Post soaking and whacking and didn't have patience so I blowdried it, it's not quite as thick, but way more even and still so bouncy. I'm squishing it. A lot.

I almost can't knit it now. It is more soft than I thought the main wool had any capacity for. Rough, but not like a kitchen scrubber anymore. I mean to just knit a rug/blanket for the cats to sleep on, but now I don't know :p

[vintage-sweden]

Spinning, Sweden.

[ezekiellsplayground]

The moffs insisted that I needed to do something with all the spindle singles. Gosh they were right, I have filled sooo many spindles & some bobbins. Mind you, there is some plyed yarn there that just needs finishing.

Raykur & Sybil made by @homemadehorrors