I will admit that I prefer long staple fiber everyday.

I wish I could tell you how warm this hat is!!

A quick video to show you how I clean my dog fur in preparation to spin it into yarn. Enjoy!!

I hope you like it.

Turns out video editing can be really time consuming! I hope you like!

This is the link to my blog post about how I clean and prep my chiengora! The fiber came from a dog named Bailey!

Sorry for the long abscence but I was in the wind for a while as we have now "officially" moved across the county (again). I am enjoying living in New York and have been slowly getting around

After a nice soak and fulling my project sweater is ready to have steeks crocheted into it in preparation for steeking. I am very satisfied with how soft my sweater is post soaking and fulling so I am

Digging through my yarn stash I found another yarn save from my favorite art reuse store in Berkley, CA. After pulling out my handy food dye color chart to get the green I want, I tossed in the yarn! While

After a couple of attempts at a crochet steek I finally got it done. Then a deep breath and snip snip! Now to learn the cast on for the button band.

I am in love the with the city of Kingston, NY! This small eclectic town has an awesome maker's energy/vibe running through it. On another walk around the place we spotted another building used as a canvas.

The sweater is done and waiting for me to steek. The next question I have to ask is if I want to use blue, green or metallic bronze coloring for the button band. Why can't I decide?!

Doing some test fulling on my sweater swatch. Once this is all dry I can see how it reacts to steeking! The soak in the knitting wash has already done wonders for the feel of the wool and some of the VM

I love 3D printing! these are parts of 3D print which will result in a new yarn swift. I can't decide if the next print will be a loom or a yarn winder. I will post photos when the print is done and assembled.

There is way to much veggie matter in this sweater so far. I hope I will be able to shave, pick or wash out most of it. Other than that I am loving the color variation in this wool. I am very excited to

Deciding to card some more fiber I pulled out some more wool, silk and a couple of everything-went-in-this mini batts to make another fractal batch of rolags. This adds up to about 7 onces of fiber (scarf!)

As today is local yarn store (lys) day it seemed right to get and play with fiber. This batch is a blue, grey and black blend of fiber my wife picked out so that I can knit her a hat with the resulting

With my blending board unusable right now I got the next best thing. I am already going through my fiber stash. This year's handspun2hat will rock!!

This sweater is coming along nicely. 7 more inches and I will be done with the body of this piece. I now need to find something that I can use to get rid of some of this vegetable matter. Once this is

The VM in this yarn is amazing but it is working out to becoming a great outdoor sweater. I love the color variation in this wool. No idea what type of sheep this came from but I am thinking Shetland.