Wool n" Spinning Radio

01:06:56

The Mammoth of Fibre Preparation

Wool n" Spinning Radio ·

2025/02/07

Dear Spinning Circle,Today. On Wool n’ Spinning Radio. Rebecca and Rachel sat down to chat about a mammoth in the room, which is fibre preparation. It has become such a major focus of what we talk about in this community and other handspinning communities, that we wanted to talk about it. While fibre preparation is a huge source of excitement and motivation to pull things out and prepare fibres, including those amazing fleeces many of us have in our stashes, it is also a time consuming and often

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00:40:22

Meaghan of Bramble Ridge Hand Dyed Yarns

Wool n" Spinning Radio ·

2025/01/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Today. On Wool n’ Spinning Radio. Rebecca and Rachel sat down with Meaghan of Bramble Ridge Hand Dyed Yarns, based out of Mission, British Columbia, Canada. Meaghan has been dyeing up a storm in the background, creating our next iteration of Breed Blends and Colour Study fibre for us to spin & create with! Thank you to Meaghan for this opportunity to work with you, support your small business and create with the community at large!Meaghan has generously offered a discount code

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01:07:48

The Whys & Hows of Big Projects

Wool n" Spinning Radio ·

2024/12/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Welcome back to another Radio episode! This month, Rebecca sat Rachel down to quiz her about working through longer projects. It came from a discussion back in August at Knit City Calgary 2024. For context, let's set the table: Back in 2019, you were struggling with the idea of how to justify the time and effort to put into a really big spinning project to weave an heirloom piece. Do you remember that feeling? What is the Biggest Project you’ve ever completed? How long did it

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01:05:35

Spinning Certificates with Rebecka Roy

Wool n" Spinning Radio ·

2024/11/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Rebecca sat down with long-time active community member, Rebecka Roy, known as Becca and @bethy40 on Slack. Becca has been working on her Spinning Certificate of Achievement, from the Association of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers, throughout the past four years. With the recent discussions within the Wool n’ Spinning community about Spinning Certification programs, we thought it would a great opportunity to sit down and hear about Becca’s experience.I hope you enjoy our

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01:13:38

Origins, Spindle Spinning & More with Maxwell Stein

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2024/10/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Rebecca and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Maxwell Stein of @maxwillspin (IG) over the past month. We chatted about his origin story, spindle spinning and teaching, as well as how his music influences his making. I hope you enjoy our conversation - I would love to have Max back on the show. If you have any questions you'd like to ask him, please post them below so that I can address them next time he appears!Wool n' Spinning Radio (previous episodes) hereWool n’

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01:32:55

Festival Prep, Carding & Wool with MellyKnits (Part II)

Wool n" Spinning Radio ·

2024/08/01

Dear Spinning Circle,This month is the follow-up to last month's episode with Melissa Goulet of MellyKnits. We refer back to that episode a few times so be sure to follow the links below to listen to that episode as well.Episode 107 | Putting Wool back in the Limelight with MellyKnits hereI hope you enjoy our dive into wool, getting started with first-time drum carding and beginning to delve into sheep breeds. For those new to spinning wool, remember that there are roughly four classifications of

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00:43:23

Exploring Sheep & Fleece Barns

Wool n" Spinning Radio ·

2024/06/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Today on the Radio show, Rebecca and I sat down to talk about the sheep and breeds that she came across at Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival recently. We chat a little bit about getting fibre preparation done, some of the road blocks to getting things started and more.Patreon Post hereThis was a stream-of-consciousness at 6am Pacific time - I hope you enjoy this off-the-cuff episode!For more on Spinning Sheep Breeds and getting further down the rabbit hole of various

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01:18:43

Putting Wool Back in the Limelight with MellyKnits

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2024/06/01

Dear Spinning Circle,This episode of Wool n' Spinning Radio has been a long time coming - Melissa and I have been trying to connect for a while, seeing each other at our local Knots & Hops each month, bumping into each other at Knit City and Fibres West throughout the years and so much more. It was a pleasure to sit down with her and chat about her business and love of wool - her enthusiasm is unbelievably infectious. You can't help but feel sucked in by her love of the process from her favourite

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00:26:49

Preparing to Travel

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2024/05/01

Dear Spinning Circle,This month, on Wool n' Spinning Radio, Rebecca answered a bunch of questions from myself about preparing for a long trip. As many of you know, Rebecca and her family will be on Sabbatical from their work in Nunavut for 5 months. I wanted to understand more about how she prepared for the making she would be doing while away!Patreon Link hereHere are the rough questions I asked Rebecca about her preparations to travel:1. What were you thinking about when you were first preparing

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01:09:12

Journeying to Intentional Spinning

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2024/04/01

Dear Spinning Circle,This month, Rebecca and I sat down to discuss a slightly different topic that we don't often explore, which is about our journey to intentional spinning. Rebecca asked some incredibly thoughtful questions to ground our discussion and I would love to hear some of your thoughts - please leave your comments here!Link to Patreon post hereThe Journey of Intentional Spinning:1. Can you describe your journey toward becoming an intentional spinner? What was your spinning like when you

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01:13:54

The Importance of Every Day Creativity

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2024/03/02

Dear Spinning Circle,This month we are joined by Suzanne Reyes, a long-time member of our community who had the opportunity to work on a year-long project called The Importance of Every Day Creativity. We had a wonderful conversation about the depth and breadth of creativity in our every day lives. She has presented this to faculty, students and now shared her story here! Enjoy!More is available on Patreon hereThank you to Suzanne for taking time today to chat with us about her project - it was very

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01:02:12

Our Making in 2024

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2024/02/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Another month of Wool n' Spinning radio! I can't believe we are really into 2024 now! This is the second part (Part I here) of Rebecca and my conversation about our goals and thoughts about 2024. We recorded towards to the end of January so we have some initial reflections about the year, how it started and momentuum on projects.Patreon Post herePlease take a moment to share with us your thoughts on one or all of the questions we were contemplating ourselves in this episode -

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01:06:35

Welcoming 2024!

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2024/01/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Welcome 2024! I hope this finds you happy, healthy & excited for the new year. I know here in my home, we have had a very quiet week, watching a couple of movies, soccer games & attending a hockey game (very Canadian of us). The kids had never been to a hockey game before so that was fun sharing that joy with them!Today, Rebecca and I sat down to chat about the upcoming year here at Wool n' Spinning. The overarching theme of the next two years will be Sarah Anderson's The

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00:50:56

Reflecting on the Past Year - 2023 Wrap-Up

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2023/12/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Today. On Wool n’ Spinning Radio. Rebecca and I sat down to reflect on the year, 2023. We started with a reflection on the highlights and standouts from the year. We talk about unexpected challenges, namely for Rachel throughout the year. Next, we talk about the community. There were some memorable interactions that really resonated with us as we interacted with you guys throughout the year.Patreon hereRebecca asked about some behind-the-scenes insights about how Rachel manages

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01:05:20

Creativity & Energy Levels

Wool n" Spinning Radio ·

2023/11/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Welcome to another episode of Wool n' Spinning Radio - I am so pleased to be able to produce these episodes with Rebecca (@rebbiejaye). Rebecca took the lead on this month's episode, which was really fun for me as I was able to sit back and participate in a different way than I normally do - what a pleasure!To learn more, please head to the original Patreon post hereTo help ground the conversation, here are some of the 'primer' questions that Rebecca asked us to think about to

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00:43:09

CoreSpin Along

Wool n" Spinning Radio ·

2023/10/01

“Corespinning creates an amazing yarn that can replace a conventional spun yarn.“ -Crystal HesserFor full shownotes with photos, please visit hereTo share your spinning, we have a couple of places to share:Slack Channel: #texturedyarnRavelry Group: CoreSpin Along hereWe have talked about corespinning in the community previously:51 Yarns SpinAlong: Corespun, Coils & Supercoils Vlog51 Yarns SpinAlong: Corespun, Coils & Supercoils PDFHow I Spin: Corespinning & AutowrappingTips to Get Started:Don’t give

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01:06:33

Celebrating Natural Dyeing with ColorStorms

Wool n" Spinning Radio ·

2023/09/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Today. On Wool n’ Spinning Radio. Rebecca and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Rebecca’s mom, Linda Jennings, the dyer and curator of Color Storms. She is based in Maryland, USA, and created a small dye studio in her home. Specializing in natural dyeing, Linda creates amazing gradient sets, plays with various dye stuffs that she is able to harvest locally, while also using some extract powders to be able to dye the variety of colours available to us in nature. Her

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00:59:36

Celebrating Handspun Yarn with Crystal Hesser

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2023/08/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Today. On Wool n' Spinning Radio. Crystal Hesser is a well-known face around Wool n' Spinning but there are some who haven't had the absolute pleasure in meeting her, so I wanted to spend some time today introducing her to you. Throughout Tour de Fleece, she has been posting daily photos of her yarns as she spins them on her wheel, supported spindles and shares her ideas along the way.Crystal shares her inspiration process, why spinning textured yarns is so important, and how to

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00:41:35

Year of Colour to Date

Wool n" Spinning Radio ·

2023/07/01

Today. On Wool n’ Spinning Radio. Rebecca and I sit down to check in with one another as the half-way point of our Year of Colour is reached. We discuss how the two tracks, namely Spinning Purls and The Wool Circle, has been to facilitate, as well as our own growth in our understanding of colour. We start to talk about Rebecca’s Deyapalooza that is coming this summer and even into next year. I’ve included some of the photos of the Colour Wheel experiments that we have been working on. You can see

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01:01:51

Exploring Clothing Philosophies (Part II)

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2023/06/01

Dear Spinning Circle,Today, on Wool n' Spinning Radio, Rebecca & Rachel sit down to further explore our individual and ever-evolving clothing philosophies.Exploring Clothing Philosophies (Part I) hereRebecca and I started off by picking up where we left off in Part I of our conversation with Rebecca sharing what’s changed with her daily clothing evolution. For images of Rachel's clothing that she discussed, please check them out here.Thank you for joining us today. Please consider leaving a review

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