Louet’s new unbelievably tiny portable powerhouse is also finally a flyer lead scotch tension wheel, robust enough to fit almost every need! Read the details in my real-world test report.

Leslie’s sweater yarn is now complete, and shipped off to her! I’m left with three partly-full bobbins of single-ply yarn, which I’ll finish up and keep for myself, and two batts that I expect I’ll spin very fine, again, for myself. By completion, about 45 hours total were spent on the yarn, from dyeing and […]

A few weeks back, I embarked on an exciting custom spinning project for a longtime friend, who wrote me to say she was ready to start knitting the sweater of her dreams, and did I have the right yarn for it by any chance? I wrote her back immediately telling her I insisted she let […]

Today I’m working on sock blends, in large part to work my way through the pile of bombyx silk seconds that I wound up with from recent silk dyeing sessions. Basically, any time that a silk fails my quality control for being saleable as top, I put it on the blending pile — it’s still […]

Well, the Abby’s Yarns site is finally up and running, and what with the Franquemont Fibers eBay store stable and reasonably full of inventory, I’m shifting gears from production work to web work for a little bit. Little by little, I’m gathering up, editing, and putting online many things I’ve written on the subject of […]

First you take this: (coopworth/alpaca blend from Jehovah Jireh Farm) and then you make it into this handspun single-ply yarn: Which then in turn gets plied with this iridescent commercial flossy stuff for a binder: And then it looks like this: Then, ply it one more time with the binder, in the opposite direction from […]