T Stands for Spinning and Fibers

  We are approaching our last T for Tuesday in the month of February. I am ready for March-as Spring will be arriving. I am so ready, although here in this area it can bring allot of strong winds with tornadoes.  I am writing this post early Sunday evening and we are all bracing for very high winds coming in tonight.

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  If interested, in my previous post I shared photos of the fibers I got in the mail for spinning-they are all soft and wonderful.

  I have been spinning most every day this past week. It has been too chilly or raining to work outdoors.

   I have spun up quite a lot of this lovely tweed. I have enough on my spindle to fill up this niddy noddy and then spin almost another full spindle. I had just a little bit of that pretty brown, so added this merino-bamboo green tweed to the same niddy noddy. My spinning is finally improving-although I don't get those very fine spun yarns-however I do like this size of yarn to use as the weft in my weaving so I can really see the yarns. (the weft is the one you wind on to a shuttle and hand weave with that) I feel I have finally progressed to an advanced beginner spinner. My yarn is still not totally the same through out-but that's ok for my weaving now.

I also spun up allot of this very nice white wool 

      I have a full niddy noddy  now These need to get sprayed down with water-let dry and then I repeat the process. This will set the twist 

    information here about a niddy noddy 

 I will dye this white with my left over black walnuts that I dried a couple years ago when I  made the ink. Should give me a lovely brown.

It was a bit late in the day today, but I wanted to play with my blending board. I have not done that since my last trip to Fiber U.  I will need to watch some you tube videos this week as I wasn't able to get the roving off all in one piece. I think I added a bit too much fibers.

Below are tools to make the roving-you choose the size hole and pull the fibers through to make a roving that you spin into yarn. Of course I couldn't buy just one smiles-These are called Ditz All handmade by craftsman that I bought at different times at Fiber U The bear and the buffalo are by the same artisan

I bought this buffalo first I love it-but this has a couple very sharp points on it so I don't use this one often

I thought I would look for a video now to share with you too, on how to do this-ahhh I see what I was doing wrong now She is calling this Dizz and from the video I did not have too many fibers down I just wasn't doing it right.

I ended up with short pieces but that's ok-anxious to see how the colors spin up

 You can see my Yellowstone cup with green tea, and and my Ice drink-which is carbonated water no sugars with flavors

  This is a ranch oak coffee table that was my parents. Two sides pull up to make larger-this sits in front of the couch and then also in front of the tv-I have books piled up on this table along with what ever craft I am working on.

My husband has been asking for homemade pancakes for breakfast. I add fresh blueberries, and we still have maple syrup from Pennsylvania that a friend gifted us years ago. From the gift of a gallon we are now down to less that a quart My coffee in the back, as this plate is my gluten free version-they turned out sooo good no wonder he has been requesting these pancakes-I forgot how good these are. smiles

I bought this book back when it came out in 1970. This is my all time favorite bread book. I used to make all of our breads before I found out I had celiac. This has the pancake recipe in it

And my coffee was made in my French press I figured out a really easy way to clean out the loose grounds-fill up with water and pour through a fine strainer-so much easier and faster this way

That's it from me this week. Stay warm and safe 

  We have a dove pair enjoying the seeds now-perhaps they remember from last year

Happy T and New Week