13/6/2020 Crowing Hen Farm COVID-19 Safety Plan
2/6/2020 How to ship a carded batt?I want to know the best way to ship carded wool batts so that the fibres stay lofty and easy to draft. So I did some experiments. A batt is the result of preparing the fibre on a drum carder. It can be a giant drum carder like they have in a fibre mill, or a tiny one like mine. Not that I mind tiny. To me, it's just the right amount for what I'm doing now and I'm hoping my carding adventures will earn my way towards a bigger, better, bolder machine. Click "read more" on the right to ...
26/5/2020 reviving my etsy shopTo be brutally honest, I never paid much attention to my Etsy shop. It's there if people buy stuff, that's cool. I might go through a phase once or twice a year where I take more photos and list stuff, but over the last 13 years, the number of hours I've put into improving my shop is pitiful. Until this year, most of my sales have been wholesale, but with the uncertainty ahead and being stuck at home on the farm, I finally had the time and the need to increase my Etsy sales. Click "read more" on the right to ...
My favourite yarn to spin and most popular in the shops are something I call Singles Boucle. I learned this technique from the book The Intentional Spinner, and it's one of the most popular yarns to sell at the local shop. It's also one of my favourite yarns to spin as it requires minimal fibre prep and is like combining pying and spinning all in one action. For this tutorial, I borrowed an e-Spinner Super Jumbo. Lat's face it, I'm not much of an e-Anything, but having a wheel with huge bobbins, massive yarn guides and orifice, and can spin at a quick speed! This e-Spinner Super Jumbo is tailor made for spinning this kind of yarn. Here's how you spin boucle singlesClick "read more" on the right to ...
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