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I live in Maine and we are zone 5, so we do not get muscadines. Around here, many people make jelly from dandelions and rose hips. I have not tried them out, but I do make blueberry jam from wild blueberries that grow on our property. Love your videos!

Beautiful jam! Love muscadines jelly,jam! Thank you and you have beautiful little helpers.

from Gerry- I never heard of muscadines. I make a zucchini-pineapple jam with strawberry Jello as pectin. Thanks for sharing. God bless.

This was really interesting! I am in the UK and don't know how successful I would be at growing my own indigo plants (I would maybe need a greenhouse...), but I would so love to try. I want to try natural dyeing anyway so maybe I should start with something my locally grown first :) Did you manage to work out why your first year's attempt wasn't successful?

Hey, Aleatha! I remember you from the Fun In The Sip fiber event held in Vicksburg, MS. I bought your variety box, a pouch, and some roving. I highly recommend your products. So glad to see you on TH-cam! I subscribed ❤️ Looking forward to future content.

I’ve seen folks begin drafting the fiber as they are rolling it off their carder. Knitting while watching your video.❤

I'm knitting yellow cardigans for my 3-year-old granddaughter, her doll, and her upcoming baby sister, who will be born in a month. Rose picked out the color of yarn (her first visit to a yarn store) and the bright green buttons (her first visit to a JoAnne). She's very excited that she, her doll, and her baby sister will all have matching sweaters, and I personally hope I never have to knit a yellow cardigan again! I very much enjoyed knitting along to your fiber adventures, which I basically know nothing about. I'd love to see the sample yarn that you spin from one of the rolags, because I just have no sense of what it might look like. Thanks for the lovely evening!

not crafting right now but i'm watching this to wind down after some intense therapy. you have a very soothing && pleasant voice :) recently i've been drawing more && making bead bracelets - a very relaxing task

I could listen to drum card wool all day! 🤤😌❤

Very Christmassy!

I tawt I taw a rat at 25:00 ish.

Were your hands pruney after this?

I am in CA, support spindling some Nube roving from malabrigo while watching 🎉

Thanks for all ur amazing videos 📹 ur techniques are informative and always enjoy your process ❤

This was a nice video to "craft-a-long with. I'm spinning from deep stash today. Two braids of purple BFL from Green Mountain Spinnery that I bought years ago. Your batts are beautiful!

Very helpfull❤

So neat how many times you can use that same bath. Thanks for sharing 😊

Hello! I'm a fellow spinner and have dabbled in dyeing naturally. I look forward to watching more of your videos!

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I thought it was whole wheat did not expect the stock of wholesome too ✨

Thanks for the inspiration! I have some romney that is too fragile to spin but will be perfect for felting. This looks like a great little project for this wool.

from Gerry- Wow! You sure spun a lot. I, too have a lot of fiber hanging around. I like your thoughts about spinning single so you can get through the pile. Since I also dabble in weaving, I can do that because a single is stable in the weave. Thank you for sharing and have a blessed day.

I started spinning a little over a year ago. The first worries I had once I got the actual spinning more or less down was whether to ply or not to ply, how to ply and how to finish the yarn, whether singles or not. Let’s call it a “now what?” kind of series of moments. Especially since I immediately gravitated towards lace weight yarns. It took watching a whole lot of videos before hitting a few explaining how to finish singles. Shocking seems to be the way to go for singles and for delicate, extremely thin plied yarns. Generally I never thwack, I prefer snapping. Thank you for mentioning it’s best to keep an eye on the level of felting. It helps to increase the amount of ties within the skein, and to keep them on the loose side. To get out as much water as possible safely, it can help to wrap the wet skeins in a cloth (a piece of an old sheet, a towel…) by rolling them into a ‘sausage’. Spread out the cloth. Lie a skein on top at one end so that it forms a flat ‘O’. Cover with another layer of cloth. Roll up. If there’s length of cloth left over and you’ve got another skein, repeat. Once you’ve got a ‘full’ cloth sausage, load it in your spin dryer or washer and spin it. The strands won’t rub against one another as much and won’t risk felting to one another as much. Remove, shake loose, if needed very gently snap again, hang to dry. Little tip against moths: rub a drop of lavender oil or tea tree oil on your hands and run the finished skein through your hands. It’ll leave a very minute amount of the oil on the skein and moths hate it. Store in a container to which you added a few bay leaves, they repel moths as well. Eucalyptus is a good choice too. I also like lavender, tea tree, eucalyptus and/or bay leaf for loose fibre, braids and knits.

I started spinning a little over a year ago. The first worries I had once I got the actual spinning more or less down was whether to ply or not to ply, how to ply and how to finish the yarn, whether singles or not. Let’s call it a “now what?” kind of series of moments. Especially since I immediately gravitated towards lace weight yarns. It took watching a whole lot of videos before hitting a few explaining how to finish singles. Shocking seems to be the way to go for singles and for delicate, extremely thin plied yarns. Generally I never thwack, I prefer snapping. Thank you for mentioning it’s best to keep an eye on the level of felting. It helps to increase the amount of ties within the skein, and to keep them on the loose side. To get out as much water as possible safely, it can help to wrap the wet skeins in a cloth (a piece of an old sheet, a towel…) by rolling them into a ‘sausage’. Spread out the cloth. Lie a skein on top at one end so that it forms a flat ‘O’. Cover with another layer of cloth. Roll up. If there’s length of cloth left over and you’ve got another skein, repeat. Once you’ve got a ‘full’ cloth sausage, load it in your spin dryer or washer and spin it. The strands won’t rub against one another as much and won’t risk felting to one another as much. Remove, shake loose, if needed very gently snap again, hang to dry. Little tip against moths: rub a drop of lavender oil or tea tree oil on your hands and run the finished skein through your hands. It’ll leave a very minute amount of the oil on the skein and moths hate it. Store in a container to which you added a few bay leaves, they repel moths as well. Eucalyptus is a good choice too. I also like lavender, tea tree, eucalyptus and/or bay leaf for loose fibre, braids and knits.

Wondering if I left my fermenting too long. It does not smell good at all - not sweet. Should I discard and start over?

That's quite the feet! It's amazing how much can get done in such a short space of time. I missed the boat with TDF, I am very new to spinning, but I think I have started my own belated version of it. Thanks for sharing your washing technique for singles, very useful :)

What a delightful way to start my day! (I also learned that garlic can grow all winter long and be harvested in the spring!) This was relaxing and inspiring at the same time! Thanks for sharing your lovely family!

I have been thinking about trying felting but really wanted to focus on bags, rugs etc as opposed to needle felting figures, this is a great tutorial for a first go! Thanks for sharing

Fun project! Thanks for the excellent instructions.

I love this detergent recipe. I’ve been using it for years and I think it actually cleans the clothes better.

I always wondered why the strawberry was attacked to the tomato, lol. Thank you :)

My yarn untwists when I let go of it… I don’t know what I’m doing wrong :(

And most importantly, spinning, knitting, etc - can bring us all closer to God - the Creator of all that goes into fiber arts!

Beautiful!

Very interesting. It is fascinating to see how simple it can be to achieve something so unique. I am wondering how much dye would come out if you put the leaves through a wheat grass grinder/juicer? If you could put the dye into a quill pen and draw directly on the fabric. Although it does look like it would be fun tapping a pattern into the fabric with a hammer. I am wondering what the soy milk treatment does and how it works on the fabric? Thank you for another fascinating video, cheers.

There is nothing more fulfilling than making your own clothes and/or fabrics. You will appreciate it even more because of the time, work, creativity and energy you've put in it, and for nature who made it all possible.

Excellent tutorial! Thx - even though I'm 77+ years old, I envy your husband - the lucky beggar - having such a lovely and talented wife and partner. I knit - a lot - still! Have 2 wheels that I don't use and a few spindles. Thanks again and God Bless you and yours!! 💐

I can't find your store is there a link?

Had heard bay leaves may help keep crisp. So the natural bacteria are already on the cukes and dont add any like with yogurt or cheese?

Nice carder. The bat looks like a treat to spin good job

You don’t need two water softeners. Washing soda will suffice. It’s 10x as soluble as borax. Borax is not a degreaser. How about dissolving it in hot water and adding bacon grease or cooking oil? Shake well. Note the absence of any change. How hard was that? 5 oz of soap washes over 100 loads, you claim. 5/100=0.05 oz of soap per load. A paper clip weighs 0.05 oz. Your concoction is cheap because it’s so diluted. Mainstream detergents are 15%-20% surfactants, which is why they clean better. You get what you pay for, lady. This stuff is no bargain, given its unsuitability for use in modern washers or in cold water. Soap hasn’t been used to wash laundry for over 70 years. It’s obsolete. Expect results comparable to washing with plain water, with the exception that fabrics will become fouled with deposits of soap scum over time. At least you admit that you’re both ignorant and apathetic when it comes to this subject. That’s helpful for viewers to know.

Hello. thank you for this video. can you please write , what do you put to raise the ph , because i cannot understant?

I remember that vintage fabric it is quite beautiful. And your stay is lovely . Great work and a lovely garden!

Very fascinating to see the origin of indigo dye. Something you could try on next season's crop, putting the leaves in a muslin bag, or just a flat sheet folded to fit into your container, to filter out all the leaf matter at once. Also you could hang the bag over the container to let all the liquids in the leaves drain out. I am wondering if you could use an aquarium air pump to aerate the solution. It sure seems like it takes a lot of vigorous agitation to activate the reaction. And when you decanter the clarified liquid you could use a piece of clear tubing like wine makers do so as to not disturb the sediment on the bottom. I hope that these ideas are of some help on your next batch. I am most curious to see the outcome of your experiment. Are you you going to be making the items that you intend to dye? Good luck to your endeavors, cheers.

Osage and Cochineal have been my dyes of this summer! I have some Cochineal living on just one cactus in my yard right now.

I love pink and green as a colour combo!

Fangirl club for Abby Cox ❤

Do you not have to wear gloves to protect your hands?

I love the black/blue romney yarn😍.

Enjoyed your video. Thank you for all the effort it takes to produce a video like this.