Leesa here... yay glad you like them international postage has never been so hard lol first time sending to the EU and well there is definitely room for improvement. Looking forward to when you spin them!
Those are such lovely packages! 😍 I hope you are having just as much with Tour De Fleece 2024 as I am having. So far I’ve already clocked almost 5 hours and 3/4 of spinning. I didn’t realise I spin so much every day until I started keeping track. 😅
Happy TdF! Wow! I’d love for you to be my SecretSanta! What a fabulous fiber collection, plus your cards. I hope your recipient loves all the fiber you prepared and sent, and all the care you put into it.. I think you will love spinning the John Arbon fiber. Their blends are so much fun to play with on the wheel. Enjoy! harpingJanet
Hey Jente. It's fun watching this today when your other secret Santa will go on a long trip to europe. It's not as beautifully prepared as yours so. i might still make a little video for you as well. You kept me company by nervous packing everything i might have forgotten for my trip. Enjoy tour de fleece
As an Aussie I was very amused by your package, as I have both john arbon and Tarndie polworth in my (fairly small) fibre stash. I have plans for both of them and can't wait to spin them up 😊
Oh Jente it was so lovely watching you receive and open your parcel - your excitement was a thing of beauty and so was that wool 😍. I wish we could see the reactions of the lucky lucky person that receives your gift. You are gonna have an amazing TDF 🤗Let the games begin !!!!
Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️ Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast. I love what you chose for your Secret Santa, for TDF. Just a side note, john Arbon Textile is based here in England, so the Secret Santa from Australia has indeed been very "International ".🐨🐨 I hope you and your Patreons on Discord have a Wonderful TDF 🚲🥰🐑 Happy Spinning Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big "Fleecey" Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🐑🐑🐑🐑🫂🫂🫂🫂🐑🐑
@@MijnWolden Hi Jente, I hope you and Dries are both OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️ Yes you was sent twice across the globe,. 🤣🤣🤣 It's probably been on a sight seeing trip to get to you. 🌞🌞 I think it's going to be close on to 2 weeks to get from here to Australia and then to you, could even be longer. 🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣 Hope you have a Wonderful TDF 🌞🚲🎡🐑 Happy Spinning Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big "Fleecey " Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🐑🐑🐑🐑🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂 Give Dries my love too xxxx ❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂
Wish I had watched this before recording my video for Wed 😅 I mentioned you but didn't know how to pronounce your name, now I am excited because I do, only a little late 🤭 Have fun with your fleece. BFL is a common go to here and very lovely. I have not spun polworth yet.
OMG I have of course seen the altar piece by the Van Eyck brothers but that was befor I got into sheep and spinning and I never thought about what breed it might be! That's so cool that it is an actual recogniseable breed, and not just a "generic sheep shaped object"! Those two braids you got look absolutely beautiful, Im curious to see what you make of them! And your own package also looked great, I love the cards you made. And I just have to share this with someone who will appreciate: I spent last weekend as a medieval reenactor in a museum, and they have a working great wheel! So I spent most of the time there spinning on it, which was such a cool experience!
@@MijnWolden It's the Prehistorisch Dorp in Eindhoven, so it's doable from Belgium depending on where you live. During the summer they have the Ambachtenweekend and the Textielweekend, that's when the chances are best that there is someone there who knows how to use it and can let you try it out. (I'll be there again in August. If you want to, i can tell you when I'll be there and I can let you try it)
@raevynwoods9403 I am in Flemish Limburg. There is a Road going straight to Eindhoven Passing through my city. I have in the past even sent in my resume to work there... So it is very doable 😁
@@MijnWolden woahhh that is cool. You're probably closer than me then, I have to travel for almost 2 hours to get there (car is a bit quicker than public transport but I don't have one)!
I'll be spinning in public at my local yarn store where I teach spinning to celebrate the store's 30 anniversary and this fall during the middle of tour de fleece. I have to decide what I'm going to spin. Maybe some Finnish Landrace fleece that I have dyed and am combing at the moment.
Wow Tarndie wool! You will love their Polwarth, I bought some raw fleece from there a couple of years ago. It's divine! A lot of popular merino crosses originate from this part of Victoria.
@@MijnWolden Mostly (75%) Merino bloodlines with Lincoln (25%). The difference between the hand feel of Corriedale and Polwarth is quite significant, but they are both Merino/Lincoln crosses. Merino might be fine wool, but they don't have great carcass weights and suffer more than the English breeds from footrot. So, crossing Merino with these sturdier and more resilient breeds makes for quality dual purpose sheep that can be grazed much closer to the coast, where the rainfall is quite similar to Belgian conditions.
That is so sweet. One day I might be lucky enough to try Belgian milk sheep and Flemish sheep fiber in the United States. I’m assuming postage is pretty horrible.
probably, but I think the main issue would be to get it clean enough to be accepted in customs. Can't have any foreign bodies like seeds or dead bugs in there...
Wat een feest! Beide mooie pakketjes met wol. Veel spin plezier! Had je deze swap zelf georganiseerd? Voor volgend jaar wil ik graag weer eens mee doen met een swap. ( of rond kerst)
I would love to do a swap with you but I know it would not get through Australian customs they are very strict which is quite frustrating at times I know the people that do import fibre spend months getting it approved and the appropriate documentation always remember this when items are sent to Australia or New Zealand
Even fibre that has been dyed and spun into wool can catch AQIS (Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service)'s eye. My penultimate order of Shetland wool (all dyed, spun, labelled and in balls) was held up while AQUIS checked it. What surprised me was that my most recent order didn't trigger AQIS, given that it actually included combed top to spin.
The funny thing here was that Leesa got their secret santa from one of my Dutch patrons, and that went swimmingly. In 9 days from The Netherlands to Australia. But Australia to Belgium was one heck of a nightmare.
hmm so the "ij" in mijn is not a sound that occurs in English (or many other languages) but the best i can explain to you is that you can combine the "e" sound in "exit" with an eee sound (like in sleep) and say it quickly. So it's Mijn (my) and Wol (the o is pronounced like the o in "stop") and Den. my wool den.
Leesa here... yay glad you like them international postage has never been so hard lol first time sending to the EU and well there is definitely room for improvement. Looking forward to when you spin them!
Then you can keep your eye out on Wednesday ;)
You are so generous with your time and fiber. You are also an amazing story teller. You keep me engaged with your videos.
Thank you!
oh my goodness all the hand drawn postcards have my HEART!!!!❤❤❤❤ what a gorgeous collection of fibers for your lucky recipient
Thank you :D
Hanging out with Jente while hanging out with TH-cam Jente I love the internet 😂
Amazing place, the internet :)
what fun! what beautiful wools. lovely. great video.
Thank you!
@@MijnWolden your welcome!
I was wondering why so many new people joined the patreon, but this video explains a lot 😄. I don't know how I missed it yesterday.
Sunday is not my usual upload day of course :D
Those are such lovely packages! 😍
I hope you are having just as much with Tour De Fleece 2024 as I am having. So far I’ve already clocked almost 5 hours and 3/4 of spinning. I didn’t realise I spin so much every day until I started keeping track. 😅
That's quite the result already!
Happy TdF! Wow! I’d love for you to be my SecretSanta! What a fabulous fiber collection, plus your cards. I hope your recipient loves all the fiber you prepared and sent, and all the care you put into it.. I think you will love spinning the John Arbon fiber. Their blends are so much fun to play with on the wheel. Enjoy! harpingJanet
I don't know if they like it, haven't heard back from them :)
Hey Jente. It's fun watching this today when your other secret Santa will go on a long trip to europe. It's not as beautifully prepared as yours so. i might still make a little video for you as well. You kept me company by nervous packing everything i might have forgotten for my trip. Enjoy tour de fleece
You keep travelling, it only makes me slightly jealous ;)
As an Aussie I was very amused by your package, as I have both john arbon and Tarndie polworth in my (fairly small) fibre stash. I have plans for both of them and can't wait to spin them up 😊
Oh Jente it was so lovely watching you receive and open your parcel - your excitement was a thing of beauty and so was that wool 😍. I wish we could see the reactions of the lucky lucky person that receives your gift. You are gonna have an amazing TDF 🤗Let the games begin !!!!
That wool is gorgeous!
I love your cards! Sheep are so cute! 🤍
They are!
Jente, you are a talented artist! Thank you for your videos.
Thank you :)
Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️
Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast.
I love what you chose for your
Secret Santa, for TDF.
Just a side note, john Arbon Textile is based here in England, so the Secret Santa from Australia has indeed been very "International ".🐨🐨
I hope you and your Patreons on Discord have a Wonderful TDF 🚲🥰🐑
Happy Spinning Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big "Fleecey" Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🐑🐑🐑🐑🫂🫂🫂🫂🐑🐑
So it has went twice halfway across the globe!
@@MijnWolden Hi Jente, I hope you and Dries are both OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️
Yes you was sent twice across the globe,. 🤣🤣🤣
It's probably been on a sight seeing trip to get to you. 🌞🌞
I think it's going to be close on to 2 weeks to get from here to Australia and then to you, could even be longer. 🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣
Hope you have a Wonderful TDF 🌞🚲🎡🐑
Happy Spinning Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big "Fleecey " Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🐑🐑🐑🐑🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
Give Dries my love too xxxx ❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂
Wish I had watched this before recording my video for Wed 😅 I mentioned you but didn't know how to pronounce your name, now I am excited because I do, only a little late 🤭 Have fun with your fleece. BFL is a common go to here and very lovely. I have not spun polworth yet.
Better later than never ;)
Your recipient will love what you have prepped. I know that I would love it and hopefully in the future, I can try Flemish and/or Belgian sheep wool.
Hopefully you can!
OMG I have of course seen the altar piece by the Van Eyck brothers but that was befor I got into sheep and spinning and I never thought about what breed it might be! That's so cool that it is an actual recogniseable breed, and not just a "generic sheep shaped object"!
Those two braids you got look absolutely beautiful, Im curious to see what you make of them! And your own package also looked great, I love the cards you made.
And I just have to share this with someone who will appreciate: I spent last weekend as a medieval reenactor in a museum, and they have a working great wheel! So I spent most of the time there spinning on it, which was such a cool experience!
ok now... what museum is this and how I can spin on their great wheel?
@@MijnWolden It's the Prehistorisch Dorp in Eindhoven, so it's doable from Belgium depending on where you live. During the summer they have the Ambachtenweekend and the Textielweekend, that's when the chances are best that there is someone there who knows how to use it and can let you try it out. (I'll be there again in August. If you want to, i can tell you when I'll be there and I can let you try it)
@raevynwoods9403 I am in Flemish Limburg. There is a Road going straight to Eindhoven Passing through my city. I have in the past even sent in my resume to work there... So it is very doable 😁
@@MijnWolden woahhh that is cool. You're probably closer than me then, I have to travel for almost 2 hours to get there (car is a bit quicker than public transport but I don't have one)!
@raevynwoods9403 public transport would be longer than that, because somehow a border is an issue???
Oh Jente , i am so happy that you Are the Same Like me, or other Direktion??
Fibre makes me always happy!❤
How do you mean? Same like you?
@@MijnWolden The Same Junkie with Fibres!!! 😂😂😂😂❤️ Im so happy that im Not alone
With this fibervirus!🥰🥰🥰
I'll be spinning in public at my local yarn store where I teach spinning to celebrate the store's 30 anniversary and this fall during the middle of tour de fleece. I have to decide what I'm going to spin. Maybe some Finnish Landrace fleece that I have dyed and am combing at the moment.
I have only heard great things about finnish wool
Such super dedication for a secret santa gift! The drawings are a great and funny bonus ❤️
I couldn't resist trying to add some funny
Wow Tarndie wool! You will love their Polwarth, I bought some raw fleece from there a couple of years ago. It's divine! A lot of popular merino crosses originate from this part of Victoria.
It feels so soft. If this is what merino(adjacent) fibers should feel like, I've been scammed in the past!
@@MijnWolden Mostly (75%) Merino bloodlines with Lincoln (25%). The difference between the hand feel of Corriedale and Polwarth is quite significant, but they are both Merino/Lincoln crosses. Merino might be fine wool, but they don't have great carcass weights and suffer more than the English breeds from footrot. So, crossing Merino with these sturdier and more resilient breeds makes for quality dual purpose sheep that can be grazed much closer to the coast, where the rainfall is quite similar to Belgian conditions.
This is such a cool idea! I am just dipping my toe in Tour de Fleece this year. Spindles only, we'll see how much I can spin.
Have fun!
The polwarth is an absolute treat! I’ve knit with tarndy’s polwarth yarn and it’s gorgeous.
It feels amazing!
That is so sweet. One day I might be lucky enough to try Belgian milk sheep and Flemish sheep fiber in the United States. I’m assuming postage is pretty horrible.
probably, but I think the main issue would be to get it clean enough to be accepted in customs. Can't have any foreign bodies like seeds or dead bugs in there...
Wat een feest! Beide mooie pakketjes met wol.
Veel spin plezier! Had je deze swap zelf georganiseerd? Voor volgend jaar wil ik graag weer eens mee doen met een swap. ( of rond kerst)
Ja, ik had de secret Santa zelf georganiseerd voor iedereen die geabonneerd is op mijn patreon ☺️
I would love to do a swap with you but I know it would not get through Australian customs they are very strict which is quite frustrating at times I know the people that do import fibre spend months getting it approved and the appropriate documentation always remember this when items are sent to Australia or New Zealand
Even fibre that has been dyed and spun into wool can catch AQIS (Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service)'s eye. My penultimate order of Shetland wool (all dyed, spun, labelled and in balls) was held up while AQUIS checked it. What surprised me was that my most recent order didn't trigger AQIS, given that it actually included combed top to spin.
The funny thing here was that Leesa got their secret santa from one of my Dutch patrons, and that went swimmingly. In 9 days from The Netherlands to Australia. But Australia to Belgium was one heck of a nightmare.
Awkward question because I don’t speak your native language, how is your channel name pronounced?
hmm so the "ij" in mijn is not a sound that occurs in English (or many other languages) but the best i can explain to you is that you can combine the "e" sound in "exit" with an eee sound (like in sleep) and say it quickly.
So it's Mijn (my)
and Wol (the o is pronounced like the o in "stop")
and Den.
my wool den.
@@BelEnnui aaah thank you
Yes, but also: wolden is also a play on walden (like David Henri Thoreau kind of Walden)
@@MijnWolden (◕ o ◕✿)