I have been resisting spinning for years. I thought I didn't have time for more hobbies, but you finally inspired me. I picked up a spindle a few weeks ago and I have now caught the spinning bug. Am sticking with drop spindles for now, but I'm sure there will be equipment creep. So excited to be part of the spinning adventure this year. Thank you for the inspiration. ❤
That is amazing Andrea, I’m so excited for you. There is something so joyous about working with yarn you’ve spun yourself. I hope you continue to enjoy your spindles. Spindle spinning is by far my favourite type of spinning 🧡🧡
I really enjoyed watching this and hearing your plans for TDF. I am participating for the first time, in a very small way! As a newbie spinner, I am using the tour to practice, practice and more practice! I realize I can’t get ahead of myself but I plan to drop spindle every day and perhaps use a sample box of roving that I’ve purchased ( I love the idea of an advent calendar to use everyday) Take care of yourself and I really hope the family situation eases a bit soon for you x
Oh that’s wonderful Heather. I hope you are enjoying your first TDF, it’s the perfect excuse to do a little spinning practice every day, I’m so excited for you 😃🧡
Isn’t it fun to have so many options? I am exactly he same way. I, too, have a project (or 2) for each type of spinning. I do hope you get some tranquility and respite from your very busy and challenging days. Your family are in my thoughts. 🙏
Thank you so much Lisa. It’s proving to be a difficult start to the month, but finding time for spinning is helping to give me some moments of peace and keeping me from feeling too overwhelmed. I hope you are having lots of fun with your TDF projects 😘😃
Oh I love your exciting plans for spinning. Hope the stars align and you get some time to enjoy working with your gorgeous wool. I thought I would give Tour de Fleece a go this year as a newbie spinner...I'll just be spinning along at my own pace.
Glad to see that you’re keeping things simple and pared down for yourself, Ange 😁 Hope that you find enough time to get some concerted spinning done. Jinny
I hope and pray all goes well with the family responsibilities. And I really appreciate you sharing your moth story. When our yarn stars relate such situations, I feel less guilty about my own moth issues! :D
Thank you so much for your well wishes for my family, we very much appreciate them. I’m always happy to keep things real here and am annoyed with myself that I didn’t take proper care to ensure my fleeces were protected. But it’s a lesson learned!!!
Your plans sound wonderful! Life can make it difficult to stick to something too ambitious. Portable projects are a great way to still do something whilst being able to keep to commitments you have made. Having started spinning after last year’s TDF ended, this will be my first one. My office backpack permanently has a supported spindle, a bowl and a piece of fibre in it. I also have my little EEW Nano2, it’s always out at home and I’ve found a vanity bag it neatly fits into to take along wherever I want to take it. I’ve ’tested’ how my colleagues react to lunchtime spinning and they don’t mind me getting out my fluff and spinning equipment. Better: they’re curious. My goal is extremely simple: to spin every day. No planning which fibre, just spinning. I’ve got plenty of Shetland, some Merino, some alpaca. I’ve got various colours. If I feel like switching, I’ve got plenty of bobbins. My wool combs are clean and ready as well if I feel like tackling my raw alpaca: I can comb up a nest or two and spin that up before combing up some more. My frugal mind has already figured out how many metres I’d need for various projects, which means the produced yarn also has a selection of projects to go into. Depending on how much I enjoy spinning a particular fibre I can switch between knitting projects, too. There’s one thing I’m immensely curious about: how many yards of spun yarn will TDF yield me? Because I’ve never timed how much spinning time I need for a certain yardage. So I’ll be keeping track of that. Being a lace knitter/spinner by default (for now) I shy away from measuring my spinning in grams/ounces. Niddy noddy yardage/metres prior to finishing the yarn is strictly how I ‘measure’ my spinning. It’ll be useful to find out how many metres three weeks of spinning will yield and to many hours of spinning this equals to. I can already estimate roughly more or less how many hours I need to knit most of the knitting projects I tend to tackle. So many people ask me “how long does it take you to make this from start to finish” and it’ll be nice to ba able to answer to that including spinning time. 😊 All the best not just for your TDF but the many challenges and commitments you’re taking on in the coming months.
Thank you so much for sharing all of your plans. I really enjoyed hearing all about them. I hope you had a great time during the tour and that you managed to spin a little every day 🤞🧡
I got back into spinning again thanks to you, so yes, I am kind of low key spinning along for myself, doing some small projects: Attempting a 3-ply from red and yellow fibre (25g) I bought on a trip to Scotland a few years ago and some BFL that I got from a friend when I set out to spinning on a new Dealgan I bought! I'd also love to learn how to ply onf the fly. We'll see! ;) (Lots of love to you and your family, as always.)
Oh that is such a huge compliment thank you. I hope you have been enjoying your spinning again and that you were able to make some good progress on your spinning projects during this years tour 😃🤞🧡
Your cardigan plan sounds very interesting! I’m basically a knitter, with spinning as a “backup” hobby. However, I’m very interested in learning/seeing how other spinners use their hand spun yarn in knitting projects. So, I look forward to seeing your progress on your cardigan. I’m fairly new to your channel, but one of your prior videos on supported spindle spinning really caught my attention, so I subscribed! I have a Turkish spindle that I like very much, but I also have a Shacht Matchless and a Hansen e-spinner. No plans for TdF this year… Just going to do what I want, when I want…! Good luck with your plans, and I hope your family issues resolve themselves soon, and in a positive manner!
Thank you so much for watching Robin. I appreciate you taking the time to leave such a lovely comment too. I hope you enjoyed your TDF this year. It sounds like you have some lovely spinning tools to work with 😃🧡
Hi, I did my first TDF in 2010 and have done most years since, this year its a case of spinning to restock my yarn hoard for knitting as well as a few skeins for a friends shop. I only spin from fleece, British breeds so I have Shetland. Bowmont, rye land, Romney and Texel x lined up. Some still needs washing but I have enough to get me going :-)
Hope you get some time to undertake these great plans. I’m in a guild team and have a v long Shetland spin I want to make progress on, a John Arbon broken tops blend I want to finish. And to make headway with my recent wonderwool haul. Good luck to us both!
Hi Ange, I hope you and James are both OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️ Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast. ✨️🌟🔆 I really appreciate you putting video podcasts out, during this difficult Family situation 😊😊 I'm loving your TDF Spinning plans, I really hope that you get time to do some of them.( it does start on the 29th) it's starting and finishing earlier due to the Olympics being in France.( in case anyone was wondering why). I'm Spinning on my own too. I have a small amount of Fleece that I'd like to Spin, but I might just keep it for the Challenge Days. It's the first time that I'll be washing and prepping for a Spin.🎡 I hope your Family situation eases off for you soon.🌞✨️🌟 Hope you have a Wonderful Weekend and TDF 🚲🎡🐑 Happy Spinning and Knitting Special Fibre Friend 🎡🧶🥰🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love, healing vibes and Huge Woolly Hugs to you and James and Cuddles for Newt Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🫂🫂🫂🫂🐑🐑🫂🫂🫂🐈⬛🫂🫂
@@YarnNYarns Hi Ange, I hope you're all doing OK xx ❣️❣️❣️ Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥ Sending Heart ♥ back to you ❤️💞 Yeah I'm quite excited to be washing the small amounts of Fleeces on the Challenge Days and might even try a Lock Spin. Hope you have something nice and the time to Spin during the TDF. I hope the Family situation is easing off a little. I think about you every day and pray for you all every day. I wish I could come and give you a Huge Wolly Hug 🐑🐑🐑🫂🫂🫂🫂 I hope you have a Wonderful first Weekend of TDF 🚲🐑 Happy Blending and Spinning Special Fibre Friend 🎉🎡🥰🐑🥰🌈🌈 Take care and stay safe Lots of love, Prayers and Huge Woolly Hugs to you and James and a Cuddle for Newt..Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🫂🐑🐑🫂🫂🫂🫂🐈⬛🫂
Been spinning since November so my first Tour de Fleece! I have some lovely fluff hoarded away to spin, going to aim for 15 mins a day. Whilst on holiday I picked up some locks off a fence at Hadrian’s wall so prepping that will be one of my challenges! I also want to learn to spin from the fold, so I think I have enough to be going on with. Take care of yourself, spindle spinning is nice and portable and hopefully will give you some respite from care duties.
I hope you have been enjoying your first TDF and 15 minutes of spinning a day sounds like a brilliant goal. Love that you collected some fleece from your holidays. I’d love to visit Hadrians wall some day 🧡
I'm going to attempt Steven West's Peminguino with Livestock Conservency ( US) fibers. Still processing and acquiring the fibers. For TDF I'm making yarn for my granddaughter, refinishing a Wee Peggy.
Gosh that's a lot of options you have for tdf. It does start on the 29th this year. Best day of the year to start if you ask me 😜🎂🎁🎉🍰🥳🎊🎂🍰🎁🎉🎂 I will probably be doing a very relaxed and small goals version this year. Probably just finish up the second bobbin of my traveller cowl yarn, then see what I feel like. Maybe just 10 minutes a day. 🤷🏻♀️ I also have some of a previous year's fibre advent to finish up and at least 3 sweater's quantities and about a million other options 🤣 Plus a family visit and various meds related nonsense to deal with. Onwards! 💪🏻
@YarnNYarns Ha. It was a very adulty birthday with a visit from Rob's family for some apple pie. Then a trip to the garden centre 🤣🤣 My tour activity has been , erm, minimal. 🤣 But more than the past few months of nothing. So I'm counting that as progress. I make my own rules!! 😜
Yayyyyy i have been keeping my eye out for an Ange video all week! Didn't expect too many because of your family stuff going on. Hope you are ok (glad for the videos) #ynyscrapmal is so much fun ❤❤
Yay! Thank you! So glad you are enjoying the scrap mal. Making these videos is my little escape and a bit of me time away from everything else that we have going on 😃🧡
I'm going to leave my Tour de Fleece debut for a year, as, unfortunately, I am spending a lot more time than I would like in the local hospital. I'll probably do some spinning, as I am still a relatively new spinner and I like to practise a little every day. Besides which, there's all my knitting projects: * finish the cardigan I'm working on (just doing the bands and need to add the buttons and sew it together after that) * finish my Shetland Wool Week Islesburgh Toorie, (which is a more portable project than the cardigan as the cardigan has got to the pins and buttons and sewing stage, so some of the toorie has already been knitted in hospital) This is not a huge project. * eagerly awaiting my surprise sock along yarn - thought another colourful project would be fun * eagerly awaiting the wool with which to make a baby cardigan for a pregnant friend. Then there are a couple of longer term projects after that.
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I have been resisting spinning for years. I thought I didn't have time for more hobbies, but you finally inspired me. I picked up a spindle a few weeks ago and I have now caught the spinning bug. Am sticking with drop spindles for now, but I'm sure there will be equipment creep. So excited to be part of the spinning adventure this year. Thank you for the inspiration. ❤
That is amazing Andrea, I’m so excited for you. There is something so joyous about working with yarn you’ve spun yourself. I hope you continue to enjoy your spindles. Spindle spinning is by far my favourite type of spinning 🧡🧡
I really enjoyed watching this and hearing your plans for TDF. I am participating for the first time, in a very small way! As a newbie spinner, I am using the tour to practice, practice and more practice! I realize I can’t get ahead of myself but I plan to drop spindle every day and perhaps use a sample box of roving that I’ve purchased ( I love the idea of an advent calendar to use everyday) Take care of yourself and I really hope the family situation eases a bit soon for you x
Oh that’s wonderful Heather. I hope you are enjoying your first TDF, it’s the perfect excuse to do a little spinning practice every day, I’m so excited for you 😃🧡
Isn’t it fun to have so many options? I am exactly he same way. I, too, have a project (or 2) for each type of spinning. I do hope you get some tranquility and respite from your very busy and challenging days. Your family are in my thoughts. 🙏
Thank you so much Lisa. It’s proving to be a difficult start to the month, but finding time for spinning is helping to give me some moments of peace and keeping me from feeling too overwhelmed. I hope you are having lots of fun with your TDF projects 😘😃
Oh I love your exciting plans for spinning. Hope the stars align and you get some time to enjoy working with your gorgeous wool. I thought I would give Tour de Fleece a go this year as a newbie spinner...I'll just be spinning along at my own pace.
Thank you so much. I hope you enjoy your first tour it’s such a fun event and great for motivation to spin a little every day 😃🧡
Glad to see that you’re keeping things simple and pared down for yourself, Ange 😁
Hope that you find enough time to get some concerted spinning done.
Jinny
Hehe you know me always trying to keep myself busy and I don’t ever get stressed about the things that I don’t end up doing 🤣😃🧡
Thanks for this video so much especially as you have so much family stuff to do. Always appreciated ❤
You are so welcome Kay, making these videos is my little bit of me time and a little escape from the other stresses we have at the moment 🧡
I hope and pray all goes well with the family responsibilities. And I really appreciate you sharing your moth story. When our yarn stars relate such situations, I feel less guilty about my own moth issues! :D
Thank you so much for your well wishes for my family, we very much appreciate them.
I’m always happy to keep things real here and am annoyed with myself that I didn’t take proper care to ensure my fleeces were protected. But it’s a lesson learned!!!
Your plans sound wonderful! Life can make it difficult to stick to something too ambitious. Portable projects are a great way to still do something whilst being able to keep to commitments you have made.
Having started spinning after last year’s TDF ended, this will be my first one. My office backpack permanently has a supported spindle, a bowl and a piece of fibre in it. I also have my little EEW Nano2, it’s always out at home and I’ve found a vanity bag it neatly fits into to take along wherever I want to take it. I’ve ’tested’ how my colleagues react to lunchtime spinning and they don’t mind me getting out my fluff and spinning equipment. Better: they’re curious.
My goal is extremely simple: to spin every day. No planning which fibre, just spinning. I’ve got plenty of Shetland, some Merino, some alpaca. I’ve got various colours. If I feel like switching, I’ve got plenty of bobbins. My wool combs are clean and ready as well if I feel like tackling my raw alpaca: I can comb up a nest or two and spin that up before combing up some more.
My frugal mind has already figured out how many metres I’d need for various projects, which means the produced yarn also has a selection of projects to go into. Depending on how much I enjoy spinning a particular fibre I can switch between knitting projects, too.
There’s one thing I’m immensely curious about: how many yards of spun yarn will TDF yield me? Because I’ve never timed how much spinning time I need for a certain yardage. So I’ll be keeping track of that. Being a lace knitter/spinner by default (for now) I shy away from measuring my spinning in grams/ounces. Niddy noddy yardage/metres prior to finishing the yarn is strictly how I ‘measure’ my spinning. It’ll be useful to find out how many metres three weeks of spinning will yield and to many hours of spinning this equals to. I can already estimate roughly more or less how many hours I need to knit most of the knitting projects I tend to tackle. So many people ask me “how long does it take you to make this from start to finish” and it’ll be nice to ba able to answer to that including spinning time. 😊
All the best not just for your TDF but the many challenges and commitments you’re taking on in the coming months.
Thank you so much for sharing all of your plans. I really enjoyed hearing all about them. I hope you had a great time during the tour and that you managed to spin a little every day 🤞🧡
@@YarnNYarns - I did! 😊
I got back into spinning again thanks to you, so yes, I am kind of low key spinning along for myself, doing some small projects: Attempting a 3-ply from red and yellow fibre (25g) I bought on a trip to Scotland a few years ago and some BFL that I got from a friend when I set out to spinning on a new Dealgan I bought! I'd also love to learn how to ply onf the fly. We'll see! ;) (Lots of love to you and your family, as always.)
Oh that is such a huge compliment thank you. I hope you have been enjoying your spinning again and that you were able to make some good progress on your spinning projects during this years tour 😃🤞🧡
Your cardigan plan sounds very interesting! I’m basically a knitter, with spinning as a “backup” hobby. However, I’m very interested in learning/seeing how other spinners use their hand spun yarn in knitting projects. So, I look forward to seeing your progress on your cardigan. I’m fairly new to your channel, but one of your prior videos on supported spindle spinning really caught my attention, so I subscribed! I have a Turkish spindle that I like very much, but I also have a Shacht Matchless and a Hansen e-spinner. No plans for TdF this year… Just going to do what I want, when I want…! Good luck with your plans, and I hope your family issues resolve themselves soon, and in a positive manner!
Thank you so much for watching Robin. I appreciate you taking the time to leave such a lovely comment too.
I hope you enjoyed your TDF this year. It sounds like you have some lovely spinning tools to work with 😃🧡
Hi, I did my first TDF in 2010 and have done most years since, this year its a case of spinning to restock my yarn hoard for knitting as well as a few skeins for a friends shop. I only spin from fleece, British breeds so I have Shetland. Bowmont, rye land, Romney and Texel x lined up. Some still needs washing but I have enough to get me going :-)
I hope you managed to get lots of lovely spinning done during the tour. It sounds like you have a lovely collection of fleeces to work with 😃🧡
Hope you get some time to undertake these great plans. I’m in a guild team and have a v long Shetland spin I want to make progress on, a John Arbon broken tops blend I want to finish. And to make headway with my recent wonderwool haul. Good luck to us both!
Love your plans Mary I hope you and your team have lots of fun with the tour this year. It’s always one of my favourite times of the year 😃
Hi Ange, I hope you and James are both OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️
Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast. ✨️🌟🔆
I really appreciate you putting video podcasts out, during this difficult Family situation 😊😊
I'm loving your TDF Spinning plans, I really hope that you get time to do some of them.( it does start on the 29th) it's starting and finishing earlier due to the Olympics being in France.( in case anyone was wondering why).
I'm Spinning on my own too. I have a small amount of Fleece that I'd like to Spin, but I might just keep it for the Challenge Days. It's the first time that I'll be washing and prepping for a Spin.🎡
I hope your Family situation eases off for you soon.🌞✨️🌟
Hope you have a Wonderful Weekend and TDF 🚲🎡🐑
Happy Spinning and Knitting Special Fibre Friend 🎡🧶🥰🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love, healing vibes and Huge Woolly Hugs to you and James and Cuddles for Newt Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🫂🫂🫂🫂🐑🐑🫂🫂🫂🐈⬛🫂🫂
Ooh first time washing and spinning fleece that’s so exciting and what a great way to participate in the challenge days.
Hope all is well with you xx
@@YarnNYarns Hi Ange, I hope you're all doing OK xx ❣️❣️❣️
Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥
Sending Heart ♥ back to you ❤️💞
Yeah I'm quite excited to be washing the small amounts of Fleeces on the Challenge Days and might even try a Lock Spin.
Hope you have something nice and the time to Spin during the TDF.
I hope the Family situation is easing off a little.
I think about you every day and pray for you all every day.
I wish I could come and give you a Huge Wolly Hug 🐑🐑🐑🫂🫂🫂🫂
I hope you have a Wonderful first Weekend of TDF 🚲🐑
Happy Blending and Spinning Special Fibre Friend 🎉🎡🥰🐑🥰🌈🌈
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love, Prayers and Huge Woolly Hugs to you and James and a Cuddle for Newt..Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🫂🐑🐑🫂🫂🫂🫂🐈⬛🫂
Been spinning since November so my first Tour de Fleece! I have some lovely fluff hoarded away to spin, going to aim for 15 mins a day. Whilst on holiday I picked up some locks off a fence at Hadrian’s wall so prepping that will be one of my challenges! I also want to learn to spin from the fold, so I think I have enough to be going on with. Take care of yourself, spindle spinning is nice and portable and hopefully will give you some respite from care duties.
I hope you have been enjoying your first TDF and 15 minutes of spinning a day sounds like a brilliant goal.
Love that you collected some fleece from your holidays. I’d love to visit Hadrians wall some day 🧡
@@YarnNYarns I’ve managed considerable more than 15 mins a day!! I am loving it!
@themother_thing so happy to hear that you’re enjoying it so much 🧡
I'm going to attempt Steven West's Peminguino with Livestock Conservency ( US) fibers. Still processing and acquiring the fibers. For TDF I'm making yarn for my granddaughter, refinishing a Wee Peggy.
Your penguono project sounds amazing Maribeth. I bet you are having so much fun collecting all of those different fibres 🧡😃
Gosh that's a lot of options you have for tdf.
It does start on the 29th this year. Best day of the year to start if you ask me 😜🎂🎁🎉🍰🥳🎊🎂🍰🎁🎉🎂
I will probably be doing a very relaxed and small goals version this year. Probably just finish up the second bobbin of my traveller cowl yarn, then see what I feel like. Maybe just 10 minutes a day. 🤷🏻♀️ I also have some of a previous year's fibre advent to finish up and at least 3 sweater's quantities and about a million other options 🤣 Plus a family visit and various meds related nonsense to deal with. Onwards! 💪🏻
Hope you had an amazing birthday Gemma 🤞🎂
How is your tour going? I hope you have been able to achieve some of your goals 😘🧡
@YarnNYarns Ha. It was a very adulty birthday with a visit from Rob's family for some apple pie. Then a trip to the garden centre 🤣🤣
My tour activity has been , erm, minimal. 🤣 But more than the past few months of nothing. So I'm counting that as progress. I make my own rules!! 😜
Yayyyyy i have been keeping my eye out for an Ange video all week! Didn't expect too many because of your family stuff going on. Hope you are ok (glad for the videos)
#ynyscrapmal is so much fun ❤❤
Yay! Thank you! So glad you are enjoying the scrap mal.
Making these videos is my little escape and a bit of me time away from everything else that we have going on 😃🧡
I'm going to leave my Tour de Fleece debut for a year, as, unfortunately, I am spending a lot more time than I would like in the local hospital. I'll probably do some spinning, as I am still a relatively new spinner and I like to practise a little every day.
Besides which, there's all my knitting projects:
* finish the cardigan I'm working on (just doing the bands and need to add the buttons and sew it together after that)
* finish my Shetland Wool Week Islesburgh Toorie, (which is a more portable project than the cardigan as the cardigan has got to the pins and buttons and sewing stage, so some of the toorie has already been knitted in hospital) This is not a huge project.
* eagerly awaiting my surprise sock along yarn - thought another colourful project would be fun
* eagerly awaiting the wool with which to make a baby cardigan for a pregnant friend.
Then there are a couple of longer term projects after that.
I hope you managed to find a little bit of time for spinning and that your time at the hospital wasn’t too difficult 🤞🤞🧡🧡
Angie, do you prefer the wood to the 3d Turkish spindles? Could you share your experience?
Hi Angela. Hope you are doing well
Thank you Lottie, things are a bit up and down here with family stuff but we’re taking things each day as they come. How are things with you?