Hi Tamsin, I hope you're feeling better each day xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️ Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast. Wow, love, love those colours, definitely got that beautiful Autumn look to your Handspun and Dyed Yarns.🍁🍁🍁 Your Knitted Sample looks amazing and beautiful too 🍁🍁 Happy Spinning and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎡🧶🐑🥰 Take care, stay safe and well Lots of love and Huge Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐈⬛🐈⬛🫂🫂 I have some BFL Locks that I'd love to do a Lock Spun yarn with, but not sure whether to spin them together or whether to do a Corespun Yarn with. I've never done either before, so your advice would be much appreciated. You're much appreciated for everything you share . Happy Spinning, Dyeing and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎡🎉🧶🐑🥰 Love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐈⬛🐈⬛🫂🫂
Personally I would lock spin alone and then ply it with thread for balance and strength. Core spinning locks can be trickier because they can slide on the core. But maybe do small samples both ways and see which one you prefer. Have fun!
That dye powder that goes from orange to green is so weird! At first glance you must've thought they'd sent you the wrong colour. And the sheen on your finished yarns is gorgeous! Makes me sad I can't get my hands on a bfl fleece here in Australia. (No bfl sheep in the country, and our import rules are uber strict. I've managed to find roving, but it's not quite the same.) ❤ Tamantha
The dye powder did make me go hmmmm but I trusted the process and I love that dye now lol. I get why Australia is so strict with their sheep/wool laws but it's still sad sometimes that you can't experience all the breeds. BFL is such a versatile sheep I'm surprised no one has started a herd though. Now I'm getting ideas on different ways to work with the roving. Hmmmm...
I would deeply adore the idea of making a sweater with lock spun yarn but that would take so much yarn! More likely a hat or scarf would be a more reasonable project lol.
Why not use fancy cups for mixing dyes? If it brings you joy end if they’re practical for that use, I don’t see why not. Seems to me that you dye on a regular or semi-regular basis. That leads me to conclude you’ll probably be using those cups way more often now than if they were stuck at the back of a closet. Or in a display cabinet where they’d only be collecting dust. This way, every time you take them out to dye some fibre, you derive both use and joy out of them. Your finished yarns are gorgeous! Well worth the use of fancy souvenir cups for the dyeing! Edit: In Dutch, objects that are intended for use (whether they are also decorative or not) are called “gebruiksvoorwerpen” which loosely translates to “objects for use”. Cups are “gebruiksvoorwerpen”. It’d be a pity if they simply sat there or were rarely used.
@eddavanleemputten9232 the cups are only one thing that I use in a non traditional way lol. I firmly believe I buy things to use, not to just save them and the Dutch are very wise for understanding that. Part of why I explain why I do these things is to show that you can use a thing you wouldn't normally and give that thing purpose beyond being pretty. Like say... yarn. Lol.
@@bffiberarts - Having spent a significant chunk of my formative years in countries where you can’t get everything, I’ve learned the value of using things for purposes they aren’t really originally meant for. I grew up seeing my mother fixing’ a perpetually leaking toilet bowl by giving it a concrete casing (she mixed it herself), we invented lots of temporary fixes with things like tin cans, paperclips, string, and duct tape or epoxy glue. If something was pretty it needed to have a purpose too. If it was capable of scooping, it was used to scoop. If it could hold something for mixing, it was used for mixing. If it could be used as a liner or a cover, it didn’t matter that it wasn’t intended for that purpose. It was used as a liner. Or it would cover something. LOL
Oh, a question! I also tend to have little bits of VM in my curly locks. Do you just not worry about it too much when you spin them textured? I often end up fussing with it and turning the whole pile of wool into a loose cloud trying to pick it all out.
@micahmilne I just don't worry about it if it's fine. If it's a bigger chunk I'll pick it out but the fine stuff just blends into the texture and you rarely feel it. Once it's spun if I feel a piece I'll snip it out carefully.
🥰🥰 I love them! Reminds me of the woods when late October, early September when all the trees are in full color change.
Which is what I thought until my lovely brother called it 1970s yarn and now I can't unsee it lol. I still love it though.
@@bffiberarts oh good grief! 🤣😂 That fits too
Yeah he was right lol
Ohh heck ya!! Awesome color and texture!!! Lovethat salmon!!!
I'm going to have to spin them dye again because it came out so good!
I love your art yarn! I hope to learn how to spin that yarn this winter. As always you put a smile & a giggle in my mornings.
Yay, I'm so happy! I hope you'll love making it as much as I do.
Fantastic. Brilliant. Love it to bits ❤
Thank you!
That is stunning love love love it xx
It came out so great! I have just hanging where I walk by it everyday lol.
Lovely yarn!!
It was so fun to make.
So lovely! Thank you.
@@stonewallsfarm3105 glad you enjoyed.
So pretty. 🧡💚🤎
Thank you!
Hi Tamsin, I hope you're feeling better each day xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️
Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast.
Wow, love, love those colours, definitely got that beautiful Autumn look to your Handspun and Dyed Yarns.🍁🍁🍁
Your Knitted Sample looks amazing and beautiful too 🍁🍁
Happy Spinning and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎡🧶🐑🥰
Take care, stay safe and well
Lots of love and Huge Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐈⬛🐈⬛🫂🫂
I have some BFL Locks that I'd love to do a Lock Spun yarn with, but not sure whether to spin them together or whether to do a Corespun Yarn with.
I've never done either before, so your advice would be much appreciated.
You're much appreciated for everything you share .
Happy Spinning, Dyeing and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎡🎉🧶🐑🥰
Love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐈⬛🐈⬛🫂🫂
Personally I would lock spin alone and then ply it with thread for balance and strength. Core spinning locks can be trickier because they can slide on the core. But maybe do small samples both ways and see which one you prefer. Have fun!
That dye powder that goes from orange to green is so weird! At first glance you must've thought they'd sent you the wrong colour. And the sheen on your finished yarns is gorgeous! Makes me sad I can't get my hands on a bfl fleece here in Australia. (No bfl sheep in the country, and our import rules are uber strict. I've managed to find roving, but it's not quite the same.)
❤ Tamantha
The dye powder did make me go hmmmm but I trusted the process and I love that dye now lol. I get why Australia is so strict with their sheep/wool laws but it's still sad sometimes that you can't experience all the breeds. BFL is such a versatile sheep I'm surprised no one has started a herd though. Now I'm getting ideas on different ways to work with the roving. Hmmmm...
Let us see what you do with them Tasmin!
(Any ideas???)
I would deeply adore the idea of making a sweater with lock spun yarn but that would take so much yarn! More likely a hat or scarf would be a more reasonable project lol.
Why not use fancy cups for mixing dyes? If it brings you joy end if they’re practical for that use, I don’t see why not. Seems to me that you dye on a regular or semi-regular basis. That leads me to conclude you’ll probably be using those cups way more often now than if they were stuck at the back of a closet. Or in a display cabinet where they’d only be collecting dust. This way, every time you take them out to dye some fibre, you derive both use and joy out of them.
Your finished yarns are gorgeous! Well worth the use of fancy souvenir cups for the dyeing!
Edit: In Dutch, objects that are intended for use (whether they are also decorative or not) are called “gebruiksvoorwerpen” which loosely translates to “objects for use”. Cups are “gebruiksvoorwerpen”. It’d be a pity if they simply sat there or were rarely used.
@eddavanleemputten9232 the cups are only one thing that I use in a non traditional way lol. I firmly believe I buy things to use, not to just save them and the Dutch are very wise for understanding that. Part of why I explain why I do these things is to show that you can use a thing you wouldn't normally and give that thing purpose beyond being pretty. Like say... yarn. Lol.
@@bffiberarts - Having spent a significant chunk of my formative years in countries where you can’t get everything, I’ve learned the value of using things for purposes they aren’t really originally meant for. I grew up seeing my mother fixing’ a perpetually leaking toilet bowl by giving it a concrete casing (she mixed it herself), we invented lots of temporary fixes with things like tin cans, paperclips, string, and duct tape or epoxy glue. If something was pretty it needed to have a purpose too. If it was capable of scooping, it was used to scoop. If it could hold something for mixing, it was used for mixing. If it could be used as a liner or a cover, it didn’t matter that it wasn’t intended for that purpose. It was used as a liner. Or it would cover something. LOL
I love it!
Oh, a question! I also tend to have little bits of VM in my curly locks. Do you just not worry about it too much when you spin them textured? I often end up fussing with it and turning the whole pile of wool into a loose cloud trying to pick it all out.
@micahmilne I just don't worry about it if it's fine. If it's a bigger chunk I'll pick it out but the fine stuff just blends into the texture and you rarely feel it. Once it's spun if I feel a piece I'll snip it out carefully.
@@bffiberarts Okay, thank you! I'll keep that in mind.