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Mythic Fiber Club Sign Up

Thursday, May 19th, 2011 | Author: The Gnome

Hopefully, this button works!

Gnomespun Mythic Fiber Club: Ancient Pantheons

16 Slots.
$50 (all inclusive) for U.S. and Canada, $60 for Everywhere Else
June-August Monthly 4oz braids (3x4oz)
Writeup of fiber info with each
Coordinating stitch markers (unless you don’t want them)
No BFL/Merino
No more than 2 from any “class” of wools (long/fine/downs/ancient)
Colorways will be exclusive to the club for at least 6 months

EDIT:
The club is officially full! Thank you all! If this goes well, maybe there will be another!

Hopefully this all works!

That’s all for now.

~The Gnome
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Category: roving Tags: club, spinning fiber 7 Comments

Gnomespun Mythic Fiber Club?

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 | Author: The Gnome

I am gauging interest in a short Gnomespun fiber club.

Details:

Name: Mythic Fiber Club
Cost: $50 (includes everything, shipping, etc)
Duration: 3 Months (Starting June/July)
Fiber: 3 different “uncommon” fibers, no merino/bfl
Dye Theme: Myths and Legends
Goodies: A pair of coordinated handmade stitch markers each month.

Additional information:
No more than 2 of any class of fiber (finewool, downs wool, longwool, primitive/ancient wool).

Braids are my standard 4oz braids.

With each delivery will be a description of the fiber, uses, spinning, etc.

Colorways would be exclusive to the club for a minimum of 6 months.

There could possibly be additional goodies if I can manage them.

So… interest? Suggestions? Questions?

UPDATE:

Ted: Yes, $50 for three shipments, no additional charge. Canada… no, no additional cost. Since I’m not sending large amounts, it doesn’t cost me too much extra. In reference to other non-US countries… good point, the cost will be slightly increased to $60. If you don’t want stitch markers (or would like them in the form of earrings) I can certainly not send them if you don’t want them.

On bimonthly: One of the reasons I’m doing a smaller, short-term, club is to avoid conflicts if I get a job at some point (which I hope will happen). I can do bimonthly if people would prefer (it mostly affects when things would be mailed) but I can do either way without trouble.

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Category: roving Tags: Gnomespun 18 Comments

Spinning

Monday, May 02nd, 2011 | Author: The Gnome

Some more actual blogging.

So you might have noticed in one of the recent updates, a yarn I hadn’t talked about here.

So I use an older stove to do my dyeing on. Periodically it gets cranky and throws a temper tantrum, basically heating to “high” no matter what temperature it’s set at. This ends up boiling the fiber.

Boiling doesn’t completely ruin the fiber, but it does make little felty bits around the edge. Felty bits make it not particularly salable, for obvious reasons. So, instead, I decided to spin it myself since I haven’t spun much rambouillet. 8oz is a pretty big spin for me too.

Now, I’d have liked to spun this longdraw to really take advantage of the fluffy springiness of the rambouillet, but with the felty bits it wasn’t really possible. So I spun it a short-leaning point-of-twist draw.

Rambo Singles

Two moderately full bobbins of singles. Still plenty of space on them though. Time for plying!

Rambo

Of course 8oz is more than fits on a single bobbin, even on the SR30.

Rambo Plied

Making a big and a small skein.

Rambo Skeins

All finished, with a moderate fulling.

Rambo Skein

Rambo Closeup

622 yards of yarn! Yay.

And my current spinning project, 1k yards of BFL for a commission.

Since this is for someone’s specific project I actually made myself a reference card.

BFL Samples

I’m spinning short draw for this because the person wants shine over halo. Allowing in some amount of thickness shift, here’s the first 8oz, plied with a bit of singles left.

BFL Spun