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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Resupply from the Bartlett Yarn booth at the Deerfield Fair 🥰 1lbs of wool for me, and some luxury silk & cashmere for my momma 😍❤️ #fiberart #wool #handspinning #spinnersofbluesky

Three piles of spinning fiber. Back left is "Jade Heather" a light bluish teal, Back right is "Bluejay" a dark navy blue. In the front is "Rose Quartz" which has pinks, some white, and some dusty gray brown. Jade and Bluejay are a sheep wool blend, and Rose Quartz is a blend of silk and cashmere.

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can never have too many hobbies! Bonus: it's also a survival skill! Makin' some corn husk cordage, or as my hubs calls it, cornage. We pray that's not already a word 🤣 #fiberarts #cordage

A closeup of some corn-husk cordage. There are lots of end bits sticking out of the cord where more husk was joined.

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revolver ocelthot @rnaboursiii.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is what datacenters are taking from you

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's peach season in my neck of the woods! Time for some kombucha, with some added tea in the 2nd ferment 🥰 #kombucha #peach #peaches #cooking

A small metal pot filled with peaches and water. It is set on a gas burner.

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ooh how exciting! I love a bit of science 😃 can't wait to see the results!

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Finished up the first half of the "Poppyseed Candyfloss" blend (named by the lovely @colorbombvelma.bsky.social) 🥰 It's ultra squishy, and super cozy! Can't wait to knit it uo into something warm for my little bro ❤️ #fiberarts #handspinning #yarn #handspunyarn #spinnersofbluesky

A twisted skein of heathered gray yarn, on a light brown suede-y blanket

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Took Ms. Leona outside today 🥰 beautiful spinning weather, plus my Mother-in-Law's beautiful garden. So relaxing 💕

An ashford traveler spinning wheel, with a ball of gray riving attached to it. In the background is a lovely green back yard. A picnic table and hammock are visible, as well as a cushioned swing.

#yarn #spinning #handspinning #fiber #fiberarts #ashford #spinningwheel #spinnersofbluesky

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's positively cloud-like 😍 can't wait to spin it!

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Blending time 🥰 Alpaca, Merino and Lambswool! 50g of dark brown alpaca, 50g of hybrid lambswool, and 12.5g of malabrigo merino ❤️ Gotta start prepping my next spin early, I'm way faster with Leona 😍

3 roving bundles of a heathered gray wool blend.

#wool #fiberarts #alpaca #lambswool #merino #yarn #yarnspinning #handmade #spinnersofbluesky #woolroving

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm so excited to introduce you to Leona! A vintage Ashford Traditional (1975), never used, named after the lovely lady who was willing to part with her 🥰 She came still packed in Christchurch Star newspapers! All parts still together and usable, which means I got a friggin unicorn 😍

A 1975 Ashford Traditional spinning wheel. It is placed by an inner corner of a room, by a stained-black hutch. There is a pile of lemon-lime colored fiber attached to the orifice and piled on the front bar of the wheel.

#Ashford #ashfordtraditional #spinningwheel #fiberarts #vintage

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Finally done with the "arcade carpet" spin 😍 absolutely obsessed. Now to wet-set it! Then, the biggest challenge: finding a properly witchy shawl pattern for it 🥰 #fiberarts #handspinning #yarn #yarnspinning #handmade #wool #silk

A twisted skein of yarn. It looks like 90's arcade carpet that is being viewed from far away. It is a sari-silk blend plied with a strand of black malabrigo merino.

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I am partial to option C! Though, they're all so lovely!

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Mum went up to Maine last weekend and got this scrumptious pile at a local shop 🥰 Ms. Ganymede is a Cormo/Romney/BFL mixed ewe, I'm not sure of dad's breed for this lamb's wool. It's frickin beautiful, though. As always, more details in the alt-text!

Closeup of the lambs fleece roving. It's like touching physical clouds!

#roving #fiberarts #lambswool #wool #handspinning #Cormo #Romney #BFL #BlueFacedLeicester

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I didn't do an initial measure, so it came out to about 1.3yds. You could probably make a 1yd loop of yarn and use that to measure where the holes should go!

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I got you! The lovely model is named Belle 🥰

A cat and a niddy noddy laying on light blue sheets. Kitty is a tabbie (or possibly torbie). The niddy-noddy is made with a cardboard tube, that has a chopsticks skewered through each end.

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I made my niddy-noddy with a stiff cardboard tube (like the ones from aluminum foil), and some chopsticks! Ain't pretty, but works like a charm ☺️

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Honestly, I really enjoy spinning with her. The fly-reel drive wheel can stop and hold tension quite well, which is a hell of a bonus feature! I do have 3d printed parts for a Good and Basic Charkha, so I'll definitely have to work on my technique! Those guys don't have a breaking system 🤣

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I'll have to dig, but I think I took a few pics the last time I re-built her. I need to improve the "mother of all" part a little anyways, so that's a great excuse to get my butt in gear and take some good example pics!

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I uh apparently got distracted and forgot to add the rest of the alt-text and tags 🤣 The photo is of a quill spindle wheel made out of recycled materials. Materials include a ruler, knitting needles, a fly reel, and a medicine bottle.

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

High praise for the creature! Haha she is definitely functional, but her best trait is that she cost $0, which is my exact spinning-wheel budget 🤣

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Got Connie Mac (short for MacGuyver'd Contraption) back out to spin another 1oz(25g) of the Malbrigo Merino I got 🥰

This is a picture of a diy charkha-style spinning wheel, so bear with me on the description.

The structural base of the spinning wheel is a ladder made of 2 thick knitting needles with popsicle-stick rungs. The drive wheel is a fly-reel. The maidens/mother-of-all is made from a prescription bottle, with slits cut into it to allow for a quill spindle and drive-band. The quill spindle is a knitting needle, with an elastic band wrapped about an inch wide around the blunt end, so the drive band doesnt slip.

The fiber being spun is Malabrigo Nube Black, which is a fine Merino Wool fiber.

#diy #spinning #handspun #handspinning #spinningwheel #quillwheel #yarnspinning #handmade #handspun #merino #malabrigo #fiberarts #BerryTired

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Mum and I took a mini road trip up to @portfiber.bsky.social in Portland 🥰 Absolutely bothering their socials to gush, it was the perfect fiber shop. Packed to the gills, and owned/operated by lovely humans! Got a (perfectly 4oz) ball of dyed Merino 😍 the colors are perfect!

A 4oz (~113g) ball of dyed Merino combed top. There are several shades of cool blue and green running through it.

#spinning #fiber #fiberarts #handspinning #Merino #wool #yarn

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

5x Time-lapse of me spinning my black #malabrigo #merino on Connie, my DIY quill wheel. Shout out to the cool band on my t-shirt Phantom Ocean 🥰 a cool artist made the art for this t-shirt by hand (it was me).

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

All the hot peppers I germinated have thrown up a sprout 😍 Growing Jalapeños, mystery Asian chillies, and Scotch Bonnets in zone 6a, pray for me y'all 🤣 all dieties accepted. Hoping my mom lends me some prime real estate in her sunny garden beds come planting time. #gardening #hotpeppers

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

They're all a DREAM to spin 😍

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Went on a little trip to Boston with my mum 🥰 Got some gorgeous new spinning fiber. 300g (a little>12oz) of malabrigo superwash merino, and this gorgeous blend by Keira Wiggins 😍 I'm obsessed with the arcade-carpet vibes of the Keira blend! I plan on plying it with the black Malabrigo merino 💕

A pile of spinning fiber, with its label and a drop spindle with some of the spun fiber on it.

The fiber is a Keira Wiggins blend. The blend is 60% Blue Faced Leicester wool, 15% Mulberry Silk, and 25% recycled sari silk.

The label is white, with the name Keira Wiggins embossed on it.

The spun yarn gathered on the drop spindle gives the impression of a 90's arcade carpet. This is because the recycled silk fibers are brightly colored, and the BFL fleece base is a midnight blue.

#fiberarts #dropspindle #spindlespinning #handspinning #wool #silk #BFLwool #Merino #handspun #KeiraWiggins #Malabrigo

A closup of the Keira Wiggins blend. It looks like 90's arcade carpet.

3 braids of Malabrigo superwash merino. The two on the left are natural white, and the last is jet black.

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I'd say that's pretty leafy so far! Almost done with the little ones. Getting pretty good at those sharp pointed turns 🥰

Dark green bobbin lace in progress. Two strups of peach fabric protect the pencil-bobbins from the pins holding the pattern down. There are several magic-loops of yellow thread, each coming off a pin. Most of the pins are metal with smaller heads, but several pins have brightly colored plastic heads.

#fiberarts #lace #bobbinlace #diy

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Got a new design on the pillow 🥰 My cousin commissioned a lace masquerade mask from me for Halloween, and this is a proof of concept for that mask. Gotta make sure the leaves are leafy!

A close up of a round lace pillow. A bobbin lace pattern is pinned to the center. There are light peach-colored pieces of fabric covering the pins on either side of the pattern card. The pattern is of a floral design.

#fiberarts #diy #bobbinlace #lace

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

New lace on the pillow for the boyfriend's mum 🥰 Used the "spider and line" ground from the Jo Edkins site to make the motif in the center. The edging is @galiciabee.bsky.social's edging for the Mille Arachne bookmark! Her patterns are stunning! Check her out on YouTube too, she's a great teacher!

A close shot of a bobbin lace bookmark in progress.

The lace pillow is bright red, with a rectangle of white paper in the middle that has the pattern. To the left and right of the pattern are gatherings of no.2 pencils acting as lace bobbins.

The actual lace is a rectangle with pointed ends. A lozenge shape? I'm forgetting my geometry. The threads used are cotton embroidery thread in magenta and peach.

The magenta is used for the cloth stitch edging, as well as the half stitch lines between the "spider" motif.

The peach color is used for the spider stitches. I'm using the 8-legged spider pattern here. Along the bottom edge of the lace, where the newest stitches are, there is a gathering of sewing pins holding on the latest stitches.

#lace #bobbinlace #galiciabee #diy #fiberarts #handmade

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Non-English YouTube resources include MundilloLace (Español) and The Lacemaker Diary (Italiano)

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I def recommend to start with diy tools, bobbin lace is a fiddly mistress 🤣 I mostly learned to do it from YouTube (RedCardinalCrafts and Louise West), but the Jo Edkins bobbin lace site really helped me structure my learning, and is a wonderful reference! Plus it has lovely animated diagrams!

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Oof I gotta get back in the habit of posting here. The issues is my brain is occupied fully by bobbin lace 🤣 My Love says it looks like I'm doing brain surgery. As always, descriptions and more deets in the alt-text!

A closeup of a strip of bobbin lace with a pointed end. It is being held down at the edges by a large number of sewing pins. It is made with dark gray cotton embroidery thread.

The lace pattern is made of torchon ground (the netting looking part), with some rose grounds down the center (flowery looking bits).

#fiberarts #handmade #lace #bobbinlace #Torchonlace

A picture of some bobbin lace in progress, the same lace as shown/described in the previous photo. Most materials for it are DIY.

The lace pillow has a base made of 2 cardboard pieces sewn together. On top is a bright red square pillow made from a broken reusable bag and old pillow fluff.

At the bottom of the lace is a group of sewing pins holding the latest stitches in place.

There are two clusters of bobbins, gathered at either side of the end of the lace. The bobbins are a bunch of pencils with thread wrapped around the middle.

None of these tools are perfect, but they do the job! To make patterns for myself, I made a grid on another piece of cardboard. I took a hat pin and poked holes where the lines on the grid crossed.

To use that to make a pattern, i tape a piece of paper over the holes, and shine light through the other so I can see the grid. It's a little wonky, but again, they do the job!

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Hooked back on shuttle tatting, thanks to the new diy celt-ish shuttle! Making some holiday/thank you gifts. Shaped like a celtic tatting shuttle, but way wider than the ones I've seen. Gotta love wood glue, popsicle sticks, and various nail files!

Two different strips of tatting lace. One is a bookmark made of a deep burgundy thread, in an oblong shape, with a tail of the same thread attached at one end. The other is in progress, made of light blue thread, and about half the length of the other. They are different patterns, which im struggling to find the words to describe. My sincerest apologies.

Attached to the light blue lace, is a cardboard bobbin and a wooden tatting shuttle. The tatting shuttle is made of popsicle sticks glued together, then carved with a Swiss army knife and sanded with various grits of nail files. It is a wide version of a celtic-style tatting shuttle.

#tatting #shuttletatting #fiberarts #diy

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Celebrated my bday with my mum, brother, aunt, and boyfriend yesterday! Got to tour the Taza factory, then had a lovely dinner at mum's. Little brother is the best, and printed me the Good & Basic Charkha parts 😍 gonna put it together soon once we get the base and spindles! Xtra info in alt text

3d printed parts for the Good and Basic Charkha spinning wheel. Top and bottom left are the accelerator wheel and drive wheel, respectively. In the center is the maiden and its base. On the top right is a small clear box with the spindle pulley and guard. Below the box is one of the mounts for the wheels.

I am so excited to put this together! I just need a base, some 3/32" steel rods, and some nice glue that'll work with plastic and (probably) wood. I'm gonna spin the last of my alpaca on it and make my brother something very nice for his birthday 🥰 he's a treasure.

#spinning #spinnersofbluesky #fiberarts #charkha #charkhawheel #goodandbasic #3dprinting

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Hit up my local Filipino Grocery today! got some incredible staples. Plus I have to go back soon, those angels have a kitchen in there 😍 I know nothing of Asian brands, but I doubt they'd hate me learning by trial and error 🤣 Got some of the big tapioca boiling right now for bubble tea tomorrow 🥰

Some Asian food staples gotten at Fil-Mart Eatcetera.

Back row (L to R): Instant miso soup, dried shiitake, dried chillies, chilli crisp.

Front row (L to R): Rice vermicelli, canned coconut milk, large tapioca pearls, small tapioca pearls.

#Filipinogrocery #FilMart

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Keep forgetting to post, too busy tinkering! My love's father found his old fly reel and let me borrow it for the diy charkha 🥰 so the creature got an update!

A diy charkha spinning wheel, strapped to a laptop. The main structure is made of knitting needles and popsicle sticks, tied together into a ladder-like frame. There is a ruler strapped across the center for steadiness. The mother of all is a cardboard tube with a plastic straw shoved through it. The spindle is a knitting needle with plastic-lid washers to keep everything on. The new drive wheel is a fly fishing reel tied to the back. I am using some old fly fishing line as a new drive band for better grip.

#spinnersofbluesky #spinningwheel #diy

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I am fueled purely on how slow it is to ply on a drop spindle 🤣 usually I'd try to let that slowness tame my ADHDemons, but I wanna knitting this Shetland into a scarf before the winter holidays lmao.

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

So while my Mum has been offering to get me a spinning wheel for the holidays... That would just rob me of the joy of getting fed up and making my own? (No, I'm super grateful forreal, she's the best) I'm so thankful to all the people online who have posted diy charkha instructions. Y'all rock.

A homemade charkha-like spinning wheel. Bare with me, folks. I'm gonna do my best to describe it.

The base frame is made from two large knitting needles, spaced by popsicle sticks, which are secured with rubber bands. It's all secured with rubber bands. There are so many rubber bands.

The maidens are two fidget spinners arranged vertically parallel to one another. The center grips have been popped out to expose the ball bearing, and another large knitting needle is shoved through it to make the spindle. There is a large bundle of plied yarn on the spindle. The yarn is oatmeal colored Shetland and spun quite fine.

The drive wheel is arranged perpendicular to the spindle and is made out of an old plastic bobbin. It is slotted onto a popsicle stick that is stuck into a third fidget spinner's ball bearing. There is another popsicle stick at the top of the one used for the drive wheel shaft, attached at a 90 degre angle. That one acts like a turning handle for the drive wheel.

Its drive band is yet another rubber band at the moment, but that has its issues and will be replaced soon.

The whole critter is strapped to a laptop, with more rubber bands, to give it some sturdiness.

#spinning #handspinning #spindlespinning #fiberarts #spinnersofbluesky #spinningwheel #charkha #diy

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

No problem! I have personally noticed some loss in heat when cooking the hot peppers for a while, so I recommend only charring those quickly or adding another source of ouch 😊

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I usually do about a 1:3 ratio of water to vinegar and about a teaspoon or two of salt per cup of liquid. I do crank up the vinegar because me and the hubs like a tangy sauce. I'm not a professional of any sort, so as always, pickle at your own risk!

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Seconded heartily, love that smoky crunch.

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I usually wing it! This one has like 10 shishito peppers, 1.5 small red onions, and 2 habañero peppers. Just with like white vinegar water and salt.

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

They're pork tenderloin! And dont worry, they're there for color. I had a thermometer nearby for safety. Nobody was overcooked in the making of this photo 😊

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Rare non-fiber post 🥰 I was absolutely drooling over the grill today. Got stuff going for dinner and also some stuff to make husbando-prime some hot sauce 😍 More info in the alt-text, as is tradition 😘

A grill covered in meat and veggies. At the front is dry-rubbed pork tenderloin. Towards the back are seasoned Zephyr Summer squash and some red onion quarters. On the small rack on the top are shihito peppers and habanero.

The seasoning mix on the pork is garlic and onion powder, s&p, paprika, brown sugar, and oil.

On the squash is garlic and onion powder, s&p, a little lemon juice, and oil.

The peppers and red onion are unseasoned, for they will BECOME the flavor.

#cooking #food #grilling #hotsauce

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

What a lovely problem to have, eh?

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Berry Tired @berrytired.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Ack, been quiet for a while cuz I'm working on a project I can't share. It's for my Mum, and she follows all my socials 🥰 Have some more Shetland progress ❤️ perfect weather to finish off the first 50g of those lovely stuff.

A drop spindle and wool, in a hand, being held up in front of a rain-coated window.

There is a large bundle of oatmeal colored yarn wrapped around the spindle shaft, and gathered above it is Shetland wool roving in the same color.

#yarn #handspunyarn #handspun #handspinning #fiberarts #handmade #spinnersofbluesky #spindlespinning #Shetland

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