ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 16/01/2026hello from twitter! [twitter keeps being down]media.tenor.coma man wearing a hat and a tank top is standing in front of a body of waterALT: a man wearing a hat and a tank top is standing in front of a body of water 010
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 05/01/2025that temp isn’t so bad where i live now. humidity would be single digits. if humid tho it’s miserable. 100
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 05/01/2025i just measured them taking notes of their width (shown) and length, so i can come up with a plan. never knitted a sweater! i bought the yarn variety to figure out which sheep i wanted, and how i might want to spin. i got them ecru to learn dyeing with. 000
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 05/01/2025family was asked about new year’s resolutions. i said to learn to dye yarn (bought a natural kit in summer 2021) and to knit a sweater out of this sampler i have (bought late 2022) which will be dyed. each of the 12 yarns will be a different color. 170
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 03/01/2025ios text completion does this too. as i’m typing another letter i see my wanted word then i touch it but it’s something else! 010
Reposted by ashleyashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 02/01/2025love this little spindle. spun 46 yards of ultra fine yarn with it. about 45 wraps per inch. estimate 720 yards per 50 grams. for comparison, malabrigo lace is about 30 wpi and 470 yards. this looks comparable to a single ply of 2/18 weaving yarn, which i also measured at 45 wpi. 031
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 02/01/2025love this little spindle. spun 46 yards of ultra fine yarn with it. about 45 wraps per inch. estimate 720 yards per 50 grams. for comparison, malabrigo lace is about 30 wpi and 470 yards. this looks comparable to a single ply of 2/18 weaving yarn, which i also measured at 45 wpi. 031
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 28/12/2024went to the local rural art gallery, having a fiber show right now. bought some variegated wool to spin (i’ve only spun undyed so far). the blue is super fine, the red is sorta fine. there’s some incredibly cheap handspun yarn for sale, but it’s also incredibly coarse. 020
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 26/12/2024also these carders are stupid small. makes the techniques i see hard to do as there isn’t enough depth, and they only hold like a gram of fiber. but a cheap introduction, and i was concerned my matted fleece might mess them up (it did not). i think i do want to buy good ones. 000
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 26/12/2024so much kemp in that last sample. it doesn’t always twist lock, so it definitely should be plied, maybe with better yarn. all the comb waste is also short fibers. i wouldn’t use any of it in knitting, just as weft for low-wear items (curtains, placemats, etc). 100
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 26/12/2024i carded waste wool and spun it. closest to the whorl was already there. then there’s fairly nice soft waste from combs (second pic). then commercial merino top scraps (not pictured). and finally some of the worst waste from the combs (last 2 pics), full of kemp and matted bits. 150
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 25/12/2024merry christmas! i got a couple books and some mini wool carders. 070
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 23/12/2024room is a mess, but i could just build it into the support beams here. 90 inches of space in the closest area, 79 inches further back. or i could try double-weave on a backstrap, but i’d have to make a new one of those as mine is like 22". might as well make a weighted loom. 100
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 23/12/2024i think i will see how it weaves up, too. and then idk make a warp weighted loom so i can weave 5 feet wide. 110
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 23/12/2024of course, after spinning 5kg of wool i’m sure i’d be much faster. i’ve probably spun at most 500 grams, including on spindles. 100
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 23/12/2024made 59 grams of chunky 2-ply yarn on the wheel. malabrigo rios for scale in the third pic. knitted some up on 6 mm needles. was thinking of making a blanket. math from this sample says i’d need 5 kg. that’d take me a solid week to spin. as in no sleep, no eat. 😂 1130
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 21/12/2024you can just comb your hair from your comb into some merino and spin it if you want to 010
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024and dylann was convicted for a bunch of federal hate crimes with the death penalty, and forever in jail in south carolina 000
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024ignorant take trying to stir shit up. the 2022 buffalo tops shooting is very similar to the charleston church shooting, and in the same state as the ceo assassination so we can more fairly compare. and he was charged with terrorism. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Bu...en.m.wikipedia.org2022 Buffalo shooting - Wikipedia 101
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024grabbed some cotton yarn the other night when i tied up the multicolored skein i added twist to before wetting and thwacking it. 010
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024got excited about this, having a strong interest in tools i can make myself for wool. but this seems to only be for carding woven wool fabric (after fulling?) to loosen it up some so it’s more airy, hence warmer. 110
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024media.tenor.coma close up of a woman 's face with a disney logo on the bottom rightALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a disney logo on the bottom right 010
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024my never-ending darning project that got me into fiber arts: this smartwool hoodie 040
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024me, thinking nothing of it: “so i tied it up in 4 places, got it wet, and thwacked it.” my spouse:media.tenor.coma close up of a man in a suit and tie talking into a microphone .ALT: a close up of a man in a suit and tie talking into a microphone . 120
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024yes but this is commercial yarn. still, i was amazed at the difference when i first washed my early yarn. went from seeming like junk to usable! 010
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 18/12/202480 minutes for 150 yards definitely something to do while watching tv or chatting 000
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024when i went to buy more, i noticed this colorway was cancelled, so i bought the remaining stock at one place. 12 skeins! got one in a ball as pictured. the other 11 look all pale. but it looks like that after a couple washings, anyway.skeins.got 010
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024used the wheel to give this 1/3 skein yarn more twist. i use it for darning, figure it’ll hold up better this way. added less twist than i thought after wetting and thwacking it. 2100
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 15/12/2024family watching some bbc historical show: “they mix wood ash in water, and they get caustic soda to clean dishes with” me, in the next room spinning yarn: “THEY DO NOT GET CAUSTIC SODA. THAT’S SODIUM HYDROXIDE! THEY GET POTASH, POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE!” 1392
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 15/12/2024weaving, knitting, sewing, crocheting… just missing some felting! 120
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 15/12/2024finally got the tree decorated 🎄 (why we did it with muse playing… idk) 040
Reposted by ashleyG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 12/12/2024A great pet peeve of mine is when clothing companies refer to plastic garments as "vegan leather." Throwing a virtuous health halo around a petroleum product is wild. Next it'll be all-natural organic cyanide 591283187
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 14/12/2024decided to comb a bit of raw fleece to compare it to what i scoured. went faster by weight, but of course it’s dirty and greasy. wasn’t that dirty tho. 000
Reposted by ashleySeelix the Seventh @seelix.com · 12/12/2024I did not sufficiently think through the implications of a niddy noddy with satisfied little faces 710121
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024okay but the sheep i know and i just combed more wool from one i sheared myself! and my dog is a lab. hair too short really. 000
ashley @rabcyr.bsky.social · 10/12/2024once again switching to twitter to DM an image to someone on here 200
