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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

four down, four to go before I can make my big swatch. these colors are hard to photograph, my lights too warm and I don't want to take them outside because Summer II Back With A Vengeance is in town this week and it's Hot. #handspinning

Four skeins of chunky textured handspun yarn in light green, grey, dark brown, and blue-black in front of four bundles of spinning fiber in yellow, blue, light brown and deep teal.

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

testing out this fiber for my sweater spin and ohhhhhh it's lovely. this is bread and butter merino from AVFKW and it really is *buttery* #handspinning

a spinning wheel bobbin half full of mint green handspun singles. the tail has been left to ply back on itself in a pigtail, showing what the yarn might look like when plied

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

no longer just a pile of yarn, now it's a pile of warp chains. I still need to figure out how I'm going to sett it and what to do about the boucle (I suspect it's not going to fit through the heddles) it's getting more blanket shaped, very exciting. #handspinning #weaving

chunky handspun yarn being measured on a warping board. The yarn gradually transitions from grey to white across the width of the warp.

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

really excited to see how this weaves up. I *think* this is all the fiber I had set aside, I should go check. hopefully I can start warping this weekend and because it's So Chunky that should go fast. #handspinning #ArtYarn

a great big skein of chunky handspun spiral yarn in natural white

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

more texture for the big ass pile of chunky handspun I'm accumulating. most of it has been two ply but this is spiraled because plying has been too boring and easy lately. this, in contrast, is a pain in the ass. #handspinning

two skeins of chunky spiral coil yarn next to a bobbin of thick and thin singles in natural white wool

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

still on a chunky yarn kick, apparently these were corriedale + grey batte, now they're chunky 2 ply. I'm thinking of a weaving project to use them, maybe a thick and thin plainweave #handspinning

three big skeins and one small skein of chunky handspun 2 ply yarn with a lot of texture. One of the skeins is on top of the others and is a white to grey gradient, while the other skeins are light grey

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Freya's little helper strikes again. I'm trying to sort out my spinning for today, and all this one wants to do is get blitzed on wool fumes #handspinning

a brown tabby cat lying on a thick grey woolen batt, paws sinking into the fluff

a brown tabby cat, face planted in a fluffy grey wool batt

a brown tabby cat lying on a fluffy grey wool batt, looking up with her eyes half open and a distinct lack of focus

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Freya's little helper was very polite while I was spinning today. she is proud to report that this yarn passes the sniff test. #handspinning

a fluffy brown cat sitting next to two skeins of fluffy brown handspun alpaca yarn

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

alpaca & merino crepe, a little under spun for fluffiness. this is the first half, there's another big bobbin to ply but my ankles are done for the day. I'm running low on this laceweight merino so there's a subtle self-striping effect. this skein is […] [Original post on toots.ravenoak.dev]

a fat skein of fluffy faun-colored alpaca handspun yarn, plied with ivory and grey merino

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

made a big pile of batts for #handspinning - think I'll make more before I start spinning because these bonbons always go fast. planning a cozy sweatshirt type project. or a woven blanket. I have a lot of this wool to use up.

a wooden bowl full of grey wool batts, twisted into little bun shapes to keep them tidy.

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

#HotDogResearchThursday is back and the theme today is Bulgarian Grilled Meats. It starts with a generous scoop of lutenitsa (roasted pepper spread) mixed with a little mayo, chopped peppers, onions, and tomato, plus sharena sol. the hot dog sits on top of […] [Original post on toots.ravenoak.dev]

two hot dogs garnished with onion, tomato, and feta cheese

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

can you imagine, a birthday present completed more than a month in advance?! unheard of. unprecedented. #handspinning #knitting

a mannequin wearing a small light blue shawl with geometric lace patterns throughout

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@ggggbbybby/1171412082… this is probably the fastest TDF finished object I've made. usually my handspun gets to sit around and age for a bit (sometimes forever) before it knows what it wants to be.

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

fin fact: rosie loves alpaca. she loves it so much. I'm pretty happy with how this came out too. this is a 3-ply crepe with two merino/silk plies and one slightly thicker alpaca ply. #Handspinning

a skein of silver, brown, and red handspun yarn, and a furry cat foot next to it

a skein of handspun yarn partially obscured by a cat with a fluffy belly standing over it

a jumbo spinning wheel bobbin mostly full of brown, silver, and red crepe yarn

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

was looking for something to pair with my shiny shiny silk. I had a little bit of alpaca fleece and I'm remembering now why someone gave it to me for free. it is filthy. it's real pretty though, the dust and the vm should wash out. #Handspinning

a spinning wheel with a half full bobbin of dark brown-black alpaca yarn, with lots of little bits of grass

my hand in front of my spinning wheel, showing the dust and dirt caked onto my thumb and index fingre

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

#handspinning crunchy bulky wool - the big ply is black welsh mountain, the grey ply is idk some nonspecific roving and the tan is just some yarn Rosie's been kicking around. pretty.

two big skeins and one little skein of three ply handspun yarn: one thick dark brown ply, one fluffy grey ply, and one smooth tan ply.

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

RE: toots.ravenoak.dev/@rebecca/1171007… there's a new toy in my 'digital textiles' toolbox. it's a #pico8 game for messing around with double two-tie twills. #weaving

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

#HotDogResearchThursday with pickle salad (kosher pickles, cascabella peppers, peppercinis, pickled onion, raw onion, a little mayo) tomato, sharena sol, and mustard. very refreshing!

Two hot dogs on toasted buns, topped with mustard and tomato slices

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

progress! the texture is getting better, or maybe I'm just getting used to it. #handspinning #knitting #wip

a light blue crescent shaped shawl on circular knitting needles, sitting on a table next to a ball of fuzzy handspun yarn

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

I have a confession: I don't actually knit with my handspun yarn much. something about the texture makes my hands itch, maybe I add too much twist idk but this is the perfect color for a birthday present for my mom so I am dealing with it. It's going to […] [Original post on toots.ravenoak.dev]

a crescent shaped bit of knitting in light blue yarn, with a garter stitch border running along the straight edge and lines of lace radiating from the center

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

it's in the dryer right now but the shirt I just dyed has a cat face on the back and omg it's like a little hobbes

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

how is your saturday going? I had a cheese and tomato sandwich and then I built a tiny fry stand out of daiso off-brand legos they only have the front picture on the packaging so learning that there are tiny ketchup bottles and frying pans inside was a fun surprise

a tiny fry kiosk made of legos, next to a can of coke (the can of coke is taller than the model). it has fries coming out of the top of the stand, a sign that says FRIES, and a menu board with small/medium/large combos, and two seats for customers out in front

a tiny fry kiosk made of blocks, showing the inside with a detailed computer screen for ordering, frying pans and scissors (I don't know how those are used for making the fries) and condiment bottles

the inside of a tiny fry stand made of blocks, with an ordering screen and bottles of condiments

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

it looks like it's going to be hot all week which is bad news for me but good news for the ice dyeing I'm doing. this is a lime green volunteer shirt, and if I tied it right, it'll have star armpits and if I tied it wrong it'll have funky pentagons. good either way. #IceDye

a shirt tied up in a double mandala pattern, lying in a tray of melted ice and dye

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

today's spinning for #TourDeFleece is tiny and fluffy. not going to fill up the bobbin today, or tomorrow, maybe it'll be done by the end of the month. maybe. my thighs are tired. #handspinning #tourdefleece2026

a mostly empty spinning wheel bobbin with fuzzy grey wool spun very fine. There's a penny tucked under two strands and the yarn is about the same size as the text on the penny.

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

this is black welsh mountain and it's delightful. so sheepy! (it came from a sheep named Teryn in fact) I have about 8 oz, I think if I ply it with something else I'll have enough for a vest maybe. if I had more it would be a good rug. hmmmm. 🤔 #tourdefleece #handspinning #tourdefleece2026

a spinning wheel bobbin full of dark brown-black yarn

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

today's #TourDeFleece is powered entirely by spite and a desire to win an argument on the internet. this is Bubble Crepe (not to be confused with Bouclé) #tourdefleece2026 #handspinning

a jumbo spinning wheel bobbin wound with rainbow bubble crepe yarn

a wooden spinning wheel bobbin wound with chunky rainbow singles wool

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

#TourDeFleece another skein finished. they go so fast when they're big and chunky like this! When I was spinning it, there was a lot of purple throughout the fiber even though the overall color is blue-green. I had the exact same purple in my weaving […] [Original post on toots.ravenoak.dev]

a skein of chunky blue and green and purple yarn with an interesting lumpy texture

three balls of spinning fiber and a tag describing the fiber content: 60% superwash merino, 30% bamboo rayon, 10% nylon

a jumbo spinning wheel bobbin filled with thread-plied blue and green yarn

a jumbo spinning wheel bobbin filled with cabled blue and green yarn

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

not going to spin into the wee hours today, because it's Hot. and I'm Tired. so I'll finish this bobbin tomorrow and then I'll decide how to ply it - right now I'm thinking maybe a bubble crepe. this colorway is called Abalone and it's very pretty. #TourDeFleece #handspinning #tourdefleece2026

a spinning wheel bobbin mostly full of shiny blue-green singles

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

it's probably the 1 AM fumes but this might be my favorite yarn ever? cause wow 😍 #tourdeFleece #tourdefleece2026 #handspinning

a skein of chunky rainbow handspun bouclé yarn

a jumbo bobbin wound with chunky handspun rainbow bouclé yarn

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

during #TourDeFleece remember to take breaks and stretch. I did this whole bobbin and now my butt hurts. 🙃 #tourdefleece2026 #handspinning

a jumbo bobbin mostly full of rainbow spiral-plied yarn

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

I think it's technically a rest day for #TourDeFleece but whatever. These singles have too much twist (on purpose) and they'll turn into a fun boucle. #tourdefleece2026 #handspinning

vibrant rainbow single-ply yarn wound on a spinning wheel bobbin

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

was jonesing for a proper bouclé spin after yesterday's whoopsie, so I pulled out a trash batt and made sixty yards of sheepy silliness. I'll make something pretty tomorrow. #TourDeFleece #Handspinning #boucle

a large plastic bobbin on a spinning wheel half full of lumpy grey bouclé yarn

sixty yards of lumpy grey wool bouclé yarn wound on a niddy noddy

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

#TourDeFleece I was going to boucle this but I forgot how to do the first plying step and I did not bother to read my notes so it's just a simple spiral ply. it's pretty like this. it'll weave up into something interesting if Rosie doesn't steal it and […] [Original post on toots.ravenoak.dev]

a spinning wheel bobbin half-full of single-ply chunky rainbow yarn

a spinning wheel bobbin half full of spiral plied rainbow yarn

a small skein of rainbow spiral plied yarn, sitting on a very smug looking cat

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

for #HotDogResearchThursday we're having spicy peanut sauce and mustard fried peppers and onions on these dogs. the peppers are incredibly sweet and they were grown by a friend ❤️

two hot dogs covered in chopped peppers and onions and a corn cob

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

I wish plying was not so tedious. It doesn't take nearly as long as spinning the singles but it's _boring_ and that's worse. I like how this is turning out though. that blue-green is pretty. #TourDeFleece #handspinning #tourdefleece2026

a wooden spinning wheel bobbin half full of blue-green hand spun 2-ply wool

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

catching up on my #TourDeFleece posts because it's time to ply. the blurple on the bobbins is polwarth and the fluffy blue plying ball is merino that I took on a road trip. these little supported spindles are great for car spinning. #tourdefleece2026 #handspinning

two bobbins of blue-green singles and a double-stranded ball of light blue yarn

a small wooden spindle lying across a matching lap bowl on my lap. the spindle is wound with light blue/lavender yarn.

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

the previous two poems are from a book I got on a trip to massachusetts, probably Boswell's books in Shelburne. Boswell is a very pretty tuxedo cat. I buy poetry by going to a used bookstore and leafing through until I find something that jumps out at me and those two poems were on opposite […]

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Life in the Stewpot, also by Margaret Szumonski #poetry Red Onion's the most brilliant. She's full of flavor, sharp, hard-to-get-along with and will definitely make you cry. I like her -- she's ruthless, and she bites. She can insinuate herself into any stew-pot and get lots of attention. Some […]

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Zampiceni's Marketplace, by Margaret Szumonski #poetry Husbands think cold supermarkets, shivering wives, wives crimped in curlers picking out sauerkraut, pickles and boxes of dry noodles, white-aproned men packing wives' cans into dry paper. But Zampiceni's is Kinshasa, Kisangani, Dar es […]

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

doing some poetry posting because I don't think these are on the internet anywhere and I want to be able to post them somewhere else

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

road trip spinning for #TourDeFleece - it's hot as balls today but I really enjoy all this sunshine. #handspinning #tourdefleece2026

a wooden spindle wound with blue-lavender yarn, sitting on top of a green glass lap bowl.

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

day 2 of #TourDeFleece, mostly the same as day 1. I thought this would be more purple, judging from the braid, but its all blending in with the blue #handspinning #tourdefleece2026

a half-full bobbin and a braid of spinning fiber sitting on top of a wooden spinning wheel. the yarn and fiber are mostly blue with bits of olive-brown and purple

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

it's day one of #TourDeFleece where I try to spin every day for the next three weeks. no particular goals other than making yarn. my day one is for finishing off whatever is currently on my wheel: in this case it's some squishy hand dyed polwarth. #handspinning #tourdefleece2026

a wooden spinning wheel with a braid of blue, purple, and green spinning fiber sitting on top and a half-full bobbin wound with yarn in those same colors.

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rebecca @rebecca.toots.ravenoak.dev.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

I don't know that I planned it, but this came out as a kind of a fancy hoodie type sweater. very wearable. great success. #Knitting #Skelfigan

I'm standing in front of the camera wearing a olive-greenish cardigan with vining cables traveling up the fronts and a cozy shawl collar

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