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🧵 I couldn’t sleep so I spun the remaining 2 oz of this batt this morning before the sun rose. I’m planning on doing the traditional 2-ply. I absolutely enjoyed all the texture in this batt and excited to see how it plies up. (4/n) #handspun #handspinning

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From Tarndie in Victoria, Australia. Lovingly hand processed by @mellyknits.bsky.social as most of my other batts 💞 According to THE fleece book, Polwarth was developed in Australia and is still common in AU and NZ. It made its way to South America but it says it’s not found in North America. (2/n)

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I’m starting a new spin, it’s Polwarth, from the same grower, but no silk. I wanted to concurrently compare how this polwarth-only batt spins vs. how the pink polwarth + eri silk batt spins. I picked my Woodland snowperson spindle to commemorate the trip we just came back from ☃️ (1/n) #spindle

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Polwarth from Australia, hand dyed by Brambleridge, then hand processed and blended with 15% eri silk by Melly Knits. (2/n) #spindle #spindlespinning #handspun #supportedspindle

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June 쥰 @wipgenerator.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Valentine spin 💗 I felt like starting a pink spin on Feb 14 so I did! (1/n) #spindle #spindlespinning #handspun #supportedspindle

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They have arrived! It’s so fun to mix and match too 🐢 These spindles are from @battyfibers.bsky.social #spindles #handspun #turkishspindle

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I don’t remember anything about this breed except that it’s endearingly called Mega Mutt; @royalbb.bsky.social do you remember? I acquired 1 lb from Nellie some time ago after having trouble scouring my lanolin-heavy merino & felt like I needed an easier-to-work-with fleece (2/n) #fleeceprocessing

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Having a drum carder is making me into a different person. I’m giving scouring another try. (1/n) #fleeceprocessing

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This is how the fiber braids looked like before being spun up! (5/n) #bayshorebandanacowl #crochet

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June 쥰 @wipgenerator.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I wound up the second skein of my handspun to continue my shawl. I’m going to start decreasing soon 🐰 The MC is handspun (a combo spin of two Nest Fiber braids) and CC is Gilliat in the colorway baleine bleue. (4/n) #bayshorebandanacowl #crochet

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Alternatively, putting the silk down first and then wool on top also worked as well as sandwiching! (8/n) #drumcarding #fleeceprocessing #handspun

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June 쥰 @wipgenerator.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Per @senesced.bsky.social ‘s recommendation, I sandwiched the silk (similar amount) in between wool. This was great success! Everything got transferred over to the main drum (7/n) #drumcarding #fleeceprocessing #handspun

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June 쥰 @wipgenerator.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I tried adding only a very lil amount of silk. But when fed in on top of the wool like shown below, I still found that most of the silk would stay on the licker-in. (6/n) #drumcarding #fleeceprocessing #handspun

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How it’s going! I’ve reached ~24 inches of depth. (3/n) #bayshorebandanacowl #crochet

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25ish grams of washed fleece on the bottom, and 25ish grams of picked open fleece on the top! The first couple weeks I had my carder, I was so impatient to card that I picked quickly in haste but today I took a couple hours to do it slowly & it felt so relaxing 😌 (4/n) #fleeceprocessing #handspun

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I’m picking it open with my hands (instead of using my Lock Pop, which I also love) because I want to maximize feeling the wool texture. It can be very soothing to focus on the texture your hands are feeling and I’m craving that today. (2/n) #drumcarder #fleeceprocessing #handspun

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Next up is 50g of Corriedale! @pacific-coaster.bsky.social picked it up for me from Fibres West 2023(?) and it’s been waiting for its spa time for a while now. I still haven’t spun my carded batts but I really felt like touching more wool this morning. (1/n) #drumcarder #fleeceprocessing #handspun

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After trying blending sari silk and bombyx silk in my first couple of carding projects, I wanted to do 100% wool for my next one. This is Bond washed by Clemes and Clemes (their Good Clean Fiber). It indeed was v good and v clean, almost no VMs even! (1/n) #drumcarder #fleeceprocessing #handspun

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Sample spun a lil bit on my WW drop spindle which feels like a perfect match (4/n) #drumcarder #fleeceprocessing #handspun #dropsindle #spindlespinning

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This is how the washed fleece looked before carding. I carded all the fleece, but only used about one third or half of the silk (5-7g). I hope to blend it with some other project in the future. (3/n) #drumcarder #fleeceprocessing #handspun

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It was my first time carding (or touching!) gulf coast native and it was a dream: so soft, so POUFY! It’s my first time carding anything on my own independently these days, but I’ve done cvm once before in a class. Love the smooth texture of cvm tooooo (2/n) #drumcarder #fleeceprocessing #handspun

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June 쥰 @wipgenerator.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My first carded up @mellyknits.bsky.social Guts 🍵 blending 15g of bombyx silk was a bit daunting for me so I blended a lil bit and fed the silk directly onto the main drum. The silk streaks turned out quite cute though! (1/n) #drumcarder #fleeceprocessing #handspun

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I mean come on. This is simply so freaking beautiful. The colorway is called Changing Leaves. @battyfibers.bsky.social (2/n) #handspun #spindlespinning

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June 쥰 @wipgenerator.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🧵 Spinning this @battyfibers.bsky.social sock batt (51% romney, 43% corriedale, 6% mohair) on my Enid Ashcroft cross-armed spindle has been such a soothing exercise 💛 (1/n) #spindlespinning #handspun

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June 쥰 @wipgenerator.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The first ever harvest from our little lemon tree 💛

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Wheel spinning becomes a workout when there’s a cat on your lap

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American Bond x BFL from Willow Creek Farm, CO + a touch of sari silk

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350 days out of the year I live carefree about my countless WIPs but there are few days when even I get overwhelmed by the loose ends (literally and figuratively). Today is one of them. I may be looking at a day of plying in front of me (or give up 10 min into it due to my attention span) #handspun

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