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1 minute 11 seconds in, I subscribe. You so are top notch!

I am so greatful for your episodes! I have learned sooooo much from you. And your explanations are incredibly clear. I appreciate your honesty and opinions as well. I am just so happy to come across your channel! Blessing to you!

Your handspun.......is......STUNNING! I feel in awe of your spinning. I am immensely inspired by your color combos. And I appreciate that you embrace all colors and not just one singular genre. Thank you for explaining about the pressed flowers..... I am going to do that myself when I get to that project 👍🏼question soat I can understand you correctly...... you keep saying "we", so do you have a partner that does all of these gorgeous creations with you? Or is "we" in reference to yourself? I would like to represent you correctly. Thank you for every single video! Blessings!

Wow! So much to comment on. One, I think your pressed flowers cardigan is awesome. The extra time and thought and energy you put into making the flowers line up and continue to flow really makes a difference. I've seen so many of these projects where the sleeves don't line up with the fronts of the sweater, and I think it just looks tacky. Yours has class! My two cents on the yarn for the Hermione socks: the speckled/light colored yarn will work. You will still see the stitch pattern. The more strongly variegated yarn will hide the stitch pattern. Spinning: I’m not a "pink person" but your yarns would turn me into one. Just gorgeous. And I love your experiments with the combo spins. I’m envisioning them in a fade sweater, if you were going to use them together. Any of them would be fab for colorwork. The blocks for the patchwork sweater are so cool. Your color palette is going to make such a beautiful collection of blocks. Finally, you explain yourself quite well, and I have no trouble following you or your explanations. I wonder if you are a visual thinker who thinks more in images and sensations than in words. Your color sense in your spinning and knitting also makes me think your brain leans in that direction. I definitely think in images and pictures, including sensory images, and sometimes it’s hard to put what I'm thinking into words. I totally relate to the whole “words!” exasperation when the translation just won’t work. There's a very interesting book about visual thinkers and how our gifts aren’t recognized, by Temple Grandin. It helped me accept and appreciate how my brain works. Thanks for a lovely evening filled with your beautiful things! harpingJanet

I love your pressed flowers cardigan,the colours are gorgeous,you are a fantastic spinner. I have everything ready for my pressed flowers just need to cast on now ❤

First time viewer. Jimi Hendrix shirt and the funny opening hooked me. 😂 Your Heirloom Quilt Cardigan is going to be gorgeous.

I love it! The pressed cardigan. I have thought about making it but now seeing it in hand spun really makes me want to make it!💜

Aweee the combo spin is beautiful!they are my favorite

You are top knotch! :) just putting your time in for us is appreciated! I learn soo much

I love your videos so much. It really is like sitting down and chatting with a friend!

Your pressed flowers is beautiful ❤ and you may have already answered this and if so sorry for asking again. Why do you do smaller skeins of handspun vs the full 100g?

You’re such a scientist, I love all the experiments!

I love your videos sooo much! I am in Florida in the winter Indialantic how far are you?

Wow! You have done a lot this year already! I so enjoyed seeing your spinning experiments and samples. Congrats on getting all your fleeces scoured - that's a major accomplishment. The yarns you are planning for the heritage cardigan are going to be perfect for it, if your first yarn is any indication of what you will be creating. I hope you will keep a record of how you are planning and what you are doing with making the yarn for it - that will add so much to its legacy. Thanks for a lovely evening. harpingJanet

Hey, what kind of wheel do you have?

What wheel are you spinning with? What wheel is right in front of you?

Thank you grist makes sense

Thanks again for a fabulous episode! I am just getting caught up after some busy holidays, new grand baby and COVID! Soo I appreciate all you do!💜🥰❤️

I always find you entire podcast interesting and learn sooo much! I am going to finally do some blending with my alpaca! Thank you for the knowledge and inspiration 💜🥰❤️

I love your podcast … 😊 it was so lovely to watch! Your spinning is goals for me! Can’t wait for your next episode!!

Commenting from quite some time in the future to when this was uploaded; but I'm curious, do you notice much of a difference spinning from hand carded preps vs drum carded preps? Enjoying watching your stuff :)

It’s a cold snowy Sunday morning in the Midwest, just sat down with coffee and thought I was going to knit a few rows until I came across your video! Instead I got my ECHO out with some BFL I started this week! It was lovely spinning with you! I am a 1 year spinner and still learning, I received my Echo in Oct and I LOVE IT!❤

I am a weaver. I decided that wool spinning would be fun in order to make start to finish scarves and shawls. I have a Schacht Ladybug coming in about 6 weeks. I am devouring spinning videos because I feel like a fish out of water. I am retired and this seems a whole lot better use of my time than making birdhouses! LOL😅

This was a wonderful video! I learned so much. I’ve been spinning, now I’m in the middle of a sweaters quantity, and I just got an espinner for Christmas and I love it! The Sparrow. I’m trying to learn chain plying.

Lovely podcast!! Very helpful❤️

So happy to see your video pop up! I’m so inspired by all of your amazing projects! Good luck with the leg warmers

OK your Sunday sweater is so cute, I want to make one now! And YAS, isn't that green the perfect color for a hat?! For some reason it goes with everything 💚 So THE REPORT: I HAVE noticed an improvement in my ribbing with the short tips! I'm super surprised, but it's just comfier for me to hold and I feel like it's made a big difference (!!!). I even used short tips for the 1x1 body ribbing of my Louvre sweater and could even tell a huge difference there! You should give it a try and let me know what you think! P.S. KFO mohair is totally my favorite commercial mohair...it doesn't bother my skin at all, hope you have the same experience 😊

Thanks, Kristan, for giving us an episode in the midst of Thanksgiving doing. I love your swatch for the pressed flowers cardigan. And your Alpenglow jumper is gorgeous. I'd love it if you could report on how the new mohair feels and whether you decide you can wear it, or not. So far, I've not been able to tolerate mohair for all the prickles and itching. It would be wonderful to know if this was worth trying. Good luck with clearing your needles and finishing the gift hats. Happy Thanksgiving and Christmas decorating, harpingJanet

Your Alpenglow turned out amazing! I love your color combo. I may have to copy you! ❤

Thanks for the fun update!

My daughter is dancing the nutcracker this year too. She's 3 and is so excited. I hope she sticks with it. Those leg warmers are going to be amazing for dance 😊

That green hat looks so cute on you!😊

Just found you Kristan. Your channel is what I've been looking for since I started spinning. I love your philosophy about knitting with your spun yarn. I am trying hard to do this, otherwise I will drown in skeins of spun fibre. I was also so thrilled to finally have the calculation for working out grist. I kept doing an approximate measure, but you have given me a more accurate way of working it out. So happy with that. Please stick with your passion and remember that there are lots of us out here who want to spin and knit or crochet with the yarn we make. I'm currently knitting Caitlin Hunter's Alpine Bloom using my handspun along with a commercial yarn. It just makes the whole experience so pleasant when you see your handspun come to life. Thank you for your efforts. I think the advertisements are unavoidable. K

New Spinner here... I would die of happiness if you wanted to give away a bunch of fiber!

Wonderful episode. How do you calculate your total yardage for your spinning? I am trying to learn how to do that when it comes to my own spinning,thanks 😊

I have a single treadle (Ashford Traditional) and I just used both feet on it together. Maybe this is bad, but it works for me!

Always happy to find a new episode of yours :) Love all your sampling experiences !! Have been spinning a few speed dates from Mellyknits, but you inspire me to try out mixing some fibres on my own too and see the results!

Sometimes frogging brings me almost as much joy as a cast on 😊 go with your gut! It’s all part of the experience. I enjoy your podcasts ❤ from Australia

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I just found your channel it’s so informative I just got back into spinning I will try to spin for a shawl

Thank you for this episode. Your leaf top is so beautiful! I totaly agree with you on the size inclusiveness. Sizes go waaay up, which is good, but I'm tall and slim and lots of patterns are not designed for my shape. Oh well, each time I get better at making modifications I suppose. :)

The new sweater is gorgeous! I hope it ends up being exactly what you want. Thanks for more info on splitting braids. It's particularly helpful that you differentiate between spinning for spinning's sake, and spinning for a particular purpose, like the colorwork yoke, and how that helps you decide how to split the braid. My big take-away from that part of the discussion is that I need to consider do I want long color repeats or short / shorter color repeats. You are helping me grow from the stage of "Oh, I'm making yarn. What a miracle!" to beginning to consider what characteristics I might want my yarn to have. Thank you! harpingJanet

I really love your channel. It's so great to see more spinning-focused content! You had a question about hand-painted cotton sliver being sticky and hard to spin. I have encountered this frequently. I learned a helpful trick from @longdrawjames, in one of his videos, and wanted to share it. Put the sliver in a lingerie bag, throw it in the dryer with a damp towel, and run it for 10-15 minutes. This really fluffs up the cotton and makes it much easier to spin. I hope this helps!

I love your videos - thanks for making them. My question is this: I want to start spinning but it's a lot of initial cost.What should I buy first? Thank you!

Thanks for another great episode! I feel like I’m always bookmarking them for good information to come back for when I need it!

So excited to see another Floridian! 🌴🌞🍊😁

Love your leaf top, it looks great on you. Your handspun is fab too, thanks for sharing 😊

Thanks for another reason to rewind before plying. The sample I recently plied gave me much too much practice with spit splicing my single back together. Some of it was due to spinner error, but some was from tugging what was adequately twisted yarn from the bobbin. I now have the bobbing winder like yours, and bobbins, so I will be rewinding from now on. I love your cotton leaf top. It looks cool and flowing and perfect for days when it is too hot to wear clothes. I hope the current new colorwork sweater wip ends up blocking so that you like the fit better. It’s so frustrating to really like what a sweater looks like on a model, only to find out that it looks crappy on you. Your mom will be one lucky camper if you give her the Shifty sweater for Christmas. I'm just rambling now, so I'll quit. Thanks for a new episode and helping me become a better spinner! harpingJanet

All of it is soo goood!!! I have a question about keeping your back healthy when spending many hours spinning. I want to spin more but i find my back gets really sore. Do you have any tips or tricks for healthy posture and avoiding back pain when spinning? ❤

Thank you for another wonderful podcast! So informative and your yarns are beautiful!