Hi, like many I have knitted since childhood, learning from my Grandmother. How things have changed! I have moved from big commercial suppliers to more local to me, in Devon, with a good ethical service. Learning to spin would be the next step of my learning. Love your designs and look forward to the next episode.
Hallo and congratulations Caroline! As you’ll see in my latest video, you’ve won the giveaway! Please send me a message or email and we’ll work out postage details ❤️
My great-grandmother spinned and weaved blankets for her entire village, I grew up listening stories regarding her and her work, unfortunately all the tools have been lost after she left this world, but the imaginary stayed and as long as I remember that I want to learn how to spin and weave :) never got the courage to do it, but maybe this is the time! :) thank you & all the best!
I really hope you are able to have a go with some spinning. I started last year and haven't looked back. It really is so calming and meditative (at least, once you get past the initial frustration when learning 😂). All the best!
Hi Marina thank you for keeping me company today while I had my morning coffee, I enjoyed watching you spinning, I spin for my time out it helps me unwind. In Australia we mostly have merino wool your box of different fleece sample pack looked very interesting. I have enjoyed looking at your garden I have possumns and cows that eat everything they can find.
The meditative element of spinning is what fascinates me. I’ve spun on a wheel but drop spindle is something I’m interested in too. Your videos inspire my love for the fibre arts and I thank you for that ❤
Thank you! I must remember to grab a few moments in the garden for the next episode before we lose all the leaves!
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I have recently learned to spin a few weeks ago and absolutely fell in love with the process but also with the outcome. There is something very special about hand spun yarn as I feel it carries a little bit of soul of the person spinning it. I would love an opportunity to experiment with different fibres as well trying out a drop spindle! Lovely video Marina 🩷🩷
Love the little headband! ❤ Obsessed with how you spin, must try this. I have bought Solace recently but I’m savoring it until I get a little better at backward drawing. ❤
Hi, like many I have knitted since childhood, learning from my Grandmother. How things have changed! I have moved from big commercial suppliers to more local to me, in Devon, with a good ethical service. Learning to spin would be the next step of my learning. Love your designs and look forward to the next episode.
So lovely to see all of the lovely work you're doing both with the woollies and with the flowies! That is such a generous gift from you/Whingham. I have always had exactly one thing on my 'bucket list', and it is: making a sweater where I do the entire process myself - shearing the sheep (or maybe just being present for the shearing, I don't want to stress out cuddly sheepies), processing and spinning the wool, dyeing (or not), designing, and then knitting the sweater. I think I may have been inspired to want to do this from a children's book of my childhood called Pelle's New Suit from Elsa Beskow, where a little boy has a little lamb that needs sheering, and he then visits all of his family members and neighbours with the wool to do part of the process whilst he does a chore for them, and it's just such a lovely book. (Also, this is me wanting to enter into the spinning stuff.)
It was love at first sight with your cardigan, and halfway through the episode I purchased the pattern and yarn (and a braid of fiber). The buttons! Lilliput Wight was nearby to your stall at Wonderwool - such pretty items. Spinning…I took a weekend workshop just after having my first baby 20 years ago, and the spinning wheel sat silent, enduring several house moves. We moved from the US to the UK 2 years ago and my wheel and carders are in the process of being shipped now so I can try again, since my children are older and I have more time. I’ve also just scoured a fleece from our neighbor’s flock. We are lucky to be surrounded by amazing fiber here in the UK. So this giveaway is perfect timing as I try to re-learn spinning! I’ve always made stuff and been drawn to “old-fashioned” ways of doing things. It brings me joy to be able to create something functional and beautiful with my two hands. Thank you for your podcast and your lovely wares, Marina ❤!
The garden has evolved beautifully from when you first moved house. Your work and your design eye is much in evidence, even in its sodden state. The new sweater design is quite elegant. I loved seeing you spin, and I’m going to follow your method with my two braids from you - divide them up into little nests and pick randomly. I know all the colors will blend together. It will be so relaxing to not micro-manage that! I’m not entering the give-away, but wanted to tell you that one of the things that draws me to spinning is my joy at getting back to the most elemental parts of whatever creating I’m doing. Creating the material I’m going to create with satisfies something deeply. I fear I’ll be washing fleece next. Meanwhile, I’m grateful to have your very local and close to the earth fiber that you dye so lovingly to play with. Thanks, for a lovely episode, Marina! harpingJanet
Thank you for an inspiring video, Marina. I love how your designs are inspired by landscapes. Recently I bought your Mendip fibre and have begun spindle spinning it so I was interested to see you working with it here. Am very interested in how different breeds spin up but I have a large enough stash to keep me busy... Love your garden, not messy for me, how funny that my NZ winter is doing similar things to the flowers!
Dear Marina, your cardigan is really wonderful and I am nosy, how your new design (with the valley and the roofs) will look at the end. For the question of spinning: I am fascinated by the idea, of making everything on my own: the yarn, the pattern and the project - and will therefore have an absolute unique cardigan or pullover. Thank you for your inspiring podcast. - Gabi
I loved this episode, Marina, it was the perfect way to spend an hour after a busy morning - knitting and watching you spin 😊 so much of what you said resonated with me - particularly your keenness to connect with the origins of fibre - we have generally become so disconnected from our materials. I love that you've built that into your designs, too. That's also why I'd love to learn to spin - I enjoy the traceability of choosing UK yarn, then dyeing it with plants I've grown, and spinning feels like the next step. I was recently given a spinning wheel which is very exciting, though I'm not sure where to start! I'd love to put my name in for the giveaway. Looking forward to catching up on your other videos! P.s. I feel I have very similar tastes in garden plants to you - I felt like I was hearing myself talk! I also have a sanguisorba and love to cut a few stems for drying X
Ahhh this is so lovely to hear! I’m honestly really looking forward to having a good chat at the Tetbury Wool Fair because I think we have so much to talk about!
I've really enjoyed getting yarny advent calendars where there's 4-5 skeins! One for each Sunday of advent, and sometimes a fifth for Christmas. Much more appealing to me than 24 different minis!
oh my 😍 natural fleece colours are just my fav! I live in western Canada, and we are not so fortunate as you guys in the UK who have such amazing selection of wool and breeds. It's my dream to have a sheep farm and open a small scale wool mill - I lived on a sheep farm in Australia for a year or 2, and ever since then I have been trying to figure out how to do it back home (land is very expensive here). I've been heavily researching breed wool characteristics to figure out the best options for the future, but having some to play with and feel for yourself is a totally different learning experience 🥰 Spinning is entirely new to me, but I've been dying to give it a try as my mum was heavily into weaving and textiles and I just love the feeling of wool in my hands. But giveaway or not, I shall be a new subscriber as I can't get enough wooly content these days 😊 all the best from Canada
I can't wait to find out more about your local south west fibre and designs. My family is from Devon and Cornwall so it will be lovely to find out more ... and a cardigan with pockets ... Perfect! I was very excited to see the box of fluff from Wingham wool too. I live near Butser Ancient Farm where they have manx loaghtan and I had a go using a drop spindle there. It was wonderful to have a go at an ancient craft outside an iron age round house using fibre from sheep that I could see.
I visited Butser years ago - it’s not far from a family member and it looks like they have loads of lovely events on there. I’m so enjoying working with super-local yarn and visiting such a lovely range of flocks!
Strangely enough today I went to my first spinning demonstration ever and was totally inspired .Having knitted for years my interest in being able to spin some wool and also learn how to dye using some of the plants from my garden. I would love to be entered in your competition.
How beautiful are the Wellana sleeves! Lovely informative podcast really interesting. I’m really interested in the sheep to yarn process the sustainability is so important to me. Spooky but I was looking at Wingham wools basic spinning kit last night just because I’d love to have a go but no idea where to start. In my head it looks a relaxing meditative process who knows how I’ll find it in reality 🫣so much information out there, I’m just going to be brave and leap in. Your beautiful fibre is the big temptation 😂. Apologies for the longest comment ever 😊
Love your videos, it’s great now you are back. I would love to be entered into the draw for the lovely gift.I love knitting and would like to learn to spin. My ambition would be to spin a fleece, dye it and then make a garment. That would be a great achievement. Look forward to your next video 😊
Such a lovely episode, Marina. Thank you. Your Welanna cardigan is so beautiful in your teal colourway - I am very tempted. I do have that issue of Making Stories, so all I need is to buy the yarn. I enjoyed seeing your garden and how it has developed. Mine is similar in many ways - slightly wild and with a bit of this and a bit of that, but I have less sun so I have lots of greenery with pots of (somewhat drought-tolerant) coleus for contrast colour here and there. My gardening philosophy is to cram a lot in so that weeds find it difficult to take hold. Rabbits seem to enjoy flowers too much! My spinning journey is somewhat slow. My expert friend won't let me use my wheel till I am proficient with a drop spindle that I am borrowing from her. I'd love my own, and to try some British breed fleece, so please enter me in your draw.
Your spinning friend sounds strict! I like your plant-cramming technique in the garden - now I’ve got working space out the back of the house that’s free of builders I’m hoping to do a lot more propagating to increase the plant stash. We haven’t suffered much with rabbits yet but know they’re around. I bet you’d look lovely in a Welanna 😁
wow, what a cool giveaway! my first sweater was marled and i had great fun doing subtle color changes myself. i've been looking into spinning because i've been told it's a way to get really nice, slow changing gradients.
Those sleeves on your cardigan are amazing, just love how the cables look! I'd love to go in to the draw to win the spinning pack. The idea of being able to take something natural and make something useful from it is what attracts me to knitting and spinning. Learning about the different wools is something I really enjoy. It has got to the point in NZ that it our wool is being discarded as some of it is worth nothing now. I would love to see that turn around and really admire the work you do to promote your local wools 😊
Enjoyed your podcast. I'm a knitter who has been dabbling into spinning a bit in an effort to understand more about yarn. I'm quite intrigued to learn more about different fibers to spin. I'd love to try out your giveaway sampler of fibers.
I absolutely LOVE your box of goodness for the giveaway ❤❤ I’m rather new to spinning, and what I’m looking for is the slow making process , in contrast to the fast making when buying yarn ready to knit with. I want to card from the fleece, dying the wool with natural materials, like birch bark, St Johns wood, different much rooms…. Spin the wool, or dye the spun yarn. Then knitting from my hand spun, hand dyed yarns. Like the women did it hundreds of years ago. I think this will be like soul slowing meditation and a great help to ground myself and heal from decades of too much stress. And seeing you work with your gorgeous wool and yarns is absolutely inspiring me, and makes me feel that this is the right way to go forward. So thank you for all good inspiration ❤
I'm so with you on the mini skeins - I'd be so stressed sitting with lots of small skeins and trying to find a project to use them! I'm not really into surprise yarn at all, but surprise spinning fibre is always interesting. It feels like less of a gamble - if I don't really like the colour, it can be modified in how I spin it, or combine with other fibre. So maybe an advent with 4 batches of fibre? :)
This comment isn't an entry for the giveaway but wanted to comment anyway to say thank you for the lovely bit of spinning in this video 😄 It's been a lovely episode. Your garden is looking gorgeous 😍
I'd love to be considered for the spinning stuff. I think, for me, i'd love to be able to say yes, not only did i knit this project, but I spun the yarn too!
I would love to have the opportunity to try your selection of fibres, such a lovely and generous box. I've only recently come across your channel and LOVE it!
You've broken my resolve to not pick up any more crafts, Marina - I am writing in to enter for the spinning bundle. :D I'd really love to be able to spin up your braids in particular and make some lumpy starter mittens for myself. Bigger picture, though, I am very fascinated by the different breeds of sheep and their characteristics. I would love to learn more and eventually be able to spin a yarn with all the sheepy, woolly characteristics that I love best. I can't imagine anything cosier than an oversized sweater or shawl made from my own spinning. Btw, I think the Welanna looks lovely on you in the slightly oversized fit.
Spinning stuff please! Hello, well I'm on the cusp of being a spinning convert. I love the idea of expanding my knitting craft into spinning my own yarn. I'm inspired by seeing what other people are spinning, and how to you can blend to create something unique. My dream project would be a hand spun jumper or giant shawl. I suspect that spinning would then lean me into have a go at weaving - where does it end! 😂
I really enjoy that you talk about all your designs & spinning! I love fiber and would love to take the plunge into spinning, but you are right about the cost. Thank you for offering this give away!! I would love to try my hand at it and see if I can move into spinning. Please enter me into the giveaway
Would love to enter the spinning drawing. I have knit for many years and for some time have wanted to learn to spin. I was able to find a spinning workshop within a reasonable driving distance this summer and am excited to spend more time spinning this fall. I retire in a couple weeks, so that will free up some time 😊. I so enjoy your videos and learning more about all of your crafts. I, too, like the idea of going farther and farther back into the process. Knitting led to spinning, and now I would like to prep the fiber and eventually learn to dye.
I would absolutely love to win the spinning “starter Kit.” I think one of the most interesting things is to know which sheep or flock grew your fiber. Unfortunately, here in Central California, I’m quite an anomaly. I do not think I could find any fleece within about 4 hours drive. I don’t even have an LYS. Yes, sad, but true. If I won your generous starter kit, I’d really enjoy learning the drop spindle and exploring various types of wool. I especially enjoyed watching you spin. The color blends are amazing. 😊
love the spring collection of mendip yarn you showed!!! that green [on the grey] is just soooo gorgeous ! i would love to be entered into the spinning giveaway - your work really inspires me to spin bc i love how you talk abt textile processes but i guess i also love the idea of being able to create useful, beautiful things that hopefully are not like also part of rly unethical or destructive actions toward people & the world ! i've always loved knitting but its really only been as i've learnt from watching youtube more about different fibres that i've felt like i want to really try and do some spinning!
I have recently tried spinning and am intrigued to know more. I find the process mesmerising. I’d love to eventually knit something up with yarn that I have created but for now, it’s just the process. Fingers crossed for the giveaway 🙏🏼 ps….lovely garden. I’d keep the pink hydrangea
I would love to learn more about the properties of different breeds fibres. I have only just started to spin. I use a Mayan spinner as I had stroke over a decade ago, I have tried drop spindle and Turkish spindle with no joy. I really want to be entered into the competition / giveaway. I am getting to grips with drafting a bit more now thankfully. Love your garden, it's so pretty. 😂
I am in love with knitting and I want to make a project with yarn I have made and knit something from it to make my project as much me made as possible. So I would love to try the fibers in your giveaway!
I've just started spinning. I'm super excited about making my own yarn, right now I'm using a drop spindle with corriadale yarn. I am curious about the british breeds and how they are different from the corriadale
i have tried spinning 3 times with wheels that had drives that where not my style. i bought my 3rd wheel and unlike me it is still unpacked. with the drop spindle i got the best results. i started knitting and spinning during covid. so only youtube could help me. now i took one class and i am on a waiting listspot for fall. i love british breeds and hate superwash! i am in the uk once a year and going to scotland in a month, knitting only this time. i have adopted 2 sheep this year, one in germany and one in austria. i helped shearing it. and the fleece will be here next week. so i am definately not giving up! i wouldnlove to enter the give away
Messy gardens unite! Well to be fair, mine is messier... Not here for the giveaway because I'm a spinner already. Once I didn't see the appeal of spinning, way too much work, too boring. But then a friend got small Ouessant and Soay sheep as living lawnmowers and would have thrown the fleeces away but for me having a go at them. Looking back, the quality was pretty poor, but processing and spinning the wool turned out to be a really nice thing to do. It feels as if such crafts are part of our DNA, and turning fluff into thread is just mesmerizing to watch.
I am a candidate for the giveaway. I am a spinner, but with a spinningwheel. I would very much like to learn how to spin with a spindle, and I would be very happy with to know how it feels to spin with those different british breads. congratulations on your beautifull cardigan in Making Stories.
Thank you for this lovely video, I would love to enter the giveaway for spinners! I tried to start spinning two years ago with a second hand spinning wheel, but unfortunately it broke last year when I was only just starting to get the hang of it. As a new spinning wheel is such a big investment, I would love to easy into it this time using a spindle. Eventually, I would love to make garments for myself and my friends/family using locally and sustainably sourced fibre, such as yours! Thank you!
Hi,I am from South Africa. I would live to win the spinning gift. I started drop spindle spinning,but we have a very few wools to spin. Merino is our main sheep for fleece. I wish we had the selection you have. I would live to later get a better spinning wheel. I got a weaving loom,that I would love to learn to use,but I would like to use natural wool fibres. Thank you for your lovely podcast. Love your knitting designs. Enjoy all your makes,your spinning is fabulous. ❤❤
I'd love to enter the giveaway:) I live in the Spanish Island of Mallorca, where since I moved I've seen lots of sheep, but no wool sold. I've been a knitter since before I moved here, and I really wanted to start working with my local wool. Unfortunately, most of the wool here gets discarded as selling it does not give any profit to the farmers. My dream is to learn how to spin so that I can make a full sweater from Mallorcan wool, and give back some purpose to this amazing and often misunderstood fiber!
I always want to learn new parts of crafts, I want to learn spinning to better understand my yarn and because I think it would be fun. I would like to enter.
Thank you for the inspiration on wool craft. I knit and would like to learn to spinn, so the givaway is welcome. Hope to restore and use my great great grandmothers spinningen wheel, after learning. Also loved the garden tour!
I’d love to win the spinning kit, I’ve been thinking of learning to spin for quite a while now but I’ve yet to make the jump. I love the idea of creating a garment totally with my own hands from start to finish, that just really appeals to me. My dream is to be able to spin a whole sweater quantity. One of these day when I can I’d love to get a wheel, I have a little dream of me sitting in the garden spinning away on a lovely sunny day.
Hi, like many I have knitted since childhood, learning from my Grandmother. How things have changed! I have moved from big commercial suppliers to more local to me, in Devon, with a good ethical service. Learning to spin would be the next step of my learning. Love your designs and look forward to the next episode.
Hallo and congratulations Caroline! As you’ll see in my latest video, you’ve won the giveaway! Please send me a message or email and we’ll work out postage details ❤️
Thank you!@@MarinaSkua
My great-grandmother spinned and weaved blankets for her entire village, I grew up listening stories regarding her and her work, unfortunately all the tools have been lost after she left this world, but the imaginary stayed and as long as I remember that I want to learn how to spin and weave :) never got the courage to do it, but maybe this is the time! :) thank you & all the best!
I really hope you are able to have a go with some spinning. I started last year and haven't looked back. It really is so calming and meditative (at least, once you get past the initial frustration when learning 😂). All the best!
Hi Marina thank you for keeping me company today while I had my morning coffee, I enjoyed watching you spinning, I spin for my time out it helps me unwind. In Australia we mostly have merino wool your box of different fleece sample pack looked very interesting. I have enjoyed looking at your garden I have possumns and cows that eat everything they can find.
The meditative element of spinning is what fascinates me. I’ve spun on a wheel but drop spindle is something I’m interested in too. Your videos inspire my love for the fibre arts and I thank you for that ❤
What a lovely garden! Absolutely beautiful knits. Happy knitting 💚🧶💚
Thank you! I must remember to grab a few moments in the garden for the next episode before we lose all the leaves!
I have recently learned to spin a few weeks ago and absolutely fell in love with the process but also with the outcome. There is something very special about hand spun yarn as I feel it carries a little bit of soul of the person spinning it. I would love an opportunity to experiment with different fibres as well trying out a drop spindle! Lovely video Marina 🩷🩷
Love the little headband! ❤ Obsessed with how you spin, must try this. I have bought Solace recently but I’m savoring it until I get a little better at backward drawing. ❤
The cable on your cardigan reminds me so much of "fougasse" bread. It's really beautiful
Oh my goodness what a great comparison!
Hi, like many I have knitted since childhood, learning from my Grandmother. How things have changed! I have moved from big commercial suppliers to more local to me, in Devon, with a good ethical service. Learning to spin would be the next step of my learning. Love your designs and look forward to the next episode.
So lovely to see all of the lovely work you're doing both with the woollies and with the flowies!
That is such a generous gift from you/Whingham. I have always had exactly one thing on my 'bucket list', and it is: making a sweater where I do the entire process myself - shearing the sheep (or maybe just being present for the shearing, I don't want to stress out cuddly sheepies), processing and spinning the wool, dyeing (or not), designing, and then knitting the sweater. I think I may have been inspired to want to do this from a children's book of my childhood called Pelle's New Suit from Elsa Beskow, where a little boy has a little lamb that needs sheering, and he then visits all of his family members and neighbours with the wool to do part of the process whilst he does a chore for them, and it's just such a lovely book.
(Also, this is me wanting to enter into the spinning stuff.)
Pelle’s New Suit looks like a lovely book! Going to try and find a used copy to read to the small child.
It was love at first sight with your cardigan, and halfway through the episode I purchased the pattern and yarn (and a braid of fiber). The buttons! Lilliput Wight was nearby to your stall at Wonderwool - such pretty items. Spinning…I took a weekend workshop just after having my first baby 20 years ago, and the spinning wheel sat silent, enduring several house moves. We moved from the US to the UK 2 years ago and my wheel and carders are in the process of being shipped now so I can try again, since my children are older and I have more time. I’ve also just scoured a fleece from our neighbor’s flock. We are lucky to be surrounded by amazing fiber here in the UK. So this giveaway is perfect timing as I try to re-learn spinning! I’ve always made stuff and been drawn to “old-fashioned” ways of doing things. It brings me joy to be able to create something functional and beautiful with my two hands. Thank you for your podcast and your lovely wares, Marina ❤!
Ahh thank you so much for your order Jennifer - I hope I’ll get to see how your cardigan and spinning come along!
The garden has evolved beautifully from when you first moved house. Your work and your design eye is much in evidence, even in its sodden state. The new sweater design is quite elegant. I loved seeing you spin, and I’m going to follow your method with my two braids from you - divide them up into little nests and pick randomly. I know all the colors will blend together. It will be so relaxing to not micro-manage that!
I’m not entering the give-away, but wanted to tell you that one of the things that draws me to spinning is my joy at getting back to the most elemental parts of whatever creating I’m doing. Creating the material I’m going to create with satisfies something deeply. I fear I’ll be washing fleece next. Meanwhile, I’m grateful to have your very local and close to the earth fiber that you dye so lovingly to play with. Thanks, for a lovely episode, Marina! harpingJanet
Thanks Janet, very glad you enjoyed a look at the garden, and I hope I’ll get a chance to see how your fibre spins up!
Thank you for an inspiring video, Marina. I love how your designs are inspired by landscapes. Recently I bought your Mendip fibre and have begun spindle spinning it so I was interested to see you working with it here. Am very interested in how different breeds spin up but I have a large enough stash to keep me busy... Love your garden, not messy for me, how funny that my NZ winter is doing similar things to the flowers!
Dear Marina, your cardigan is really wonderful and I am nosy, how your new design (with the valley and the roofs) will look at the end.
For the question of spinning: I am fascinated by the idea, of making everything on my own: the yarn, the pattern and the project - and will therefore have an absolute unique cardigan or pullover.
Thank you for your inspiring podcast. - Gabi
I loved this episode, Marina, it was the perfect way to spend an hour after a busy morning - knitting and watching you spin 😊 so much of what you said resonated with me - particularly your keenness to connect with the origins of fibre - we have generally become so disconnected from our materials. I love that you've built that into your designs, too. That's also why I'd love to learn to spin - I enjoy the traceability of choosing UK yarn, then dyeing it with plants I've grown, and spinning feels like the next step. I was recently given a spinning wheel which is very exciting, though I'm not sure where to start! I'd love to put my name in for the giveaway. Looking forward to catching up on your other videos! P.s. I feel I have very similar tastes in garden plants to you - I felt like I was hearing myself talk! I also have a sanguisorba and love to cut a few stems for drying X
Ahhh this is so lovely to hear! I’m honestly really looking forward to having a good chat at the Tetbury Wool Fair because I think we have so much to talk about!
I've really enjoyed getting yarny advent calendars where there's 4-5 skeins! One for each Sunday of advent, and sometimes a fifth for Christmas. Much more appealing to me than 24 different minis!
Excellent to know, thanks love! Will see what happens 😉
oh my 😍 natural fleece colours are just my fav! I live in western Canada, and we are not so fortunate as you guys in the UK who have such amazing selection of wool and breeds. It's my dream to have a sheep farm and open a small scale wool mill - I lived on a sheep farm in Australia for a year or 2, and ever since then I have been trying to figure out how to do it back home (land is very expensive here). I've been heavily researching breed wool characteristics to figure out the best options for the future, but having some to play with and feel for yourself is a totally different learning experience 🥰 Spinning is entirely new to me, but I've been dying to give it a try as my mum was heavily into weaving and textiles and I just love the feeling of wool in my hands. But giveaway or not, I shall be a new subscriber as I can't get enough wooly content these days 😊 all the best from Canada
I can't wait to find out more about your local south west fibre and designs. My family is from Devon and Cornwall so it will be lovely to find out more ... and a cardigan with pockets ... Perfect! I was very excited to see the box of fluff from Wingham wool too. I live near Butser Ancient Farm where they have manx loaghtan and I had a go using a drop spindle there. It was wonderful to have a go at an ancient craft outside an iron age round house using fibre from sheep that I could see.
I visited Butser years ago - it’s not far from a family member and it looks like they have loads of lovely events on there.
I’m so enjoying working with super-local yarn and visiting such a lovely range of flocks!
Strangely enough today I went to my first spinning demonstration ever and was totally inspired .Having knitted for years my interest in being able to spin some wool and also learn how to dye using some of the plants from my garden. I would love to be entered in your competition.
How beautiful are the Wellana sleeves! Lovely informative podcast really interesting. I’m really interested in the sheep to yarn process the sustainability is so important to me. Spooky but I was looking at Wingham wools basic spinning kit last night just because I’d love to have a go but no idea where to start. In my head it looks a relaxing meditative process who knows how I’ll find it in reality 🫣so much information out there, I’m just going to be brave and leap in. Your beautiful fibre is the big temptation 😂. Apologies for the longest comment ever 😊
Love your videos, it’s great now you are back. I would love to be entered into the draw for the lovely gift.I love knitting and would like to learn to spin. My ambition would be to spin a fleece, dye it and then make a garment. That would be a great achievement. Look forward to your next video 😊
Such a lovely episode, Marina. Thank you. Your Welanna cardigan is so beautiful in your teal colourway - I am very tempted. I do have that issue of Making Stories, so all I need is to buy the yarn. I enjoyed seeing your garden and how it has developed. Mine is similar in many ways - slightly wild and with a bit of this and a bit of that, but I have less sun so I have lots of greenery with pots of (somewhat drought-tolerant) coleus for contrast colour here and there. My gardening philosophy is to cram a lot in so that weeds find it difficult to take hold. Rabbits seem to enjoy flowers too much! My spinning journey is somewhat slow. My expert friend won't let me use my wheel till I am proficient with a drop spindle that I am borrowing from her. I'd love my own, and to try some British breed fleece, so please enter me in your draw.
Your spinning friend sounds strict! I like your plant-cramming technique in the garden - now I’ve got working space out the back of the house that’s free of builders I’m hoping to do a lot more propagating to increase the plant stash. We haven’t suffered much with rabbits yet but know they’re around.
I bet you’d look lovely in a Welanna 😁
wow, what a cool giveaway! my first sweater was marled and i had great fun doing subtle color changes myself. i've been looking into spinning because i've been told it's a way to get really nice, slow changing gradients.
Those sleeves on your cardigan are amazing, just love how the cables look! I'd love to go in to the draw to win the spinning pack. The idea of being able to take something natural and make something useful from it is what attracts me to knitting and spinning. Learning about the different wools is something I really enjoy. It has got to the point in NZ that it our wool is being discarded as some of it is worth nothing now. I would love to see that turn around and really admire the work you do to promote your local wools 😊
Enjoyed your podcast. I'm a knitter who has been dabbling into spinning a bit in an effort to understand more about yarn. I'm quite intrigued to learn more about different fibers to spin. I'd love to try out your giveaway sampler of fibers.
The appeal in spinning for me is traceability and being able to directly support my local sheep farmers! Would love to be a give away recipient
I absolutely LOVE your box of goodness for the giveaway ❤❤
I’m rather new to spinning, and what I’m looking for is the slow making process , in contrast to the fast making when buying yarn ready to knit with.
I want to card from the fleece, dying the wool with natural materials, like birch bark, St Johns wood, different much rooms…. Spin the wool, or dye the spun yarn.
Then knitting from my hand spun, hand dyed yarns. Like the women did it hundreds of years ago. I think this will be like soul slowing meditation and a great help to ground myself and heal from decades of too much stress.
And seeing you work with your gorgeous wool and yarns is absolutely inspiring me, and makes me feel that this is the right way to go forward.
So thank you for all good inspiration ❤
I'm so with you on the mini skeins - I'd be so stressed sitting with lots of small skeins and trying to find a project to use them! I'm not really into surprise yarn at all, but surprise spinning fibre is always interesting. It feels like less of a gamble - if I don't really like the colour, it can be modified in how I spin it, or combine with other fibre. So maybe an advent with 4 batches of fibre? :)
This comment isn't an entry for the giveaway but wanted to comment anyway to say thank you for the lovely bit of spinning in this video 😄 It's been a lovely episode. Your garden is looking gorgeous 😍
I'd love to be considered for the spinning stuff. I think, for me, i'd love to be able to say yes, not only did i knit this project, but I spun the yarn too!
I would love to have the opportunity to try your selection of fibres, such a lovely and generous box. I've only recently come across your channel and LOVE it!
You've broken my resolve to not pick up any more crafts, Marina - I am writing in to enter for the spinning bundle. :D I'd really love to be able to spin up your braids in particular and make some lumpy starter mittens for myself. Bigger picture, though, I am very fascinated by the different breeds of sheep and their characteristics. I would love to learn more and eventually be able to spin a yarn with all the sheepy, woolly characteristics that I love best. I can't imagine anything cosier than an oversized sweater or shawl made from my own spinning. Btw, I think the Welanna looks lovely on you in the slightly oversized fit.
I’m really looking forward to seeing how you progress with spinning; I suspect you’re going to get good fast!
Love your sweater!
Spinning stuff please! Hello, well I'm on the cusp of being a spinning convert. I love the idea of expanding my knitting craft into spinning my own yarn. I'm inspired by seeing what other people are spinning, and how to you can blend to create something unique. My dream project would be a hand spun jumper or giant shawl. I suspect that spinning would then lean me into have a go at weaving - where does it end! 😂
The craft avalanche is real!
I really enjoy that you talk about all your designs & spinning! I love fiber and would love to take the plunge into spinning, but you are right about the cost. Thank you for offering this give away!! I would love to try my hand at it and see if I can move into spinning. Please enter me into the giveaway
Would love to enter the spinning drawing. I have knit for many years and for some time have wanted to learn to spin. I was able to find a spinning workshop within a reasonable driving distance this summer and am excited to spend more time spinning this fall. I retire in a couple weeks, so that will free up some time 😊. I so enjoy your videos and learning more about all of your crafts. I, too, like the idea of going farther and farther back into the process. Knitting led to spinning, and now I would like to prep the fiber and eventually learn to dye.
I would absolutely love to win the spinning “starter Kit.” I think one of the most interesting things is to know which sheep or flock grew your fiber. Unfortunately, here in Central California, I’m quite an anomaly. I do not think I could find any fleece within about 4 hours drive. I don’t even have an LYS. Yes, sad, but true. If I won your generous starter kit, I’d really enjoy learning the drop spindle and exploring various types of wool. I especially enjoyed watching you spin. The color blends are amazing. 😊
love the spring collection of mendip yarn you showed!!! that green [on the grey] is just soooo gorgeous ! i would love to be entered into the spinning giveaway - your work really inspires me to spin bc i love how you talk abt textile processes but i guess i also love the idea of being able to create useful, beautiful things that hopefully are not like also part of rly unethical or destructive actions toward people & the world ! i've always loved knitting but its really only been as i've learnt from watching youtube more about different fibres that i've felt like i want to really try and do some spinning!
I have recently tried spinning and am intrigued to know more. I find the process mesmerising. I’d love to eventually knit something up with yarn that I have created but for now, it’s just the process. Fingers crossed for the giveaway 🙏🏼 ps….lovely garden. I’d keep the pink hydrangea
Beautiful color on you!
I would love to learn more about the properties of different breeds fibres. I have only just started to spin. I use a Mayan spinner as I had stroke over a decade ago, I have tried drop spindle and Turkish spindle with no joy. I really want to be entered into the competition / giveaway. I am getting to grips with drafting a bit more now thankfully. Love your garden, it's so pretty. 😂
Would be very interested in a 4 x 50g skein advent …. How exciting x ❤
Very good to hear, thank you! Stay tuned 😉
I am in love with knitting and I want to make a project with yarn I have made and knit something from it to make my project as much me made as possible.
So I would love to try the fibers in your giveaway!
I've just started spinning. I'm super excited about making my own yarn, right now I'm using a drop spindle with corriadale yarn. I am curious about the british breeds and how they are different from the corriadale
i have tried spinning 3 times with wheels that had drives that where not my style. i bought my 3rd wheel and unlike me it is still unpacked. with the drop spindle i got the best results. i started knitting and spinning during covid. so only youtube could help me. now i took one class and i am on a waiting listspot for fall. i love british breeds and hate superwash! i am in the uk once a year and going to scotland in a month, knitting only this time. i have adopted 2 sheep this year, one in germany and one in austria. i helped shearing it. and the fleece will be here next week. so i am definately not giving up! i wouldnlove to enter the give away
Messy gardens unite! Well to be fair, mine is messier...
Not here for the giveaway because I'm a spinner already. Once I didn't see the appeal of spinning, way too much work, too boring. But then a friend got small Ouessant and Soay sheep as living lawnmowers and would have thrown the fleeces away but for me having a go at them. Looking back, the quality was pretty poor, but processing and spinning the wool turned out to be a really nice thing to do. It feels as if such crafts are part of our DNA, and turning fluff into thread is just mesmerizing to watch.
I am a candidate for the giveaway. I am a spinner, but with a spinningwheel. I would very much like to learn how to spin with a spindle, and I would be very happy with to know how it feels to spin with those different british breads. congratulations on your beautifull cardigan in Making Stories.
Thank you for this lovely video, I would love to enter the giveaway for spinners! I tried to start spinning two years ago with a second hand spinning wheel, but unfortunately it broke last year when I was only just starting to get the hang of it. As a new spinning wheel is such a big investment, I would love to easy into it this time using a spindle. Eventually, I would love to make garments for myself and my friends/family using locally and sustainably sourced fibre, such as yours! Thank you!
Hi,I am from South Africa. I would live to win the spinning gift. I started drop spindle spinning,but we have a very few wools to spin. Merino is our main sheep for fleece. I wish we had the selection you have. I would live to later get a better spinning wheel. I got a weaving loom,that I would love to learn to use,but I would like to use natural wool fibres. Thank you for your lovely podcast. Love your knitting designs. Enjoy all your makes,your spinning is fabulous. ❤❤
I'd love to enter the giveaway:) I live in the Spanish Island of Mallorca, where since I moved I've seen lots of sheep, but no wool sold. I've been a knitter since before I moved here, and I really wanted to start working with my local wool. Unfortunately, most of the wool here gets discarded as selling it does not give any profit to the farmers. My dream is to learn how to spin so that I can make a full sweater from Mallorcan wool, and give back some purpose to this amazing and often misunderstood fiber!
I always want to learn new parts of crafts, I want to learn spinning to better understand my yarn and because I think it would be fun. I would like to enter.
Thank you for the inspiration on wool craft. I knit and would like to learn to spinn, so the givaway is welcome. Hope to restore and use my great great grandmothers spinningen wheel, after learning. Also loved the garden tour!
I’d love to win the spinning kit, I’ve been thinking of learning to spin for quite a while now but I’ve yet to make the jump. I love the idea of creating a garment totally with my own hands from start to finish, that just really appeals to me. My dream is to be able to spin a whole sweater quantity. One of these day when I can I’d love to get a wheel, I have a little dream of me sitting in the garden spinning away on a lovely sunny day.
I see lots of beautiful handspun yarn at Instagram and UA-cam🧶 That is something I would like to learn and make my self💖