Loved today’s sit and spin topic! I’m also not an art-yarn person. I also like creating consistent yarns I can knit with, and I’m also not a fan of knitting with art yarn. I’ve had people ask me why I wouldn’t want to make art yarn, so I’m glad to know someone else who agrees with me! 😂 Also, “Everyone sucks in the beginning,” couldn’t be more true! 🥴
Today I particularly appreciate your saying that your hands and your heart will remember how to spin despite taking a break from spinning. I finally saw myself making spinning progress, and then had my thumb surgery in November. It’s probably at least another 8 weeks of no spinning. Your reminder gives me hope that I'll not be starting over from the beginning, that what I learned still lives inside me and I can trust my hands to remember how to do this. Some of those things you wished you had learned before starting to spin, I got to learn from you before I started. Like sampling different breeds and not just buy pretty colors. I appreciate all the wisdom you've shared, not only tonight but also in those first videos about your spinning journey. I avoided several swampy paths thanks all the hard won wisdom you shared. harpingJanet
Yes! Exactly this, Janet. Sometimes we need to take breaks for a myriad of reasons and its really just a joy to know that when we find out way back, things will be just fine. We may be a bit rusty but we’ll muddle our way on through.
The dragon is oh so real! I dont spin (yet!) and learned of world of wool yarns after the pandemic and have amassed quite the hoarde. So much yarn to move thru, thankfully its in weights that I love but I do wish I slowed down my purchases to better understand why I was buying these like hotcakes. I am reaching this point and I have slowed down so much and am proud of that. I appreciate the wisdom you give in these videos 😊
I enjoy all your podcasts and vlogs, you just have such a sensible approach. Today’s spinning chat is one I will be encouraging other spinners to watch. A couple episode’s earlier I took away many new feelings (good feelings) about clothing styles. It was such great encouragement. Thank you for everything you’ve been sharing! Terry, Knutsford, BC 🇨🇦
I’m so glad you’ve been enjoying it! It’s been a real joy to make and share and I’m just happy there’s actually useful information mixed in with all of the babble.
Tazhi, this was such a great episode, and so full of wisdom! I’m two plus years into my spinning, and I totally went in for the ALL the hand painted braids. Now I’m patiently working on spinning down the stash, planning projects as I go. The struggle of learning something new is real, especially as an adult learner. I started playing a new to me instrument a year ago, and I was ready to quit before my first lesson. I could apply everything you were saying, about sucking at the beginning of learning to spin, to my new musical journey. Just hearing your “ten things I wish I knew” about your journey had me nodding along in affirmation. “Just keep spinning, just keep spinning, that’s what we do, we spin…”
I’m going to sing that to myself all the time so thanks for that! Also happy foray into making music - it’s a wonder to me all the things our bodies can do if we give them time and space to learn and play and explore.
I will not let myself pick up spinning because it would get me in so much trouble! 😂 So, I do the next best thing and watch spinning vlogs. It’s so therapeutic and beautiful 🤩!! Great advice! I will have to use that. The ugly monster especially 🫣! My stash of yarn and sewing 🪡 🧵 and stamps, paint 🎨 crafts are topped off. 😂
The dragon is real!!! I’ve been spinning a little over a year now. The spindles are a deep deep rabbit hole 😳 and all the fiber! I just detstashed lots of single skeins of yarn that are no longer bringing joy. I was subscribed to the Hello Yarn fiber club but stopped as I can’t keep up with all the things!!! I love your videos. Really appreciated your being real and vulnerable on your down day. We all have them.
It’s always something you go into a new hobby technically knowing: that you’re going to suck, and it’s not going to be perfect. But we all seem to forget it as soon as we start. 😅 I’m so guilty of that. “What do you mean I’m not instantly perfect at this brand new skill I have never tried before??? Preposterous!!” Also thank you for saying you don’t need to spin every day. I’ve only just started my spinning journey, and I have felt like I’m never going to make any progress if I don’t practice every day. I’m a nurse who, until next month (starting a new job as an OR nurse!) have been doing twelve hour shifts, and most times after a shift, the only thing I want to do is go to bed. So that’s honestly relief to know that it’s not going to hinder my success.
I felt that DEEPLY - “oh you mean I’m not immediately a master maker? How dare, time to throw the wheel out the window!” Also, welcome to the OR! I want to smash my head into the wall some days but I wouldn’t trade my career for the world.
Finally catching up to these. Just to show how real "everyone learns differently" is, personally I picked up the basics of spinning almost instantly, but *knitting* still completely baffles me even after 30 years of trying and several very long projects. If I make a mistake or drop a stitch, I still have to have someone else fix it because I can't. (Also, the urge to hoard tools is real haha)
Listening to you talk about breeds was helpful. I'm still a new spinner, but my projects I had a harder time with happen to be spun with rambouillet. I still have more skills to practice, but I'm realizing there were some breeds I enjoyed spinning with over others.
Slowly catching up on all these wonderful videos! As a very new spinner (who sucks) I really appreciated this! I also can heavily relate to buying craft materials when I should just go to sleep. I over-researched and overbought yarn over the pandemic, and since I've been working on unlearning some of those habits. I have a huge stash of nonsuperwash colourwork yarn, which I do really like, but as I really love to knit gifts I've realized I should have invested more in acrylic and superwash that are more gift-friendly. Which is definitely counterintuitive to a lot of conventional recommendations, but would have been less wasteful for me in the long run, because only some people are up for a wool gift.
In another wooly group I’m in people often say that when trying something new you have to be brave before you can be good. Something I try when I seem to shop too much is to fill the cart, get the dopamine hit from adding all the joys into the cart… then walk away for 24hrs. I end up either forgetting about it or realizing I don’t need it right now, or I still love it and buy it. But the cool down helps and I still had fun shopping and adding to cart even if I don’t buy.
Don’t shop, go to sleep! Ya cut me deep with that one! 😂😅 I’m so enjoying Vlogmas Tazhi! Thanks for letting us a little further into your brain and into your life. ❤
I adore southdown! It is definately a different experience. You might want to try some long draw on a support spindle, which is my favorite way to spin it.
This prep isn’t designed for any sort of long draw spinning - I’ve tried. It might just be a bad representation of the breed, I’ve spun carded down breeds with no problem in the past.
Interesting to hear your reflections on your spinning journey Tazhi. Even though I don't spin, I can relate to the "buying all the tools" and "hoarding all the things". During lock-down my yarn buying went through the roof but I also realised I picked up my knitting when something emotional was going on for me that I couldn't verbalise. So now I try and shop from my stash but also don't get mad with myself- it was my way of coping and I will use it all up eventually ☺
Ive watched every single of your vlogmas last year when I was trying to decide if I want to spin or not. So 2 wheels and a bunch of wool later im here. Thank you Tazhi! Spinfluenced!
Thank you so much for this video, Tazhi! Probably my favorite one yet of this vlogmas season. Because of the content you put on UA-cam, I took a spinning class this past summer and I have a wheel on the way as a combined birthday/Christmas present to myself. While my dragon is always SO TEMPTED by the hand-dyed braids, I just purchased a plethora of small portions of different breeds to practice on and figure out what I like. Ya gurl already has an expensive yarn problem... can't be buying sweater quantities of hand-dyed fiber before I'm even fully comfortable spinning! While I'm not putting pressure on myself to be good immediately, I'd love to become a technical spinner eventually, able to make yarn deliberately for the project I want... so thank you for the encouragement to keep notes. Incidentally, I fell into sheep ownership by accident, and have five Shetland girls whose fleece I taught myself how to shear this past year and plan on fully processing myself once I get over being intimidated by the process. I'm sorry I missed running into you at Maryland Sheep & Wool this past spring because I would love to tell you in person how much I enjoy your channel and how pivotal it has been for my fleece and fiber journey thus far. Sending you warmth and brightness this holiday season!
You are living the PEAK wool chaos life and I am vicariously enjoying the Shetland ladies through you. Welcome to the spinsterhood and I hope you have the most fun getting to know your new wheel and all of the yarn that will come off of it.
Thank you for these sit-and-spins, especially talking about spinning - but I loved the one about holiday traditions too as I also had experience with fruitcake. I've been spinning for about 15 yrs, and I started with support spindling, but I found that my sense of what spinning is didn't match the vocabulary of everyone else's practice. I really appreciate your granular view which gets closer to what we have in our hands and what we do.
Yes, exactly this! What we have in our hands and what we do with it is how I want to approach this craft. All the technicalities are just fluff and supporting material.
I love the sit and spin videos! I don’t spin (I have a couple drop spindles but I’m terrible at it and haven’t devoted the time to getting better), but just watching your spinning along with your chat about whatever topic you’ve picked is soothing, deep, and fun (depending on the topic)!
Omg with the fiber club. I did join it cos it was easy. I was so guilty quitting them. But I had too. I was drowning with fiber I didn’t like the colors. Also yes, hello yarn is the only one I have now. I love the breed selection too.
I love when you share your thought process, it helps me understand your experience with the wool that you are spinning. The top you are spinning seems so lifeless. I wonder if it would have helped to steam it before spinning? This has helped me with some commercial "roving" that I bought for my first spins. Another way that I found to open up wool that is somewhat felted is to sink the teeth of a metal comb through the fibers several times along the length of the sliver. I am still very much a beginner and don't yet have a lot of fiber tools, so I use what I have on hand, in thus case it was a groomer's comb 😊
I think this is just a bad prep of this breed - I’ve spun the down breeds in carded form and I liked it so much more than this top situation. It wasn’t felted or matted, it was just a mix of different staples so it was hard to find a drafting rhythm and because it was combed, it was hard to spin woolen. I do have a plan for the next time I tackle it in this box though.
I’m slowly catching back up on vlogmases. Life got busy but I’ve got a 12hr sitting shift so I can let the videos play in the bg. At this point I’m convinced we’re the same person lol. I also thought I wanted to do art yarn and idk where I got that from. 😂 I hate working with art yarn so idk why I thought I wanted to make so much of it. I also thought I had to be good at spinning bc I’ve had so much experience with other crafts but like duh this is different. I also bought so much merino and I just do not like it. I like longer staple lengths. I have never joined a fiber club bc I feel the same way about quitting 😂. I don’t want to hurt people’s feelings. Omg. You’re calling me out on the sleep shopping. 😔
Thank you so much for another wonderful vlog! Taming that dragon is so hard and so necessary. It's been almost a year since my last yarn festival and I am going to try another year. I really need to make a dent in my pile 😅. Everything you said was so true, thanks. I also have to work on the fear of missing out thing. 😊
Loved this! Thank you for your spinning tips. So far I've been spinning for the vibes but I do want to learn to make yarn that I actually want to knit and crochet with. I spun some corriedale on my spindle today. My first time spinning since the spring. It was really enjoyable, even if my finished yarn is not great. Thank you for your warmth and encouragement and enthusiasm for crafts! It brightens my day every time I watch one of your videos. ❤
Spinning for the vibes is an excellent place to start - once you get more comfortable with the basics, it’ll become easier to start being more intentional about your yarns.
Hey new friend. I found you recently because so many people mentioned you in their podcasts. And i totally see why. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I learned spinning spontaneously in august. I was traveling in Ladakh (india) and found a spindle on my search for cashmere wool. So i bought it and tried to find someone to teach me. It was a supported spindle called phang (i obviously had no idea at that point). So i went to a nomad village in the Himalayas and a nice older lady showed me and gave me her old spinning bowl. Obviously I had to buy a kg of fresh shoren cashmere and 2kg of yak wool from the same village. Cause it's more fun to start unprepared and learn on a whim. Amazing experience. And let me tell it is sooo much easier to learn with nicely prepared wool. But I love the experimenting. I got some different fibers and spindles on occasion like some Indian silk from south India and a friend just got me some baby camel wool from the desert in Rajasthan. So i have a fun beginner stash for experimenting. And through people like you i learn along the way. So thank you for that. Have a lovely day
I wonder if this connection is true for me as well - I pay so much attention to my cycle in connection with the moon but it never occurred to me to investigate my sleep habits as well.
I regret giving away my clemes and clemes modern wheel. Also don't buy a wheel cause it's pretty. I'm looking at you Kromski Mazurka. Best thing that ever happened for my fiber addiction is joining my local fiber guild. I learned so much from the people in the guild.
I’ve had a wheel I was given years ago I almost never use cuz I’m so bad at it lol I also knit left to right so I get up in my head about which hand, which direction, etc and just end up over twisting “all the things” …I want to love spinning more than I do at this moment cuz I’d kill to knit all the things w hand spun! Love your content!
I just started spinning this month and let me tell you about how much I suck! But that’s part of why I love learning something new, the experience of seeing yourself slowly improve is part of the fun!
Great vid and been loving the vlogmas! ❤ On the point of trying out different breeds- try different dyers too! Bases are so different, which is surprising! I too am a targhee fan but I have found that Woolfiend’s targhee blooms and gets SO SQUISHY compared to other dyer’s targhee and so now I definitely go out of my way to use hers cuz the floof is to die for! Also I thought I hated BFL for a hot minute until I realized it was just the base that a dyer carried that I hated lol.
I’m wondering if that Southdown is super washed.🤔All the fibre I dizzied off my blending board was Southdown and I’ve spun it from top, and it did not look or behave like that. Thanks for taking the time to share these videos because they are work.❤🫶🏾
I don’t know what was up with this but I have some strategies for tackling it on the next day - I think I’m going to spin it over the fold and try it that way.
Thank you Tazhi, I'm a new spinner and this was such a nice video to start my morning! I feel much better about my spinning journey knowing that my struggles are normal. I've been watching your vlogmas and it's great, I just NEED to know what the background music is called, because it's living in my head rent free and is soo pleasant. 🤩
Here’s a link to it on UA-cam - I find it really soothing to listen to as well which is why I haven’t changed it yet - I tried something else but I keep coming back to this. m.ua-cam.com/video/AePAkSwq00k/v-deo.html
I think the content in them is great, I just know so much more about production quality and what I want the videos to look like - I still am and I should practice being kinder to myself - and I’m a bit hard on myself about how the videos look and the editing. But thank you so much for saying so, I think I needed to hear this so I can stop being so mean to myself about the videos I made as I was learning!
Most of my friends on Instagram are my favorite spinners, but to name a few Melody at pacificcoasterfibres, Hikari Handmade, and Vivian at whatvivdoes.
One day. One day I will dive into the world of spinning and I will drown. I know myself. I will try to learn how to spin on some antique spinning wheel and I will be way to afraid to mess upp pretty wool so I will get the cheapest stuff I can find and I will beat myself up because it's not turning out the way I want.. and somehow I will still get absolutely obsessed and drive my poor boyfriend up the walls
Speaking of exuberance, I'd much rather spend time with a stream of consciousness chaotic narrative over a carefully enunciated almost scripted content. It's how I approach the world and my love of fiber arts
Thank you for saying so - sometimes I get stuck in my head and the words don’t come out as nicely as I wish but I do my best thinking this way so the chaotic exuberance is here to stay!
Maybe santa will bring you a lws for Christmas…..I just got one for my lendrum…really luv it….I have a woolie winder for my Fantasia that I lurve also but I like being able to to use the bobbins that I have already…..highly recommend…..can’t wait to meet you at vkl….thanks for sharing…..✂️🎄
I’m actually not interested in any of the autowinders for my wheel - I like being able to control how my bobbins wind on so I don’t plan on buying one for any of my wheels or spinners.
Loved today’s sit and spin topic! I’m also not an art-yarn person. I also like creating consistent yarns I can knit with, and I’m also not a fan of knitting with art yarn. I’ve had people ask me why I wouldn’t want to make art yarn, so I’m glad to know someone else who agrees with me! 😂
Also, “Everyone sucks in the beginning,” couldn’t be more true! 🥴
Today I particularly appreciate your saying that your hands and your heart will remember how to spin despite taking a break from spinning. I finally saw myself making spinning progress, and then had my thumb surgery in November. It’s probably at least another 8 weeks of no spinning. Your reminder gives me hope that I'll not be starting over from the beginning, that what I learned still lives inside me and I can trust my hands to remember how to do this.
Some of those things you wished you had learned before starting to spin, I got to learn from you before I started. Like sampling different breeds and not just buy pretty colors. I appreciate all the wisdom you've shared, not only tonight but also in those first videos about your spinning journey. I avoided several swampy paths thanks all the hard won wisdom you shared. harpingJanet
Yes! Exactly this, Janet. Sometimes we need to take breaks for a myriad of reasons and its really just a joy to know that when we find out way back, things will be just fine. We may be a bit rusty but we’ll muddle our way on through.
The dragon is oh so real! I dont spin (yet!) and learned of world of wool yarns after the pandemic and have amassed quite the hoarde. So much yarn to move thru, thankfully its in weights that I love but I do wish I slowed down my purchases to better understand why I was buying these like hotcakes. I am reaching this point and I have slowed down so much and am proud of that. I appreciate the wisdom you give in these videos 😊
listen. thanks for letting this fangirl know that commenting every day isn't obnoxious:)
happy day whatever it is🎉
I enjoy all your podcasts and vlogs, you just have such a sensible approach. Today’s spinning chat is one I will be encouraging other spinners to watch. A couple episode’s earlier I took away many new feelings (good feelings) about clothing styles. It was such great encouragement. Thank you for everything you’ve been sharing! Terry, Knutsford, BC 🇨🇦
I’m so glad you’ve been enjoying it! It’s been a real joy to make and share and I’m just happy there’s actually useful information mixed in with all of the babble.
Tazhi, this was such a great episode, and so full of wisdom! I’m two plus years into my spinning, and I totally went in for the ALL the hand painted braids. Now I’m patiently working on spinning down the stash, planning projects as I go. The struggle of learning something new is real, especially as an adult learner. I started playing a new to me instrument a year ago, and I was ready to quit before my first lesson. I could apply everything you were saying, about sucking at the beginning of learning to spin, to my new musical journey. Just hearing your “ten things I wish I knew” about your journey had me nodding along in affirmation. “Just keep spinning, just keep spinning, that’s what we do, we spin…”
I’m going to sing that to myself all the time so thanks for that! Also happy foray into making music - it’s a wonder to me all the things our bodies can do if we give them time and space to learn and play and explore.
I will not let myself pick up spinning because it would get me in so much trouble! 😂
So, I do the next best thing and watch spinning vlogs. It’s so therapeutic and beautiful 🤩!! Great advice! I will have to use that. The ugly monster especially 🫣! My stash of yarn and sewing 🪡 🧵 and stamps, paint 🎨 crafts are topped off. 😂
So true about the dragon. I don't spin, but all the pretty yarn and new patterns can be so hard to resist!
Buying “stuff” when I need to sleep…oh, I needed to hear that.
also-i took a10 year break from spinning for a myriad of life's lessons.
best lesson-your hands and heart remember
The dragon is real!!! I’ve been spinning a little over a year now. The spindles are a deep deep rabbit hole 😳 and all the fiber! I just detstashed lots of single skeins of yarn that are no longer bringing joy. I was subscribed to the Hello Yarn fiber club but stopped as I can’t keep up with all the things!!! I love your videos. Really appreciated your being real and vulnerable on your down day. We all have them.
It’s always something you go into a new hobby technically knowing: that you’re going to suck, and it’s not going to be perfect. But we all seem to forget it as soon as we start. 😅 I’m so guilty of that. “What do you mean I’m not instantly perfect at this brand new skill I have never tried before??? Preposterous!!”
Also thank you for saying you don’t need to spin every day. I’ve only just started my spinning journey, and I have felt like I’m never going to make any progress if I don’t practice every day. I’m a nurse who, until next month (starting a new job as an OR nurse!) have been doing twelve hour shifts, and most times after a shift, the only thing I want to do is go to bed. So that’s honestly relief to know that it’s not going to hinder my success.
I felt that DEEPLY - “oh you mean I’m not immediately a master maker? How dare, time to throw the wheel out the window!”
Also, welcome to the OR! I want to smash my head into the wall some days but I wouldn’t trade my career for the world.
@@stitchesandstarlight Thank you!! I'm super stoked to start learning all the new things.
Finally catching up to these.
Just to show how real "everyone learns differently" is, personally I picked up the basics of spinning almost instantly, but *knitting* still completely baffles me even after 30 years of trying and several very long projects. If I make a mistake or drop a stitch, I still have to have someone else fix it because I can't.
(Also, the urge to hoard tools is real haha)
Listening to you talk about breeds was helpful. I'm still a new spinner, but my projects I had a harder time with happen to be spun with rambouillet. I still have more skills to practice, but I'm realizing there were some breeds I enjoyed spinning with over others.
Loved spindle spinning today with your video. I"m forwarding this on to two friends who are hard on themselves on their spinning journey
Slowly catching up on all these wonderful videos! As a very new spinner (who sucks) I really appreciated this! I also can heavily relate to buying craft materials when I should just go to sleep. I over-researched and overbought yarn over the pandemic, and since I've been working on unlearning some of those habits. I have a huge stash of nonsuperwash colourwork yarn, which I do really like, but as I really love to knit gifts I've realized I should have invested more in acrylic and superwash that are more gift-friendly. Which is definitely counterintuitive to a lot of conventional recommendations, but would have been less wasteful for me in the long run, because only some people are up for a wool gift.
"Everyone sucks in the beginning." "Embrace the suck." Amen, hallelujah. I will continue to suck.
For now! You just have to be patient with yourself while you’re learning.
I've watched every single vlog, and I don't even spin, hah! It's still so very interesting to me as a knitter. :)
In another wooly group I’m in people often say that when trying something new you have to be brave before you can be good.
Something I try when I seem to shop too much is to fill the cart, get the dopamine hit from adding all the joys into the cart… then walk away for 24hrs. I end up either forgetting about it or realizing I don’t need it right now, or I still love it and buy it. But the cool down helps and I still had fun shopping and adding to cart even if I don’t buy.
This is excellent advice and a good tip - thank you for sharing!
Don’t shop, go to sleep! Ya cut me deep with that one! 😂😅
I’m so enjoying Vlogmas Tazhi! Thanks for letting us a little further into your brain and into your life. ❤
Thank you so much for being here! I’m so glad there’s useful information and joy in the middle of all of the babble.
I am a spinner from french alps... Thank you soooooo much for this spinning liste. I does make sense to me!
I adore southdown! It is definately a different experience. You might want to try some long draw on a support spindle, which is my favorite way to spin it.
This prep isn’t designed for any sort of long draw spinning - I’ve tried. It might just be a bad representation of the breed, I’ve spun carded down breeds with no problem in the past.
Interesting to hear your reflections on your spinning journey Tazhi. Even though I don't spin, I can relate to the "buying all the tools" and "hoarding all the things". During lock-down my yarn buying went through the roof but I also realised I picked up my knitting when something emotional was going on for me that I couldn't verbalise. So now I try and shop from my stash but also don't get mad with myself- it was my way of coping and I will use it all up eventually ☺
Rambouillet makes the world go round :)
Thanks for this episode and the really helpful advice. What I heard and what I needed to hear is: be patient with yourself! ❤️
Ive watched every single of your vlogmas last year when I was trying to decide if I want to spin or not. So 2 wheels and a bunch of wool later im here. Thank you Tazhi! Spinfluenced!
That escalated quickly 😂😂😂 happy making! I hope your two wheels and your budding stash continue to delight you.
okay love that you call it a dragon. as a Dragon zodiac, now I fully understand more my innate urge to hoard all the things.
This is such a cool fact about you I didn’t know and I’m so glad I get to continue to get to know you better.
Thank you so much for this video, Tazhi! Probably my favorite one yet of this vlogmas season. Because of the content you put on UA-cam, I took a spinning class this past summer and I have a wheel on the way as a combined birthday/Christmas present to myself. While my dragon is always SO TEMPTED by the hand-dyed braids, I just purchased a plethora of small portions of different breeds to practice on and figure out what I like. Ya gurl already has an expensive yarn problem... can't be buying sweater quantities of hand-dyed fiber before I'm even fully comfortable spinning! While I'm not putting pressure on myself to be good immediately, I'd love to become a technical spinner eventually, able to make yarn deliberately for the project I want... so thank you for the encouragement to keep notes. Incidentally, I fell into sheep ownership by accident, and have five Shetland girls whose fleece I taught myself how to shear this past year and plan on fully processing myself once I get over being intimidated by the process. I'm sorry I missed running into you at Maryland Sheep & Wool this past spring because I would love to tell you in person how much I enjoy your channel and how pivotal it has been for my fleece and fiber journey thus far. Sending you warmth and brightness this holiday season!
You are living the PEAK wool chaos life and I am vicariously enjoying the Shetland ladies through you. Welcome to the spinsterhood and I hope you have the most fun getting to know your new wheel and all of the yarn that will come off of it.
Thank you for these sit-and-spins, especially talking about spinning - but I loved the one about holiday traditions too as I also had experience with fruitcake. I've been spinning for about 15 yrs, and I started with support spindling, but I found that my sense of what spinning is didn't match the vocabulary of everyone else's practice. I really appreciate your granular view which gets closer to what we have in our hands and what we do.
Yes, exactly this! What we have in our hands and what we do with it is how I want to approach this craft. All the technicalities are just fluff and supporting material.
I love the sit and spin videos! I don’t spin (I have a couple drop spindles but I’m terrible at it and haven’t devoted the time to getting better), but just watching your spinning along with your chat about whatever topic you’ve picked is soothing, deep, and fun (depending on the topic)!
Embrace the suck!-- I love it!!
One of my favourite channels so anything you post I'm excited for. I loved last years vlogmas and this year's.
Thank you so much for watching and for the kind comment.
I'm doing a quarterly no buy. The goal for me is to only buy advents next year and now I need to set a limit on those too 😂
Love you too Tazhi, my totally favourite Vlogmas x
Omg with the fiber club. I did join it cos it was easy. I was so guilty quitting them. But I had too. I was drowning with fiber I didn’t like the colors. Also yes, hello yarn is the only one I have now. I love the breed selection too.
I love when you share your thought process, it helps me understand your experience with the wool that you are spinning. The top you are spinning seems so lifeless. I wonder if it would have helped to steam it before spinning? This has helped me with some commercial "roving" that I bought for my first spins. Another way that I found to open up wool that is somewhat felted is to sink the teeth of a metal comb through the fibers several times along the length of the sliver. I am still very much a beginner and don't yet have a lot of fiber tools, so I use what I have on hand, in thus case it was a groomer's comb 😊
I think this is just a bad prep of this breed - I’ve spun the down breeds in carded form and I liked it so much more than this top situation. It wasn’t felted or matted, it was just a mix of different staples so it was hard to find a drafting rhythm and because it was combed, it was hard to spin woolen. I do have a plan for the next time I tackle it in this box though.
I'm just starting spinning, so this was great!
I’m slowly catching back up on vlogmases. Life got busy but I’ve got a 12hr sitting shift so I can let the videos play in the bg. At this point I’m convinced we’re the same person lol. I also thought I wanted to do art yarn and idk where I got that from. 😂 I hate working with art yarn so idk why I thought I wanted to make so much of it. I also thought I had to be good at spinning bc I’ve had so much experience with other crafts but like duh this is different. I also bought so much merino and I just do not like it. I like longer staple lengths. I have never joined a fiber club bc I feel the same way about quitting 😂. I don’t want to hurt people’s feelings. Omg. You’re calling me out on the sleep shopping. 😔
Thank you so much for another wonderful vlog! Taming that dragon is so hard and so necessary. It's been almost a year since my last yarn festival and I am going to try another year. I really need to make a dent in my pile 😅. Everything you said was so true, thanks. I also have to work on the fear of missing out thing. 😊
So do I! We’re all learning together.
Loved this! Thank you for your spinning tips. So far I've been spinning for the vibes but I do want to learn to make yarn that I actually want to knit and crochet with. I spun some corriedale on my spindle today. My first time spinning since the spring. It was really enjoyable, even if my finished yarn is not great. Thank you for your warmth and encouragement and enthusiasm for crafts! It brightens my day every time I watch one of your videos. ❤
Spinning for the vibes is an excellent place to start - once you get more comfortable with the basics, it’ll become easier to start being more intentional about your yarns.
Hey new friend. I found you recently because so many people mentioned you in their podcasts. And i totally see why. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
I learned spinning spontaneously in august. I was traveling in Ladakh (india) and found a spindle on my search for cashmere wool. So i bought it and tried to find someone to teach me. It was a supported spindle called phang (i obviously had no idea at that point). So i went to a nomad village in the Himalayas and a nice older lady showed me and gave me her old spinning bowl. Obviously I had to buy a kg of fresh shoren cashmere and 2kg of yak wool from the same village. Cause it's more fun to start unprepared and learn on a whim. Amazing experience. And let me tell it is sooo much easier to learn with nicely prepared wool. But I love the experimenting. I got some different fibers and spindles on occasion like some Indian silk from south India and a friend just got me some baby camel wool from the desert in Rajasthan. So i have a fun beginner stash for experimenting. And through people like you i learn along the way. So thank you for that.
Have a lovely day
You have a very fun and varied stash - happy making and happy spinning all of those luxury fibers!
Tazhi! I’m loving your vlogs! You’ve inspired (enabled?) me to get spindles and fiber and now I’m going to have to learn a whole new hobby 😂
Welcome to the spindlehood! It’s really full of joy and light and magical fidget sticks here.
My shopping habits are related to my hormonal cycle. Ovulation insomnia and later leutal phase are big impulsive times for me.
I wonder if this connection is true for me as well - I pay so much attention to my cycle in connection with the moon but it never occurred to me to investigate my sleep habits as well.
Oh my gosh you have me doing the present dance every morning when I do my advents 😝😝
It’s infectious, isn’t it?!
I regret giving away my clemes and clemes modern wheel. Also don't buy a wheel cause it's pretty. I'm looking at you Kromski Mazurka. Best thing that ever happened for my fiber addiction is joining my local fiber guild. I learned so much from the people in the guild.
I’ve had a wheel I was given years ago I almost never use cuz I’m so bad at it lol I also knit left to right so I get up in my head about which hand, which direction, etc and just end up over twisting “all the things” …I want to love spinning more than I do at this moment cuz I’d kill to knit all the things w hand spun! Love your content!
It’s just practice! Everyone over twists everything in the beginning and one day it’ll click and things will just get that much better.
I just started spinning this month and let me tell you about how much I suck! But that’s part of why I love learning something new, the experience of seeing yourself slowly improve is part of the fun!
Exactly this! I love the opportunity to be a beginner and learn something new, it’s a real treat to be able to do so.
Excellent episode!
Tahziiiiii your videos have been such a comfort during this time. Sending love to you and your family!
Great vid and been loving the vlogmas! ❤ On the point of trying out different breeds- try different dyers too! Bases are so different, which is surprising! I too am a targhee fan but I have found that Woolfiend’s targhee blooms and gets SO SQUISHY compared to other dyer’s targhee and so now I definitely go out of my way to use hers cuz the floof is to die for! Also I thought I hated BFL for a hot minute until I realized it was just the base that a dyer carried that I hated lol.
This is very, very true! I had a similar experience with BFL and now it’s one of my favorites to spin - just have to source it from the right dyer!
I’m wondering if that Southdown is super washed.🤔All the fibre I dizzied off my blending board was Southdown and I’ve spun it from top, and it did not look or behave like that. Thanks for taking the time to share these videos because they are work.❤🫶🏾
I don’t know what was up with this but I have some strategies for tackling it on the next day - I think I’m going to spin it over the fold and try it that way.
Thank you Tazhi, I'm a new spinner and this was such a nice video to start my morning! I feel much better about my spinning journey knowing that my struggles are normal. I've been watching your vlogmas and it's great, I just NEED to know what the background music is called, because it's living in my head rent free and is soo pleasant. 🤩
Here’s a link to it on UA-cam - I find it really soothing to listen to as well which is why I haven’t changed it yet - I tried something else but I keep coming back to this. m.ua-cam.com/video/AePAkSwq00k/v-deo.html
Hi Tazhi! I have a question: what kind of notes would you recommend keeping when you're spinning on a drop spindle?
The same notes I take spinning on a wheel - it’s less the how and more of what I’m producing.
Idk why you think that your earlier episodes were not great - I’ve loved all of them, mostly because I love people who are very much themselves.
I think the content in them is great, I just know so much more about production quality and what I want the videos to look like - I still am and I should practice being kinder to myself - and I’m a bit hard on myself about how the videos look and the editing. But thank you so much for saying so, I think I needed to hear this so I can stop being so mean to myself about the videos I made as I was learning!
@@stitchesandstarlightsomeone told me “all beginners suck”….
I’m ready to make it weird and say I won’t rest til we’re BFFs
You can slide into my DMs anytime - that’s literally how I made all of my friends in the crafting community. I just showed up and lever left 😂😂😂
@@stitchesandstarlight ua-cam.com/video/k1yTWauVjwo/v-deo.htmlsi=51X-2sVIhH7Ka1eK
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So which yarn do you “drool over on instagram?” I’d love to know!
Most of my friends on Instagram are my favorite spinners, but to name a few Melody at pacificcoasterfibres, Hikari Handmade, and Vivian at whatvivdoes.
One day. One day I will dive into the world of spinning and I will drown. I know myself. I will try to learn how to spin on some antique spinning wheel and I will be way to afraid to mess upp pretty wool so I will get the cheapest stuff I can find and I will beat myself up because it's not turning out the way I want.. and somehow I will still get absolutely obsessed and drive my poor boyfriend up the walls
It’s a slippery slope but you’re in good company down here at the bottom.
Speaking of exuberance, I'd much rather spend time with a stream of consciousness chaotic narrative over a carefully enunciated almost scripted content. It's how I approach the world and my love of fiber arts
Thank you for saying so - sometimes I get stuck in my head and the words don’t come out as nicely as I wish but I do my best thinking this way so the chaotic exuberance is here to stay!
Maybe santa will bring you a lws for Christmas…..I just got one for my lendrum…really luv it….I have a woolie winder for my Fantasia that I lurve also but I like being able to to use the bobbins that I have already…..highly recommend…..can’t wait to meet you at vkl….thanks for sharing…..✂️🎄
I’m actually not interested in any of the autowinders for my wheel - I like being able to control how my bobbins wind on so I don’t plan on buying one for any of my wheels or spinners.