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YST Episode 94 TdF Day 1 and 2 report Jul 02, 2013

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We're off and spinning fiber into yarn as the cyclist tour France. I have set daily goals and hope to release reports periodically during the TdF.

Music today is Mountains by Katy Pfaffl and can be found on MusicAlley.

YST Episode 93 Preparing for the TdF Jun 25, 2013

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Once again Team YST is planning to spin every day of the Tour de France for Ravelry's Tour de fleece. Come join all the fun and cheerleading and inspirations.

I talk about the decision to do lots of fiber processing for this year's challenge. Just a hint, there's lots of Shetland!

Music in todays podcast is by Dan Montgomery and is called Spinning My Wheels, appropiate! It can be found on Music Alley.

You can find me on Twitter here which will give the links to the audioboos I will try and publish daily during the TdF. Or go to Audioboo and search for YST to find them.

YST Team for Tour de Fleece Jun 07, 2013

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We'd all love as many of you listeners to come and join us on Ravelry for the annual Tour de Fleece June 29th through July 21st. Team Yarnspinnerstales can be found at the Tour de Fleece group under the wild card team thread, or search the groups for Team Yarnspinnerstales and you should find it. See you there!

YST Episode 92 Yarn and a book review May 31, 2013

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Not all of my experiments with spinning work, and in the first part of this podcast I talk about my recent attempt and non success making a yarn.

The review is for the book The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs by Sarah Anderson.

Music in today's podcast can be found on Music Alley The interlude is from Spin Win It by Ex Norwegian. The closing song Learning to Balance is by Daniel McCormick.

YST Episode 91 What I learned Apr 26, 2013

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A follow up on the skein plied with commercial yarns. I split each type and washed one half in order to compare and see if it made any significant difference in the yarns.

The second part of the podcast is a ramble about what I learned about myself as a spinner, as I prepared a fiber swap box for a swap partner.

Music is from Music Alley. The theme song is by Jon Caspi and the First Gun. An interlude around the word twist included music by Filip Marian and M C Robin. A second interlude was Fantasy for Two by Michael Van Laar.

Closing song is The Learning Curve by Paul Rose

YST now has a Twitter account, and I have started posting three minute audios through Audioboo as tweets.

YST Episode 90 Plying with commercial yarns Mar 16, 2013

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The why and hows of plying your handspun singles with commercial yarns.

Music is from Music Alley and includes an interlude called Yarn by Cyrusfx and the closing song Mistreating Yarn Blues by Jacob Haller.

Photos of the yarns can be found here on my blog.

YST Episode 89 Thinnest threads Feb 04, 2013

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This podcast episode is another review of a spinners' exchange. This time the challenge was to spin as fine a thread, fondly known as froghair spinning. In the podcast I review what the spinners and myself learned with this challenge.

Music is from Music Alley and has the theme 'thread'. The interlude is Hyperthread by Podcast Troubadour. The closing song is Threads of Time by Jennifer Avalon.

YST Episode 88 A Different Exchange Jan 27, 2013

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Today's podcast reviews a time when a dozen different spinners all decided to spin angora and share their samples with each other.

Music is from Music Alley and is very nicely named All Things Rabbit by Michael Bellar.

YST Episode 87 A fresh start Dec 31, 2012

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Goodbye 2012! It was a good year for spinning projects and other things in my life. This short podcast talks about how I look at the new year.

Music is from Music Alley provided by various musicians who willing share their music with podcasters. In return, I hope you give them your support, if you like their music.

Theme song: Spin-A song for all children by Jon Caspi

Interlude: A Fresh Start by The Havenots

First ending song: It's a New Years Day by Denise Moser on the Cyber PR Label

Second closing song: Happy New Year by Colie Brice

Best wishes for a wonderful new year to my listeners!

YST Episode 86 Porch spin in and breed review Dec 10, 2012

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The first section of the podcast is a review of the Katahdan breed, also called the hair sheep. Because these fleeces contain a large amount of hair like fiber, I also discuss the process known as dehairing. Carolina Homespun is one of the mills that currently has a machine to do this process, and they show it being done in this Youtube video.

I mentioned previously talking about pygora, and that I would list the episode link, but right now I can not find that I actually did talk about this fiber....I may have to remedy that soon!

Music is from MusicAlley The new theme song is Spin-A Song for Children of all ages by Jon Caspi and the First Guns. Ordinary Day is sung by Great Big Sea The closing song, to get us all in the holiday spirit is The Christmas Song, in a very special way by the Limey Birds

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