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YST Episode 76 Listen to you Inner Spinner Jul 08, 2012

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This is the third installment of the daily updates for the Tour de Fleece spinning event.

Be sure to check out the different threads posted on Ravelry to see my fibers and yarns as well as many others by all the great spinners.

Music is from Music Alley (which seems to be working again) and is Jillian LaDage Midsummer Night.

YST Episode 75 The Wheel Keeps Spinning Jul 05, 2012

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Here's the second Tour de Fleece update podcast. Today Digitaldurga (ravelry name) joins me with her updates too.

Mohair I talk about is from Majora Acres

Natural Obsessions fiber can be found here

Music is from Music Alley and is the song Feather Lullaby by Tangential Cold

YST Episode 74 Let the Game Begin Jul 02, 2012

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Daily Tour de Fleece updates, that is the new experiment I am doing for this podcast. All during the Tour de France cycling event, Ravelry members, especially spinners, get out their spinning wheels, set goals for themselves, and keep those wheels spinning as much as possible. I love this event and use it to challenge myself back into spinning something everyday. This year I decided to add the goal of short podcasts about each day's spinning, combining several together into a podcast. So here we go go go....

I mentioned past podcasts and to find those go to the archives on this page, find the date and episode number, if you'd like to listen to them again. The big dye days are in Aug and Sept 2010 and are episodes 50,51 and 52. The spinning woolen episode is number 67 and is found in the Oct. 2011 archive.

Music today is from MusicAlley and the interlude music is the instrumental version of Lullaby for a Weary World, by Julia Ecklar

YST Episode 73 Chatting with the fiber folks May 26, 2012

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Straight from the meet up at a fiber festival we have interviews of three phat fiber folks. Don't know about Phat Fiber? Listen in to learn, and then go to their website or find the Ravelry group by searching groups for phat fiber sampler box. The indie dyer in the meet up is found at NaturalObsessions fiber and is a wonderful source for non wool fibers. The fiber producer of the group is found at her Etsy shop or at Fluffington Farms blogspot site. The fiber festival I went to is the Indiana Fiber and Music Fest. The fiber I was spinning was from The Painted Tiger.

The music in today's podcast is from the podsafe music site MusicAlley. The first song is Rumba Lullaby by Hathead. The second song was Lullaby in Loveland by Boho Chapeau. The closing song is Lullabyes Baby by Zaccheri Gray.

YST Episode 72 Support Spindles Apr 28, 2012

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Two sections of the post for support spindles, a book review and a discussion of my recent experience spinning angora on my three support spindles.

The book Fleegle Spins Supported is available here.

A YouTube video of me spinning cotton on the Royale Hare brass support spindle is found here and the spindle is available to order from her Etsy shop here. I apologize for saying on the podcast that the spindle was not readily available, I did not look up the link until after I did the recording, my bad!

The music in today's podcast is by singer/songwriter Emma Wallace who I found on MusicAlley. The piano piece is called Interlude, and the closing song is Support for my Argument.

My blog with photos can be found here.

Finally the Spinners Journal, a place to record all the processes of any of your spinning projects can be purchased here. Thanks for your support of this podcast by purchasing the journal!

YST Episode 71 Digital Sheep Mar 31, 2012

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OK so I'm playing on words with today's podcast title. I do two sheep breed reviews, Columbia and Rambouilette. Then I talk about the explosion of spinning information going digital. Hence, digital sheep.

A few links: Closing song is by Triple6RFusioN and is called First Day of Spring. You can find this and other music played on the podcast at Music Alley .

My blog is here and if you are looking to buy the Spinner's Journal, click here .

Spinning daily is where you will find all the good digital stuff.

YST Episode 70 Drumcarding Feb 21, 2012

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It's actually magic, taking washed but clumped fiber, putting it through the drum carder and getting fluffy batts ready to spin. It's a spinning project I only do now and then, after accumulating those piles of fleeces and other fibers ready to blend. Then I spend several months, in an hour here and there, creating the batts. After that, the fun begins, as I get to spin them and see what those blends will look like in yarn.

In today's podcast, I talk about my recent drumcarding projects, as well as some information for those spinners that may want to buy a carder, or have one that they still haven't worked up the nerve to use.

I will be putting pictures of the fiber, before and after on my blog.

Music in the podcast is from Music Alley and includes Proof of Love by Old Man Luedecke, also February by The Distants.

The Spinners Journal, a book I wrote to help you to document your carding or any spinning project is available to buy at this site.

YST Episode 69 Four Reviews Jan 07, 2012

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There are four reviews in today's podcast, two rare sheep breed's fiber, a spinning DVD and my trip to Stitches East.

The Oklahoma State University's website is a good place to start if you are looking for information on any animal including rare breed sheep:Breeds of sheep There are many wonderful resources for sale at the Interweave press website, books, ebooks, DVD, videos, books and magazines.Interweave pressThe specific DVD I review in this podcast "Spinning for Lace" by Margaret Stove is found at this link:Margaret Stove DVD linkFor information for your own trip to a Stitches convention, check out the Knitting Universe website:The Knitting Universe Prism yarns is also available at many yarn storesTeacher at Stitches Creative Director at Prism yarns is Laura Militzer Bryant and she taught the class on Intentional Patterning with Hand dyed Yarns.The spindle like the trindle I bought can be found at this Etsy store: TrindlemanNeed to get your spinning projects organized? Then my Spinner's Journal is just what you need!

YST Episode 68 Interviews with two scholar spinners Nov 16, 2011

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Janilee and Chris are both post graduate students at the Manchester England college. Both are spinners and weavers, but have two different concepts for their doctorial thesis. I was able to interview each and had a wonderful time talking to them. Listen in, and learn about early weavers and spinners, and the modern day archeological study of them.

Interlude music in today's podcast is from Music Alley and is by the group Celtic Stone. The title is Drowsy Maggie.

Looking for a link to buy my Spinner's Journal? It's on Lulu here.

YST A Spinner's Journal promo podcast Nov 05, 2011

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A Spinner's Journal, your own place to record all of the processes of the projects that turn fiber into yarn.

I am a note taker, list maker by nature, and for all the years I've been spinning, those notes are on many different pieces of paper. I found I still like to refer back to them, and decided I needed a better system for taking my notes. And if I needed it, I bet other spinners do too. So I created the Spinner's Journal and it's now finally available for sale.

I've given some details about the journal in this short promo podcast. Take a listen to see all the wonderful features of the journal.

The journal is available here. Or if you want to go to my blog yarnspinners dot blogspot dot com, you'll find a link button on the right hand side of the page.

Music in today's promo is from Music Alley and is called Drowsie Maggie by Celtic Stone.

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