I’m looking to make connections with more Canadian suppliers of dyed fibres.

If you are an indie dyer based out of Canada who wants to work with a Canadian based Spinster, hmu and we can build a better textiles community in the wake of this Tarifficult Time

Intrigued? Click the read more for my vision on how this would shake down

TLDR: I offer you my services as a Spinner to supply your shop with handspun at a flexible cost per meter rate, and since many hands make light work if any other spinners wanted in on the racket they could DM me to have their name on a contact spreadsheet for dyers to use as a phonebook if they want to have a certain spinner’s touch

That’s it. That’s the idea.

With the tariffs ruining small business and lots of people losing crossborder income, I thought that we could work together to fill in the gaps.

I’m loving commission work so much and my local access to The Fiber Imp is a nice bonus but I want to work with more indie dyers and custom blends!

Ship me your new colourways and I will send back samples of it spun in different ways to show off it’s potential!

You want me to do swatches in knit/crochet/tunisian crochet to show to different crafters the way it pools?

Want to have a stock of handspun on hand but no time to spin it yourself?

Spinster-For-Hire, at your service!

Let me help you and get a bit more coin in my pocket to help my fledgling business leave the nest.

If I’m not the Spinster for you then maybe you would like to peruse our portfolio catalogue for the right person for the task?

Do you see it? Do you see my vision?

Lovely

I have had this braid sitting in my stash for some time because I’m uncertain how I want to spin it.

I spun a duplicate braid before just straight from the top without colour planning and the way it plied on itself looked icky to me and I’m still in the process of un-plying that one.

How should I spin this braid and please include your reasons in the tags so I can learn from your reasoning

New project! Finally finished the desert sunset sweater (I’ll post pics once I weave in all the many many ends) so I cast this on. It has a really fun and unique construction that’s been a fun change of pace. You make two triangles for the hips and then work in the round for a bit before splitting and knitting the front and back separately. The original is designed for stripes, but I thought this yarn would be self-stripy enough. Honestly, I can’t decide if I like the color pooling (I am alternating skeins even if you can’t really tell…), but it is lightweight and fun to knit.

My only complaint is how much gauge actually truly matters here. For the hip triangles- the width across is actually the *height* of the triangle, not the length of any of its sides. You can’t just add more rows necessarily like if you were knitting a normal sweater. Adding more rows changes a bunch of the dimensions. It was a nightmare trying to figure out if my gauge was ok or not. I couldn’t meet gauge no matter what I did (going up yet another needle size would have made the fabric so sheer!) so I had to hope for the best. Ugh. Honestly I wonder if the pattern was mismarked as needing fingering weight and not light fingering weight or maybe having it be wool truly matters? I don’t know. I can’t imagine I knit that much tighter- I generally knit with an even tension!

Pattern: Luminos Tee by Yamagara

Yarn: K+C Hand-dyed Cotton (I got it at Joanns (before the liquidation sale) for ~$4 a hank!) (I actually grabbed a few others too but they’re all single skeins of colors so that will be fun figuring out projects for them…) in Vanilla Swirl

Nooooooooo my sleeves are different lengths *crying screaming banging my fist on the wall*. I have to frog it and redo the one ): Woe is me! I hate sleeves. I was almost done too! and it came out exactly like I was envisioning! Despair ):

Pattern: Rattlesnake by Jamie Hoffman

Yarn: Knitpicks swish (amethyst heather) and wool of the andes (caution and paloma) and Knitpicks Hawthorne (jupiter speckle)

Other progress pics:

All my other knitting projects hit a snag, so I cast this on. I first tried to do in linen stitch, but my gauge was wayyyy off and I didn’t like how stiff the fabric was. So I played around with stitch textures and found this one. I’m still not sold on it, but I’m too far along to try anything else ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It also has a little cable to add more structure to the shoulder.

Yarn: Lucky Brand Bamboo in Blues

Pattern: I am winging a sideways knit shirt

Okay fibre freaks, who all has advent calenders for mini skeins and spinning wool?

Retweet this with your shop and any info you’d like, I feel like being nosey and stuff

Resisting the urge to just spin these up now because they are soooo pretty

I have so many other singles that I need to spin a mate for already 😭 I have to focus on the brown Merino X spin for now

It is really sproingy though and buttery to spin so I’m not too upset

WELCOME TO WOOLSTOCK DASHSWAMP 2024

I did promise pretties

First up is a repeat visit to Akara for more pretty fibre! Hands down one of my favorite local dyers and I was afraid they had disappeared when their website went down but they just relocated!

Continuing with the fibre haul, here is some BFL from a dyer I haven’t tried before called Lickety Spit but the seafoam greens and blues and the brown ensorcelled me

“You always get into hobbies then abandon them!” Nah I’m not abandoning I’m collecting. I can always ride any niche random spark of creativity at a moment’s notice, just simply pick back up one of the many work-in-progress projects I have. I’m dining at the buffet. The all you can eat salad bar. Everyone else is loading up on one thing but I got one of everything. Do I even still want these cucumber slices? Maybe not but they’re staying on my plate just in case I decide I do want them later. I might never finish all the cucumber slices because i filled up on spinach and couscous and 3 kinds of croutons but I have sampled every dish in this restaurant. The staff are asking me to leave for piling my plate too high. Help me quickly get some silverware in my bag and also im not paying. This is what it means to be a true creative. I am banned from 4 pizza huts.

Woodworking & Philosophy

Hand cut lap joints on shadow box frame. I am the friend of the wood. [1]

Notes:
1-“What Is Philosophy” by D&G