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Shearing Day For Blackberry

Someone is in dire need of a haircut.

Spinning Angora Is Now On Michael's!

Michael's is quite seriously my favorite craft store. So I'm thrilled that The Spinning Angora is now in their online Makerplace....

Fall Updates

I put together on FB a portfolio of work and also a list of fiber mills useful to angora owners. Portfolio- https://www.facebook.com/1291...

New Yarns!

Available on Etsy. This latest is Blackberry's last clipping. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1233294441/pure-german-angora-handspun-yarn

Silk!

I've begun now using red eri silk and gold muga with the angora. Excited to find how they may add sparkle to the yarn. Both of these...

Carding Angora

Angora, especially for newbies, can be difficult to spin because it is slippery. I learned to spin with German Angora because I had two...

Beginning Spinning Videos

Kelley's Spinning Class covers all the basics to get you up and spinning from how to draft on to plying. https://tutorials.knitpicks.com/...

Angora Blends

These are some of the results of my last commission of 4.5 pounds of pure German Angora and some variously blended with alpaca, merino or...

On The Wheel: Alpaca

A local alpaca farm has trusted me with their carded huacaya roving from their alpaca named Topaz to spin on a 80/20 commission basis....

Disaster!

Its been exciting. My Bluebonnet Bumblebee wheel broke its crankshaft. Of all the things that COULD have broken, this was the most...

Wool Gathering

A beautiful week gathering surplus fleece and fibers at farms around Siskiyou County. Three colors of beautifully clean ready to spin...

Fair Time

I entered 5 exhibits at the Humboldt County Fair in Ferndale and won 4 Blues and a Red. A blue for 60/40 merino/angora blend 2 ply DK...

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