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flips [they/them]Jul 12, 2025

so the new spinning wheel (an #Ashford Kiwi3) arrived on Thursday and I have been spinning every free minute.
It is just so nice to have a wheel that cooperates. The antique wheel was more of a spicy cat - which I love as cats but not as tools.
Today I got tonknow the different speeds and had my first try at art yarn. I was going for a boucle and it was so much fun. I was also trying to spin a very fine yarn but overspun it 😅
#TourDeFleece #Spinning #tdf

flips [they/them]Jul 6, 2025

After being scammed out of an used spinning wheel amount of money last week, I adjusted my course. I started spinning with my antique and moody castle wheel again - to tell my neurospicy brain that the world won't end if I don't get a new wheel. But since I sill want a less moody and more versatile wheel, I opted to rent a new one with the option of buying it later.
I also started #TourDeFleece early (and with one full bobbin) so this is what my antique and I managed this week. #spinning

flips [they/them]Mar 10, 2025

I have a cold but I'm still well eough to lie down and knit.
So knit I did. I finished a scarf and a pair of socks and frogged a cowl that I started with too small needles and cast it on again.
I am using handspun yarn for the colour changing bits and I love how it is turning out.
The pattern is the forests of Arda cowl by Melanie Rountree. My first time doing cables and colourwork at the same time but it works up quite fast. (Could also be the 7mm needles lol)
#knitting #spinning

flips [they/them]Mar 2, 2025

cats know why there is only a one letter difference between plying and playing

#spinning #handSpinning #spinningWheel #fiberArts #Cat #CatsOfMastodon

flips [they/them]Feb 16, 2025

preparing a nice shot with a cat lol
i knitted an blocked a swatch of my handspun mystery wool yesterday and it did not grow. so i was confident enough to cast on a hat with it. let's see how it goes
#spinning #HandSpinning #spinningwheel #knitting #fiberarts @knitting @fiberarts

flips [they/them]Feb 15, 2025

my mystery fiber has now transformed into mystery wool and is ready for its first bath.
now i kinda hope that it is not alpaca since i want to knit a hat and it shouldn't grow too much with blocking please.
but i have some mohair i can hold with it so that might help

#spinning #handspinning #spinningwheel #knitting #fiberarts @fiberarts

flips [they/them]Feb 12, 2025

I am spinning a mystery fiber right now that I inherited with no information. it drafts soo smooth and has a halo that reminds me of alpaka wool.
do you have a method on how to identify mystery wool?
(i'm well aquainted with the burn test. i rather mean what kind of wool/animal fiber.)
#spinning #SpinningYarn #spinningwheel #HandSpinning #fiberarts @fiberarts

flips [they/them]Feb 8, 2025

fresh off the wheel :D can't wait to knit with these but first they need to relax a little bit (who doesn't enjoy a relaxing bath)
fiber is a wool, silk and tencel mix from regenbogenwolle
#spinning #HandSpinning #SpinningWheel #FiberArts @fiberarts

flips [they/them]Feb 15, 2023

My people energy is running empty, I have no voice left, I'm sitting at a cold train station waiting for a train that is 30minutes late and I'm the happiest I've been in a while. #ateez was amazing and if I had the money I would go straight back tonight.
This was my first #kpop concert and I'm hooked now. What a fucking show.

#AteezInBerlin

flips [they/them]Feb 13, 2023

OK, haven't posted in ages, but I will see #ateez tomorrow and I'm so excited and since I deleted insta, I need to vent somewhere. My whole diy inspiration and motivation has been making stuff to wear and my own merch. Because #kpop merch is way overpriced for how boring it looks. So etsy or diy it is.
First is a picture of my holo back patch. Design file I bought on etsy and made with my sister's cricut.
Second is a knitted hat with a holo break the wall tour patch. Yes, everything is holo.