Well done. Very easy to follow.

Yes it would be helpful to have a ratio video. This one was very clear!

Thank you for showing how to spin across the top so clearly. I started spinning recently and was struggling with spinning across the top. I’ve watched multiple videos, but all I ever heard was that the hand holding the fibre supply was “doing all the work”, without really clearly showing what was happening or explaining it clearly. So far, I’m managing short forward draw and long draw reasonably well, but I’ve been gifted a gorgeous gradient braid. I want to keep the gradient intact and as long and gradual as possible, in order to knit a lace gradient half pi shawl with it. The gradient goes from dark blue to white and I have extra white fibre I can use to knit a knitted on lace border, which means I can just keep on knitting until I run out of yarn, and then do the border. Now I can start practicing without fear of messing up too much fibre and then I’ll be able to open up that braid…

Thank you for spinning it slow and explaining exactly how it twists the ply. I have watched several other videos and they just confused me. I now feel very confident on how to Navajo ply and will be trying it tomorrow.

How cost a loom please

Hi, wondering if you've continued with the horizontal feed method, and have anything to add?

I just got a drum carder and found your videos, imagine out of the box I quickly grabbed some alpaca, fluffed it, and sent it through. It quickly wound mostly around the large drum, but much on the smaller one! Duh! Didn’t move smaller drum forward, didn’t put wool first… just straight through like you would regular wool and wondered why it went in small drum. Laughing at myself now. Wish you were still filming.

If there are issues with spinning it you said it could be quality? I’m thinking more processing. That’s not the same, yes? That would depend on the yarn you want to create?

Very helpful thank you!

Hello I have recently gotten a matchless and despite oiling is squeaking quite a bit. I don't want to damage it! I tried calling the guild in Cincinnati but the voicemail is full. Do you know anyone in or near Cincinnati that might be able to help me figure out the squeak? Thank you!

Hi Stephanie, You mentioned in your "How to Spin a Gradient Yarn" getting together a team for "Tour de Fleece". Are you still getting a team together for 2024? You also mentioned having a LIVE spin together on Tuesdays. Are you doing the Lives? thanks

Hi, thank you for your video on spinning a gradient braid. You were very helpful.

This is more of a woollen spin rather than a worsted 😊

Love your channel! You are a beautiful soul! Thank you for the content you put out there.

Good demonstration. I love the look of lock-spun yarn. I often spin it myself - you can’t buy this in a store, and I find it sells quickly at my guild sale.

Hi Stephanie, I am subscribed to you channel! I really enjoy your videos. I would like to learn to do art yarn, thick in part and unusual yarn combos, etc... And I would like to use the tools you are using. Could you do a tutorial on how to pick a carding drum, brushes, mat and spinning tools. What works for you? What do you like? Thank you so much. I really appreciate it! Keep making beauty! Thank you again.

So interesting, can thicker yarn be made on a drop spindle

I just learned myself that sometimes dye (no matter how much you use) if there is still lanolin in the fleece, the dye will not 'take' or if you have a type of bacteria in it that has stained it - no amount of scouring or dying with change the yellowing Just an fyi

I have found that dividing the Roving into Slivers and pre-drafting the Slivers (30% longer) does save time and work when spinning the yarn. I spin on a Haldane Orkney wheel and ply on an Ashford Traditional wheel. I can spin and ply and pound of roving into 2-ply worsted yarn of twenty wraps per inch, in three days.

This is a nice video! I think the way that works for you is the right way to do anything. I imagine the rationale to turn the fiber sideways is to misalign the fibers, but ultimately they probably get pretty much aligned again. I just bought a drum carder and I've never felt more creative. There is nothing better than spinning my own yarn to knit. Cheers from Saint Paul, MN!

No you are not doing it wrong. Either way it doesn't matter because you are creating a woolen batt. Worsted is only achieved with combs

I haven’t tried that technique. I may have to try it. Most fiber gurus I’ve seen feed it in going towards the teeth.

really enjoyed that, thanks!

Thank you! Very helpful! 🙂

Would you please be able to do some videos with gloves primarily the blue powder free blue nitrile gloves in the hands size of size small for a nicer tighter better feel on your hands and for a nicer tighter better feel on your hands? Please let me know at your convenience!

It’s stunning 🤩

Thank you for the demo

Hi, I am a new spinner just learning to spin using a drop spindle and I am fascinated by this video. I am a mixed media artist addicted to texture as well as colour and your plying techniques really speak to me. I have yet to tackle plying so it might be a while before I can do stuff like this. Probably a wheel would be necessary to get the various tensions required. So in the future for now but lots to think about. Thanks for sharing your processes.

I've been purchasing wool yarn from the amish and recently bought a 100lb bundle from a spinner in new Zealand looking forward to getting it

Thanks so much from another visual learner.

Can’t post pics in comments

You didn’t show how to get the warp through the holes.

No.. continue with natural colors. There are many blending board videos and they all have really bright colors. I was glad to see one with natural colors.

Looks beautiful

The fiber you are using is already processed.

that is a lot of waste

New to spinning and found this super interesting and now I want to do it too. Thank you!!

I am actually working on a vanilla sweater kit from wooly thistle, sleeves, not my favorite part. I am thinking of steeking into a cardigan, not crazy for pull-overs. Yes not very soft to the skin.

Thankyou so much!

Chain ply, not Navajo.

Last comment, I promise!!! There is a cross stitch pattern, large, titled His Eye is on the Sparrow.

I am so happy to see you! Thanks for being willing to share your adventures and projects. Hugs for your recent changes and heartache. Spinning and knitting are my therapy. I can't wait to see your progress on these projects. ❤

I am so sorry about Grace. The greatest pain there is, to lose a child. Grieving is hard. And long. And different for everyone. Be gentle with yourself.

I am happy to have found you!! I have been knitting for 67 years, learning at age 10. Retired RN. Congrats to you for returning to school!!

Thank you so much for this video! I was given a suri fleece some time ago, and have not been sure of how to handle it.

Thank you for this video!

Just beautiful. Thank you.

Agree with Michell Erwin, depends what result you want, more woolen or more worsted (obvs can't be proper worsted). Not seen it fed in horizontal to the licker-in but have seen commercial carded prep where alternate layers had been fed in on the opposite diagonal slant which would give a more woolen result than feeding straight in.

You can see my new videos with some advice on carding raw fleece on my Vikkiknit channel.

I also saw this on a blog and have tried it, and it works well. Not sure if it's better, but fine.