Dear Spinning Circle,

Today. On Wool n’ Spinning Radio. Rebecca and Rachel sat down to chat about a mammoth in the room, which is fibre preparation. It has become such a major focus of what we talk about in this community and other handspinning communities, that we wanted to talk about it. While fibre preparation is a huge source of excitement and motivation to pull things out and prepare fibres, including those amazing fleeces many of us have in our stashes, it is also a time consuming and often expensive endeavor, particularly when looking at the possibility that tools need to be purchased.

Over the past month or so, Rebecca and I have been working on a flowchart (see attached) associated with this episode of WnS Radio. You can download it and explore the PDF while you are listening to this episode or save it for later if you follow the links in the show notes wherever you are listening to this. This flowchart is a Beta version of our ideas and we are going to be working in this throughout the remainder of the winter and into the Spring. There will be more pages added to it – we just haven’t quite gotten there yet! Any thoughts you have that would be helpful, please place them in the comments of the Patreon post – we would love to hear them.

What have been your road blocks with fibre preparation? If you live with mobility or accessibly issues, we would love to hear how that affects your fibre preparation.

Where would you categorise yourself on the scale from fibre preparation artist to hand spinner?

Direct Patreon Link here (for graphics)

If you have questions about what we discussed in today’s episode, please post them in the community, either as part of the Slack channel (available through Patreon) or on the Ravelry group, Wool n’ Spinning. Of course, we would love to welcome you to our community. Membership in the community provides you access to an amazing archive of teaching vlogs & posts that will help you on your handspinning journey. I am also here as a resource to help you! The Join button is on the landing page on Patreon for those wishing to learn more.

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I hope you enjoy our conversation. Until next time, Happy Spinning!

Rachel & Rebecca

I hope you enjoyed our conversation. If this is your first time tuning into Wool n’ Spinning Radio, welcome. This audio podcast is a spin-off from the original podcast available on YouTube at youtube.com/RachelSmith. Rachel has been podcasting since 2014, talking about handspinning and making yarn. Her passion is working with her handspun yarns in projects, both knit and woven. Links to the website, Instagram and more are available in the show notes and at Patreon.com/woolnspinning.

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Until next month, keep wool close and your spindles closer!