Using your cards to blend your spinning fibers opens up a world of options for your spinning. I love to blend, especially for color, and routinely combine different wools or other fibers together to make a custom yarn, unique to me and my projects. With a few tips and some basic guidelines, you can make…
Doing your own wool preparation is a big step toward expanding into all sorts of specialty or one of a kind fleeces that will be wonderfully interesting to spin! How do you get that new to you wool ready to card? We’ll go over the things you need to know before and during carding to…
Are you wondering if using a flick carder for your wool is a good idea or not? We’ll go over some tips to help you get the most out of your wool and your flick carder. Have thigh protection for flick carding Have some sort of thigh protection before you start flick carding, other wise…
If you are a beginner, looking into preparing wool for handspinning or felting, you will have come across many sites and shops with hand carders for sale. But, you aren’t quite sure yet what exactly hand carders do and why and if you would need them. What are wool hand carders used for? Wool hand…
When you decide to jump into preparing your own spinning fiber, you know that you’ll need a carder to use for your wool preparation. Now, you need to pick the one to buy and there are quite a few choices! Which carder do you need and why? Choose a drum carder for higher volume carding,…
What are you going to do with all of that mohair you just purchased? The beautiful lustrous yarn you were thinking of when you clicked the “buy now” button is only a few steps away, but how to get there? How do you go from the raw mohair that came in the box to a…
You decided to purchase some unwashed, straight from the sheep wool for your handspinning! To get that wool ready for spinning, you plan to card it, but, the real question is: do you have to wash the wool before carding it? Wool does not have to be washed before carding, if you are willing to…
Do you really need to buy wool hand carders for your fleece preparation? Why not just use dog brushes, instead? Dog brushes are pretty cheap and available just about anywhere. Sounds good so far! Now, the big question: do dog brushes actually work for wool? Dog brushes will work for small amounts of very clean…