Get ready to love carding your fiber! I truly enjoy using my drum carder and, once you learn a few simple tips for using your drum carder and removing that beautiful fiber batt, so will you! To use a drum carder: turn the handle clockwise as you place small amounts of fiber on the feed…
Choosing a drum carder is both exciting and confusing, at the same time! There are quite a few brands and models to choose from, so you’ll also have a lot to sort through before you can find the drum carder that is best for you! Let me help your sort your needs and wants by…
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,…
Thinking about getting a drum carder to make your fiber preparation go a little easier? What makes a drum carder so special, especially since there are other ways to prepare your fiber for spinning? Drum carders are fast and easy to use carders that make larger batts of spinning or felting fiber. Drum carders can…
Hand carders or drum carders, which will you get the most use out of for your handspinning projects? Really, that depends upon what you like to spin and how you want to prepare those fibers! So here’s a pros and cons list made from my experiences using both, to help you decide which carder will…
Are you considering getting a drum carder? Drum carders are definitely a time saver, especially compared to those hand carders or combs you are using now! But, drum carders are also pricey! Should you get a drum carder for your fiber preparation or are you really just as well off with the cards or combs…
There are a lot of lovely handspinning fleeces available online, at fiber festivals and maybe even from your own sheep. With all of those choices, it’s hard to pick! Then, you stop and think, yikes, what happens when I get that fleece home? How do I know if I have to wash the wool before…
If you dye your wool, you’ll get a huge range of color options and near infinitely increase your options! Who doesn’t want that? Now, the big question is when should you dye the wool, as fleece, yarn or the finished project? Dye wool before spinning if you want to blend colors, dye yarn for patterns…
You’ve decided that you want to have more control of the colors you work with when spinning wool. This way you can work with colors of your choice and dye more when you need it! Now that you have an idea of what you want, how do you get it? Should you dye the wool…