Wool n' Spinning Radio

Dear Spinning Circle, This month, on Wool n' Spinning Radio, Rebecca answered a bunch of questions from myself about preparing for a long trip. As many of you know, Rebecca and her family will be on Sabbatical from their work in Nunavut for 5 months. I wanted to understand more about how she prepared for the making she would be doing while away! Patreon Link here Here are the rough questions I ask...

Dear Spinning Circle, This month, Rebecca and I sat down to discuss a slightly different topic that we don't often explore, which is about our journey to intentional spinning. Rebecca asked some incredibly thoughtful questions to ground our discussion and I would love to hear some of your thoughts - please leave your comments here ! Link to Patreon post here The Journey of Intentional Spinning: 1....

Dear Spinning Circle, This month we are joined by Suzanne Reyes, a long-time member of our community who had the opportunity to work on a year-long project called The Importance of Every Day Creativity. We had a wonderful conversation about the depth and breadth of creativity in our every day lives. She has presented this to faculty, students and now shared her story here! Enjoy! More is available...

Dear Spinning Circle, Another month of Wool n' Spinning radio! I can't believe we are really into 2024 now! This is the second part (Part I here) of Rebecca and my conversation about our goals and thoughts about 2024. We recorded towards to the end of January so we have some initial reflections about the year, how it started and momentuum on projects. Patreon Post here Please take a moment to shar...

Dear Spinning Circle, Welcome 2024! I hope this finds you happy, healthy & excited for the new year. I know here in my home, we have had a very quiet week, watching a couple of movies, soccer games & attending a hockey game (very Canadian of us). The kids had never been to a hockey game before so that was fun sharing that joy with them! Today, Rebecca and I sat down to chat about the upcoming year...

Dear Spinning Circle, Today. On Wool n’ Spinning Radio. Rebecca and I sat down to reflect on the year, 2023. We started with a reflection on the highlights and standouts from the year. We talk about unexpected challenges, namely for Rachel throughout the year. Next, we talk about the community. There were some memorable interactions that really resonated with us as we interacted with you guys thro...

Dear Spinning Circle, Welcome to another episode of Wool n' Spinning Radio - I am so pleased to be able to produce these episodes with Rebecca (@rebbiejaye). Rebecca took the lead on this month's episode, which was really fun for me as I was able to sit back and participate in a different way than I normally do - what a pleasure! To learn more, please head to the original Patreon post here To help...

“Corespinning creates an amazing yarn that can replace a conventional spun yarn.“ -Crystal Hesser For full shownotes with photos, please visit here To share your spinning, we have a couple of places to share: Slack Channel: #texturedyarn Ravelry Group: CoreSpin Along here We have talked about corespinning in the community previously: 51 Yarns SpinAlong: Corespun, Coils & Supercoils Vlog 51 Yarns S...

Dear Spinning Circle, Today. On Wool n’ Spinning Radio. Rebecca and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Rebecca’s mom, Linda Jennings, the dyer and curator of Color Storms. She is based in Maryland, USA, and created a small dye studio in her home. Specializing in natural dyeing, Linda creates amazing gradient sets, plays with various dye stuffs that she is able to harvest locally, while also u...

Dear Spinning Circle, Today. On Wool n' Spinning Radio. Crystal Hesser is a well-known face around Wool n' Spinning but there are some who haven't had the absolute pleasure in meeting her, so I wanted to spend some time today introducing her to you. Throughout Tour de Fleece, she has been posting daily photos of her yarns as she spins them on her wheel, supported spindles and shares her ideas alon...

Today. On Wool n’ Spinning Radio. Rebecca and I sit down to check in with one another as the half-way point of our Year of Colour is reached. We discuss how the two tracks, namely Spinning Purls and The Wool Circle, has been to facilitate, as well as our own growth in our understanding of colour. We start to talk about Rebecca’s Deyapalooza that is coming this summer and even into next year.  I’ve...

Dear Spinning Circle, Today, on Wool n' Spinning Radio, Rebecca & Rachel sit down to further explore our individual and ever-evolving clothing philosophies. Exploring Clothing Philosophies (Part I) here Rebecca and I started off by picking up where we left off in Part I of our conversation with Rebecca sharing what’s changed with her daily clothing evolution. For images of Rachel's clothing that s...

Dear Spinning Circle, Thank you for joining us in another episode of Wool n' Spinning Radio. I welcome onto the show today, Ahn Wilson, who is two spirit Atikamekw and French on her mother's side and German on her father's side. Ahn is the visionary behind a very ambitious project, The Loving Blanket Project, to commemorate and share the collective weight of grief that all people experience as mor...

Today. On Wool n’ Spinning Radio. Rebecca and I sat down to begin discussing our respective clothing philosophies. If you haven’t heard of clothing philosophies before, it is characterized as a way of expressing an inner truth or belief about an idea, oneself or the world through the medium of clothing. Some believe that all aspects of a garment can speak to a person’s personal philosophy about th...

Dear Spinning Circle, Find the episode notes and more about Wool n' Spinning here It's the 1st of the month, so it's time for another amazing episode of Wool n' Spinning Radio! This month, Rebecca and I had the immense pleasure of welcoming Tazhiana Gordon of the Stitches & Starlight podcast on YouTube (here). Tazhi is an active and vibrant member of the Wool n' Spinning Community. It was my pleas...

Dear Spinning Circle, Thank you for joining us here on this episode of Wool n' Spinning Radio with Rachel's mom, Janet Smith. Mom talks about her art education, quilting and art journalling, as well as getting into a discussion about pigments, saturation and value, and more! Thank you again to my mom, Janet, for joining us on the show! It was a pleasure to host you! The audio podcast is available...

We're starting fresh with Episode 89 and will be posting the back catalogue of episodes over time.  Rebecca and I kick-start this episode with a look back at 2022 and hear from Rebecca about her year-long Sock Colour SAL that she hosted in the community. I really like the idea of having a smaller ALONG with everyone, based on a specific learning outcome around socks - about a yarn structure, colou...

Dear Spinning Circle, This month, we are joined by Emily Grace, who lives on a very small island off the coast of British Columbia. She is a long-time member of the Wool n' Spinning Community and I hope you enjoy getting to know her a bit better! Direct YouTube Link To find Emily Grace, you can find her on Slack as @Emily Grace Patreon Link here Thank you again to Emily Grace for coming onto the s...

Dear Spinning Circle, This month, we are joined by Rachel Richardson, who is a long-time member of Wool n' Spinning -- she's been an endless cheerleader for me and I hope you gain some knowledge, inspiration and maybe even develop your own daily practice from watching/listening to Rachel! Direct YouTube Link . Find Rachel on Instragram @raerich and on the Slack channel as @Rachel Richardson Please...

Dear Spinning Circle, This month we are joined by Brittany Vogt of Crux Fibres! I'm so excited to have Brittany on the show because she's a super active member of the Slack channel and if you've have a chance to follow her on Instagram, her feed is beautiful with amazing stories as well! YouTube Link here Follow Brittany on social media: Crux Fibres on Instragram: @cruxfibres YouTube channel: Crux...

Dear Spinning Circle, In my mind this month I had rendered this and posted it, looking forward to everyone in the community 'meeting' Jenny and hearing her story, then wondering why those who have EARLY ACCESS weren't saying anything like they normally do ... Go check Patreon ... Oh. I forgot to actually schedule the post! But here it is now! Join me in welcoming this month to Wool n' Spinning Rad...

Dear Spinning Circle, This month, Dionne Carter from our very own community joined me to chat about her colour inspiration, how she got started spinning and more! Thank you to Dionne for taking the time to let us see a glimpse into her inspiration, thought process and amazing ability to combine colours.  Direct YouTube link here .  You can find Dionne on the Slack channel as @Dionne(Deej)  For mor...

Dear Spinning Circle, I can't believe we are here already, again! Again! Another year and another Breed & Colour Study! This one is really exciting - it will last ALL YEAR. We will be studying Radnor and the colours are as you see them below! Super exciting. Thank you once again to Katrina for dyeing, organizing and working so incredibly hard to make these happen for us. I know we've talked about...

Dear Spinning Circle, Direct YouTube link here . I am so pleased to welcome another Wool n' Spinning Community member onto the show this month: Amanda Buckley. Many of you know Amanda from both the School of SweetGeorgia and Slack community but it's wonderful to welcome her here! To find more of Amanda, here are some places to look her up: Slack: @amanda Instagram & Ravelry: @mandythephilomath Ple...

Dear Spinning Circle, This month, we are joined by community member, Ange, who some of you will know from our Maker Mornings. Ange has been a part of our community for a long while and has been incredibly supportive of those spindle spinning in our #spindlespunsummer along that we've been finishing up!  Watch on YouTube here In answer to some questions she'd fielded on her YouTube channel, she mad...