The Sheepspot Podcast offers quick, actionable tips that you can use right away to make better yarn, use that yarn in ways that delight you, or otherwise enrich your practice as a fiber artist by deepening your knowledge of spinning techniques or materials.
Episodes
Friday Dec 29, 2017
Friday Dec 29, 2017
In this episode of the podcast, Sasha talks about whether our creative projects find us, or we find them.
Mentioned in this episode:
How to Survive the End of the World, "Let the Ancestors Speak"
Elizabeth Gilbert's TED Talk; the part of I mention in the podcast is at 10:11.
Friday Dec 22, 2017
Friday Dec 22, 2017
In this episode of the podcast, Sasha talks about woolen and worsted yarns, how to spin yarns in either style, and when you might choose a woolen yarn over a worsted one and vice versa.
Additional resources on the woolen-worsted continuum:
Jacey Boggs Faulkner's Craftsy class, From Woolen to Worsted
Judith MacKenzie's dvd/video download, The Spinner's Toolbox
Abby Franquemont's video download, Drafting: The Long and the Short of It
Download your free worsted/woolen cheat sheet at http://www.sheepspot.com/podcast/episode4.
Friday Dec 15, 2017
Thursday Dec 14, 2017
Thursday Dec 14, 2017
Mentioned in this episode:
The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook, by Deborah Robson and Carol Ekarius
The Spinner's Book of Fleece, by Beth Smith
To download your wool types cheat sheet, go to www.sheepspot.com/podcast/episode2.
Wednesday Dec 13, 2017