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
Feb 16, 2018
Feb 9, 2018
Feb 9, 2018
14 min
Feb 2, 2018
Feb 2, 2018
26 min
Mentioned in this episode:
Spinning Consistent Singles Workshop at The Sheepspot Studio
Jan 26, 2018
Jan 26, 2018
10 min
In this episode of the podcast, Sasha talks about one of her favorite wools, Rambouillet.
Mentioned in this episode:
Jan 19, 2018
Jan 19, 2018
26 min
Jan 12, 2018
Jan 12, 2018
16 min
In this episode of the podcast, Sasha talks about what's involved in getting a fiber club shipment ready to go out to members.
Mentioned in this episode:
Jan 5, 2018
Jan 5, 2018
35 min
Mentioned in this episode:
Judith Mackenzie, Three Bags Full
Kate Larson, The Practical Spinner’s Guide: Wool
Beth Smith, The Spinner’s Book of Fleece
Blue Mountain Handcrafts two pitch hand combs
Esther Rogers, Fiber Preparation for Spinning
Beth Smith’s handcarding video for Schacht
Dec 29, 2017
Dec 29, 2017
13 min
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.
Dec 22, 2017
Dec 22, 2017
20 min
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.
Dec 15, 2017