Yarnspinners Tales's Podcast

YST Episode 189 Spinning cotton and picking wool

In this podcast, I talk about what I learned about cotton and spinning cotton in a class at SAFF this year.  I also had the chance to do some fiber and fleece shopping, a

YST Episode 188 How old is that fiber

A short podcast talking about the last five skeins in the yarn wash up, and my recent spinning. I mention fiber from a Phatt fiber box, they can be found here. The ot

YST Episode 187 The big wash up

After I spin a skein of yarn, it needs to be washed.  I put this off until I have enough to take several days of washing.   I also talk about doing a burn test on fiber

YST Episode 186

This podcast is for the week of Sept 5th, and talks about prepping cormo fiber for the dyepot, and spinning a merino silk bamboo blend. I also refer to two past podcast

YST Episode 185 A Yin Yang fleece

A catch up podcast talking about Stashdash, the state fair and a black and white Shetland fleece. Stashdash is a challenge created by the podcast TheKnitGirlls. The y

July 26 2021 An Open ended Absence

Just a brief note to fill those of you that haven't heard of my Mom's illness.  I have to stop the podcast for awhile, as I spend time with her.

YST Episode 184 07/21/21

A tiny but perfectly acceptable spinning wheel is being 3D printed by Dreaming Robots.   I have the smaller version called the Nano and I talk about it in this podcast.

YST Episode 183 07/19/21

The podcasts will have a new format starting with this one.  The good news is they will be more frequent, and the maybe or maybe not bad news is they will be shorter. F

YST A Brief Hello

Podcasting for me is on the back burner at this time.  I plan to return with the Tour de Fleece in July 2021.

YST Episode 182 Welsh Sheep breeds review

Last podcast of 2020 and maybe the last breed reviews I do for awhile.  It is time to move forward into other areas of spinning and the new year seems a good time to star

YST Correction on Livestream Archiving information

In the last two podcasts, for some reason I said the livestreams were archived on Facebook, which is not true.  I didn't even catch it as I was editing.  Instead of the t

YST Episode 181 Hebridean sheep breed review

The Hebridean sheep have long dual coated wool in various colors.  I used my study to not only spin the fiber but to show on live stream how to separate the two coats.

YST Episode 180 Lonk Sheep Breed Review

First up in the podcast is a report on my study of the Lonk Sheep Breed.  It's short so I went on to talk about all the spinning projects I have currently going that invo

YST Episode 179 Tour de Fleece 2020

In this unusual year, even the Tour de Fleece was affected.  The Tour de France did not run in July as usual, but was celebrated on Ravelry anyway.  Then when the Tour di

YST Episode 178 Coopworth Breed review

The Coopworth Sheep breed is a relatively new breed, as sheep breeds go.  The sample I worked with was from a lamb and contained long lovely locks.  I cover in this podca

YST Episode 177 Ryeland sheep breed review

A new computer meant a whole new learning curve on new software to record and edit podcasts.  I think I finally have a set up I am happy to release. In this short podca

YST is going live stream on Twitch TV

So much behind that title!  I am not stopping the audio podcast.  I am moving forward on the wave of technology and taking my concept for YST with it.  I have set up a ch

YST Episode 176 White face Woodland breed review

The breed White Face Woodland was studied by the 52 weeks of sheep group on week 14.  Unfortunately, I was unable to obtain a sample of this fiber yet.  But this breed is

YST Episode 175 Shropshire Breed review

This breed review, second of the three I did at the same time, covers the Shropshire breed, another Down breed from the British Isles.   I had two sources of the fiber.

YST Episode 174 Oxford Down breed review

For this month, I am releasing three shorter podcasts, all reviewing sheep breeds.  These do not ave to be listened to in any specific order, it was just how I recorded a