Jillian’s Spinning: Bitten By Bouclé

So, I’m driving down the road to the Ann Arbor Fiber Expo and a need hit me from out of the blue – bouclé.  I want to spin bouclé. Up until that moment I haven’t had fond or warm thoughts about bouclé, didn’t like how it looks, didn’t like the fiddly spinning. But that’s how things happen, at least to me, one minute – meh, one minute – I MUST.

I have spun bouclé in classes before when I didn’t care about it, with amazing teachers, Lynne Vogel, Jacey Boggs and Sarah Anderson. I dug out notes, looked at books and watched a couple of videos.  I spun some bouclé.

Yarn fixins

BFL/silk from Happy Fuzzy Yarn, the most amazing kid mohair/silk from Hilltop Cloud and some sparkly blue thread for a binder.

First round

Why was it so much easier when I didn’t care about it? I don’t remember it being hard to get the loops to loop. I do have a few loops, but more twists than loops.

Finished yarn

When I put the binder on, more loops popped, but I’m going to keep practicing looping the loops, it’s fun and now I really like how it looks.

Maybe it’s Spring Fever.

 

 

SpinDoctor Lives!

Remember the SpinDoctor podcast that I was a part for awhile with Sasha Torres? Sasha has decided to make it into a newsletter! You can sign up for it’s spinny goodness here. The newsletter will be done by just Sasha, with feline assistance from Zora.

She is also starting a hand dyed yarn company that features breed specific North American wool, from fleeces handpicked (and dyed) by Sasha.