This month's Wool n' Spinning Radio is a conversation between Katrina , Becca and myself about the most recent breed and colour study that we have been engaging in as a community. This study comes to an end this month - I hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have! This study was meant to push people outside of their comfort zones as much as possible. While the colours may not have appealed to you, the goal of this study was to step outside of our individual 'typical' colour palates to create som...
Sep 02, 2018•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 26
Welcome to Wool n' Spinning Radio this month! Katrina and I continue our conversation from last month but shift to creative-life balance and what that means to both of us. We chat about trying to be more active, getting in more steps and our sedentary life when we are creative. I hope you enjoy our conversation! Remember to enter below for the giveaway this month! Happy Spinning, Rachel
Aug 01, 2018•52 min•Ep. 25
Welcome to Wool n' Spinning Radio this month! I was so pleased to have Katrina over for coffee one morning and chat everything fibre, colour studies, work-life balance, creativity and much more. This is Part I of our conversation and the second part will be released in August. Some of the things we chatted about were in relation to the Breed & Colour Study. If you are looking for something in particular, please comment below. Otherwise, here are a few of the things we mentioned: - Katrina's ...
Jul 09, 2018•29 min•Ep. 24
Thank you for joining me this month. I'm super excited to share this month's guest with you! Let me introduce you to my friend, Laurie, who moved from near me and now resides in the Interior of BC with sheep, goats and dogs. She is a powerhouse of information and I hope you enjoy our conversation! One word about the quality of the conversation. I try to keep the telephone or Skype quality of my conversations as high as possible but Laurie is quite isolated on her farm! We recorded the conversati...
Jun 01, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 23
Thank you to Eve and Rebecca for joining me this month in our bonus episode! We had another word prompt episode and I hope you enjoy our conversation. We get into some more personal things towards the end of the show about Charlie, his prognosis and treatment options, as well as some other topics. I hope you enjoy the more personal snap shot of some of our community member's lives, as well as my own. Happy Spinning, Rachel, Eve & Rebecca
May 19, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 22
We are welcoming Heidi of Vegan Yarn back onto the show to delve into our current theme even more: Plant-based fibres. Vegan Yarn official website here . Vegan Yarn Ravelry group here . Previous episode here . We chatted about a few different things: plant-based fibres and approaches to spinning them, micro-plastics (oil-based plastics) and living plant-based. Heidi comes to these topics in an open and non-judgmental way and I hope you find her approach gentle. If you have any questions or would...
May 01, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 21
Welcome to the next installment of Breed & Colour Studies! I'm really excited about this study because we will be back to carded prep with a twist! Start thinking about your photos you would like to see in a colourway and get ready to post them in the Ravelry thread, open now! Any questions, please comment below or in the Ravelry thread. Until next time -- keep spinning! https://www.patreon.com/posts/17496327
Apr 01, 2018•29 min•Ep. 20
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Also known as my dad's birthday! I hope you are drinking green beer somewhere and I had to celebrate by including a bonus episode of something this month ... weeeellll .... Welcome to a bonus episode of Wool n' Spinning Radio this month! I'm so pleased to be able to introduce you to more community members this month: Candi and Mairi. Mairi made an appearance on the show back in January but this time, it's just the three of us so you get to know her a little better! This ...
Mar 18, 2018•45 min•Ep. 19
Welcome to this month's Wool n' Spinning Radio! Thank you for joining me! I'm really excited to share this month's episode with you because it was recorded just a couple of weeks ago after Becca and I finished all of our spinning for the study. https://www.patreon.com/posts/wool-n-spinning-17020143 If you are a long time Patron subscriber, you will be familiar with how these studies happen but for those who are new, I thought I would briefly recap. In late September, Katrina and I announced our ...
Mar 01, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 18
Welcome to Wool n' Spinning Radio's Bonus Episode for February! I hope you enjoy my conversation with Becca and Rebecca, both from our Wool n' Spinning Community. We were all in a very reflective, thoughtful mood and the conversation went deep and contemplative very quickly. I hope you enjoy listening! Patreon Link here Until next time, Happy Spinning! Rachel
Feb 17, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 17
Welcome to Wool n’ Spinning Radio. Thank you for joining me this month! I am so excited to welcome Felicia Lo onto the show this month. She is one of my mentors, which she may not know, and the reason is because of her generosity, kindness and openness about her life, SweetGeorgia Yarns, and being a mom. Whenever we chat, we always get carried away and go off on many tangents because we have a lot in common besides fibre. We’ve transitioned to being moms at similar times in our lives and often b...
Feb 01, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 16
Happy New Year! I hope the holidays have been relaxing and kind to you. I have been travelling but am looking forward to settling back into a routine. There's something very comforting about the slog of the winter - we often get out of the city a few times to snowshoe and this year, we are going to try James on skis. We will see how it goes! This month's show was recorded in a cabin in the woods - there's background noise from the ocean, wood-burning stove/fireplace and our spinning wheels. I ho...
Jan 01, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 15
This month on Wool n' Spinning Radio, I am so pleased to introduce to you Heidi of Vegan Yarn. She is a powerhouse of knowledge and skill with lots to share about what she does. I asked her specifically about spinning cotton and other cellulose- and plant-based fibres. She even gave pointers around finishing plant-based yarns for us! I hope you enjoy hearing about her background, love of dyeing and spinning techniques as much as I enjoyed chatting with her. https://www.patreon.com/posts/15637006...
Dec 01, 2017•51 min•Ep. 14
Welcome to Wool n' Spinning Radio November's edition! I'm really excited to share this month's episode with you - I had a conversation over Skype with Becca (bethy40 & twistanddraw) and Katrina (CraftyJaks)! I gave them a one-word prompt to start the conversation and we were off! Please note, we had a little bit of technical difficulty at the beginning but it was all sorted out and we had a great chat! Thanks for baring with the beginning - it's a bit choppy. If you are interested in being a...
Nov 01, 2017•49 min•Ep. 13
This month, Katrina and I get on Skype together and chat about the project we've been working on for the past year. We decided to reveal the cover page of the book this month for those who subscribe* to The Thoughtful Spinner . *Remember that if you help support The Thoughtful Spinner, your name will be featured in the book as a Thank You for Supporting this project! We had some technical difficulties at the beginning but I hope you can stick with us and hear what we've been working on! We are s...
Oct 01, 2017•43 min•Ep. 12
This month, I was able to chat with my friend, Margaret Sampson. She lives on a small-ish farm on the Langley/Surrey border with a bunch of Suffolk sheep and a llama. Her dog Katie joined us for the interview and you may hear her in the background. It was a pleasure to chat with her and as I say in the episode, I have some of her Suffolk roving, which is awesome for socks, and would be more than willing to send some of it out to you with base costs (shipping, milling costs) covered! Happy Spinni...
Sep 01, 2017•38 min•Ep. 11
The time of year that we are all consumed with Tour de Fleece has come and gone ... it’s a bit sad, really that these events that unite the spinning community have to end! Seeing all the inspirational photos on Instagram will be missed – although, I have noticed there are more and more spinners out there, sharing their photos and chatting! Regardless, they have to end at some point because otherwise, there’s be no prizes to award! This week, along with our regularly scheduled Wool n’ Spinning Ra...
Aug 11, 2017•23 min•Ep. 10
This month, I chat with my friend Ann, who is local to me. She lives on a small farm with quite a few dogs, cats and sheep! She has quite the collection of wheels and she shared a lot about her CPW in particular. There was a thunder and lightning storm during the interview and there is quite a lot of movement - it's real life! Happy Spinning!
Aug 01, 2017•58 min•Ep. 9
This month, I have the immense pleasure of sharing my conversation with Jillian Moreno. For those who aren't familiar with her work, Jillian is the editor behind KnittySpin and the author of the amazing book, Yarnitecture. She is an incredible well of information and forthcoming about her love of spinning. I hope you enjoy our conversation this month! Happy Spinning!
Jul 03, 2017•46 min•Ep. 8
Hi Everyone! Welcome to a Bonus episode of Wool n’ Spinning Radio. This podcast is brought to you on Patreon for our subscribers and is a monthly installment that provides an RSS feed to listeners for their favourite app to listen each month. This month, I am releasing an episode for everyone because I chatted with Kim of Ewethful Fibre Farm and Mill . Kim has plans to start a fibre club in July, about a month from now, and I hope you have a chance to check it out. Kim is warm, forthcoming and p...
Jun 09, 2017•50 min•Ep. 7
This month, I chatted with Natalie Redding of Namaste Farms . She is a firecracker of information and incredibly forthcoming about what she does, her knowledge and insights, and her sheep. I want to say a special thank you for her time - it was a pleasure to chat with her.
Jun 01, 2017•44 min•Ep. 6
This month, I had the chance to chat with Becca, who many of you know from Slack and the Ravelry group. She is a prolific spinner, incredible cheerleader for many of us taking on a large project and kind. It was incredibly fun to chat with her. Thank you to Becca for taking the time to chat with me - I hope to have her on the show again in the future. Happy Spinning!
May 05, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 5
Thank you for tuning in this month to Wool n' Spinning Radio! This month, I am so pleased to have the opportunity to chat with my friend and Wool n' Spinning community member, Nina La Fountaine. Nina lives in Santiago, Chile, and designs under the name Fuzzy Love Knots. She chats about spinning, local wool and living in Chile. I hope you enjoy listening - we had a blast chatting to each other. For more about Bastidor, please contact Nina directly as I wasn't able to find the appropriate link for...
Apr 01, 2017•48 min•Ep. 4
Thank you for listening in this month! I am continuing our theme this month about combo spinning since the craze is all over the internet - particularly Instagram. I loop Katrina in for her thoughts on the subject since she has done quite a number of combo spins now. And I use a question from a lovely Patreon subscriber, Rebecca, to anchor the conversation. Until next month!
Mar 04, 2017•36 min•Ep. 3
Welcome to Wool n' Spinning Radio's Bonus Episode for February! I hope you enjoy my conversation with Becca and Rebecca, both from our Wool n' Spinning Community. We were all in a very reflective, thoughtful mood and the conversation went deep and contemplative very quickly. I hope you enjoy listening! https://www.patreon.com/posts/wool-n-spinning-15725779 Until next time, Happy Spinning! Rachel
Feb 17, 2017•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 17
Thank you for tuning in to the first full episode of Wool n' Spinning Radio, a monthly radio show for our Patreon subscribers of the Wool n' Spinning videocast. I truly appreciate your support and wanted to do something in the podcasting realm that would help me to explore something new. The show will be released on or around the 7th of each month. This month marks a new year and finally the end of my lack of crafting mojo, which I reflect upon later in the show. First, though, I have a chat wit...
Jan 14, 2017•50 min•Ep. 2
I'm really excited to annouce something I have been contemplating for a while that will be coming in January 2017. Have a listen for more! Happy New Years!
Dec 30, 2016•12 min•Ep. 1
