Category: The Story of Yarn

Screenshot from Leatherwood Creek Farm I’m excited to share the next yarn I’ve been learning about for my “From Pasture to Needle: The Story of a Yarn” series. This time we focused on the Tunis sheep breed and some Tunis 3-ply worsted from Leatherwood Creek Farm in Pulaski, Tennessee. Sherri, my co-host on the Geminate podcast, picked this one for…

I’m excited to share the next yarn I’ve been learning about for my “Story of Yarn” series. This time we focused on the Gulf Coast Native sheep breed and some worsted weight yarn from the Sand Hill Thicket homestead in northeastern Kansas. Sherri, my co-host on the Geminate podcast, picked this one for us to discuss next…

I’m excited to share the next yarn I’ve been learning about for my “From Pasture to Needle: The Story of a Yarn” series. This time I’m focusing on the DK/Sport weight Peace Fleece yarn. Spoiler alert – I love this yarn! Swatching this yarn for research was so much fun that I cast on a new…

For season 4 of the Geminate podcast, we are diving deeper into the story of yarn from our area and beyond! And we’re including a few field trips to local fiber-related locations. We took our first field trip in May to the Watkins Woolen Mill State Historic Site! The Watkins Woolen Mill historic site is part of Watkins…

I’m so excited to start sharing about some of the yarns I’ve been studying in my From Pasture to Needle: The Story of a Yarn series. The first yarn I decided to share is the Churro Yarn from Tierra Wools in Chama, New Mexico. Tierra Wools has a pretty great story. It began as a wool committee…

Recently I’ve found myself more and more interested in the backstory of my yarns. Where did it come from? How was it processed? Who cared for it along the way? I know that most of my yarn started either on the back of creatures grazing in a pasture or as a plant in a field.…