Mijn Wolden
Mijn Wolden
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Let's process some raw wool together! (Skirting, scouring and carding of Suffolk sheep wool)
Hello friends! Apparently there is a demand for a video where I just walk you through all the steps I take to process my raw sheep fleeces into spinnable wool. And since I have been asked for a wool spinning demonstration, why not listen to that demand of yours? So exactly, in this video I'll show you how I go from dirty, greasy wool right off the sheep to very flooffy, clean and spinnable carded batts. Now, this is not a tutorial, I'm just walking you through all the steps that I take in my process. You may wish to follow it, but there are probably a dozen other better ways of doing it.
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Celebrating Distaff Day Pt 2: Unboxing Rare Breeds and spinning American Tunis Wool
Просмотров 3,2 тыс.14 часов назад
Hello friends! If you remember: I celebrated Distaff Days with my patrons by sending one another floof gifts. Yes, we send wool and spinning fiber all over the globe. And after a month of waiting, my package has arrived as well. So, let's open my gift from my secret saint distaff (and oooff the goodies were so good. Rare breeds! Wool Roserary!), load up my distaff again and start spindle spinni...
Designing our own Granny Square Crochet Vest (Vintage Inspired Slipover)
Просмотров 4,6 тыс.День назад
Hello friends! While not a tutorial, this video can be seen as a template on how to (easily) make a granny square vest for yourself. Just pick a granny square that you like, make a paper template to figure out how many squares you need, and off you go crocheting! Or if you're following along with me: also a bit of knitting, because I personally prefer the look of knitted ribbing. So yes, in thi...
Let's knit a pair of Lord of the Rings fingerless gloves with handspun yarn
Просмотров 5 тыс.14 дней назад
Hello friends! You were all very opinionated when it came to the next project with my spindle spun polwarth yarn: fingerless mitts it is! And not just any fingerless mittens, no with these mitts I apply for the position of Knight of Rohan. For the pattern we will be using is one from Tanis Gray's Fellowship of the Knits. I am a big Lord of the Rings nerd, and people are allowed to know that. So...
Rosemary dyeing experiments: Does it matter if you dye unspun wool or yarn?
Просмотров 5 тыс.21 день назад
The first 500 people to use my link skl.sh/mijnwolden01251 will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare premium! Hello friends! I had the privilege to go on holiday to Spain in november. The mountains there are lined with rosemary. A fragrant herb, but also a great dyesource. So in today's shenanigans we're going to dye with the rosemary! However, that's not the only focus of my experiments: I a...
Celebrating Distaff Day: carding and blending wool, sending packages, and spinning w/ a ring distaff
Просмотров 4,7 тыс.Месяц назад
Hello friends! January 7th is Distaff Day, where after the holidays of Christmas, we're allowed to start spinning again (not that I ever stop spinning). To celebrate the holiest of days Saint Distaff Day my Patrons and I organised a little Saint Distaff Day Secret Santa Gift Exchange. In this video I will prepare the floofs for whomever gets my gift. Sadly, I did not receive my gift of floofs, ...
Carding and spinning ALL the wool I dyed in 2024 into the Ultimate Chaos Yarn
Просмотров 6 тыс.Месяц назад
Hello friends! The past year I have dyed so many floofs of sheep's wool with natural dyeing methods. And I have yet to spin them all into yarn. To celebrate the start of a new year, here's the plan: let's put all of those dyed bits of wool onto my drumcarder, let's card all of it into a chaos batt, and then spin it into chaos yarn. That seems like a fitting end to 2024/start to 2025. In this ba...
Let's discover Hooks and Needles monthly knitting and crochet subscription boxes
Просмотров 15 тыс.Месяц назад
Hello friends! Let's start by thanking Hooks & Needles to sponsor this extra long Christmas video! If you want a convenient crafting subscription box delivered right at your doorstep every month, you can use the code Jente20 to get 20% off your first box, or you can use this link to get there directly: hooksneedles.com/discount/Jente20?redirect=/products/hooks-needles-subscription-box&MijnWolde...
Blending and spinning handdyed wool to match (or, well, dupe) storebought fiber
Просмотров 6 тыс.Месяц назад
Hello friends! I knit TinCan Knits Antler Toque for myself a couple of months ago, and ever since my mom has been pointing out how much she likes that hat. And with her birthday coming up: let's knit her one of these cute cabled hats as well. However, here's the challenge: I run out of yarn after only knitting the ribbing. And the store where I bought the fiber no longer sells this braid of com...
Let's turn Money into a Mordant: Experimenting with Dyeing with Copper
Просмотров 4 тыс.Месяц назад
The first 500 people to use my link skl.sh/mijnwolden12241 will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare premium! Hello friends! The Belgian government has pressed it inhabitants to spend their small coins more. I have a better idea however. Let's turn some 1, 2 and 5 eurocents into a mordant or dyestuff. Or at least that's what I'll be attempting to do in this video. I'm not sure if I'll succeed...
Let's knit a Vintage 1940s Sweater but make it DINOSAURS
Просмотров 4,4 тыс.2 месяца назад
Hello friends! It is time for some more vintage knitting shenanigans. And shenanigans it will be. I am basing this sweater knitting project on Bestway A 1916 4d, "Blue bird jumper", but let's make the birds more vintage. More vintage birds? Yes, dinosaurs of course! I'm swapping the swallow motif of one of my favourite dinosaur: the parasaurolophus. Oh btw, this is entirely knit in handspun yar...
This knitting project travelled across Europe: knit the Starnkeeker Vest with me
Просмотров 4 тыс.2 месяца назад
Hello friends! My favourite vacation souvenir is yarn. And I'm going on a roadtrip. So while we're at it, why not knit something with the yarn from a previous trip, so that we clear some of our stash to eventually also buy more yarn on this trip? We shall be knitting the Starnkeeker by Katie Davies Design, a fingering weight fair isle slipover in four colours, and let's make it the cosiest and ...
D20 Dice decides How to Knit a Sophie Scarf: adding Chaos to a Cult Classic
Просмотров 6 тыс.2 месяца назад
Hello friends! I still had some leftover handspun polwarth yarn, and I don't have enough knitting projects it seems. So let's make ourselves a little autumn scarf with that yarn! My first plan was the Turtle Dove scarf by Sari Nordlund, but that wasn't the best choice for the wool, so we shifted gears and went with the cult classic Sophie Scarf from PetiteKnit. Yep, you guessed it. We are once ...
Let's spin some zwartbles wool into yarn to commemorate a dearly beloved pet sheep
Просмотров 3,9 тыс.2 месяца назад
Hello friends! Do you remember the zwartbles I spun during Tour de Fleece 2023? One of those sheep, Vic, has sadly passed away this year. He succumbed to the bluetongue virus that has made many victims in Belgium and the Netherlands. Vic was a pet sheep, so a beloved pet for his owners. Today I am spinning some of his wool into yarn as a keepsake for his owner, some skeins of yarn to remember h...
Spin with me: Let's Spin a Corriedale Combospin
Просмотров 7 тыс.3 месяца назад
Hello friends! In the beginning of October I went to a fiber festival and picked up two beautiful handdyed combed top braids to spin. They were dyed by the indie dyer Speckles in the Forest. And with my albeit limited knowledge of colourtheory, I immediately saw that these two braids would be absolutely perfect for a combospin. And that is actually all that this video entails: we are going to s...
Knitting a Halloween birthday gift: Deathflake Mittens
Просмотров 3,6 тыс.3 месяца назад
Knitting a Halloween birthday gift: Deathflake Mittens
100 days to Halloween: Knitting Handspun Witchy Socks (pt. 2)
Просмотров 4,8 тыс.3 месяца назад
100 days to Halloween: Knitting Handspun Witchy Socks (pt. 2)
100 days to Halloween: Support Spindle Spinning Sock Yarn (pt. 1)
Просмотров 6 тыс.3 месяца назад
100 days to Halloween: Support Spindle Spinning Sock Yarn (pt. 1)
Let's knit our own merch! (Chaos Goblin version of PetiteKnit's Holiday Slipover)
Просмотров 3,7 тыс.3 месяца назад
Let's knit our own merch! (Chaos Goblin version of PetiteKnit's Holiday Slipover)
Experimenting with natural dye: Will Four o'clock flower (mirabilis jalapa) seeds dye?
Просмотров 3,2 тыс.4 месяца назад
Experimenting with natural dye: Will Four o'clock flower (mirabilis jalapa) seeds dye?
Blending sari silk and wool: spinning an experimental cabled yarn
Просмотров 4,8 тыс.4 месяца назад
Blending sari silk and wool: spinning an experimental cabled yarn
Knitting with Linen: a Vintage 1980s Lace Blouse (and Frustrations)
Просмотров 3,8 тыс.4 месяца назад
Knitting with Linen: a Vintage 1980s Lace Blouse (and Frustrations)
A Flax to Linen Community Project: Welcome in Vlasselt
Просмотров 3 тыс.4 месяца назад
A Flax to Linen Community Project: Welcome in Vlasselt
Mail from India: Ladakhi spindles, Yak Fiber and spinning stories (ft. @woolaroundtheworld )
Просмотров 3,8 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Mail from India: Ladakhi spindles, Yak Fiber and spinning stories (ft. @woolaroundtheworld )
Handspun Heaven: Knitting a Sweater with my Blue Texel Yarn
Просмотров 4,9 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Handspun Heaven: Knitting a Sweater with my Blue Texel Yarn
Starting with Natural Dyeing: How to find Easy and Foolproof Dyeplants in the wild?
Просмотров 3,6 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Starting with Natural Dyeing: How to find Easy and Foolproof Dyeplants in the wild?
I found Mohair at the Thrifstore: let's spin thrifted fiber
Просмотров 3,7 тыс.5 месяцев назад
I found Mohair at the Thrifstore: let's spin thrifted fiber
This is your Sign to Knit something that makes you HAPPY (+ Eastern Uncrossed Knitting)
Просмотров 6 тыс.6 месяцев назад
This is your Sign to Knit something that makes you HAPPY ( Eastern Uncrossed Knitting)
Can you Dye Speckled Yarn with Solar Dyeing with Only Natural Materials?
Просмотров 4 тыс.6 месяцев назад
Can you Dye Speckled Yarn with Solar Dyeing with Only Natural Materials?
Tour de Fleece: Finishing my Handspun Yarns, Totals and Statistics
Просмотров 3,1 тыс.6 месяцев назад
Tour de Fleece: Finishing my Handspun Yarns, Totals and Statistics