Tag: cone yarn
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The EEW Cone Winder- Unboxing and Initial Thoughts
If you’re familiar with the Electric Eel Spinning Wheel, you might know that Maurice Ribble of Dreaming Robots, the mind behind the magic, recently released an electric cone winder! I backed the project on Kickstarter in 2022. I have only backed three or four Kickstarter projects, but I have to…
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CONE Yarn Review: Brown Sheep Nature Spun Sport
It’s fall, y’all! …well, it is autumn according to the calendar. Sweater weather hasn’t fully arrived yet in Northeast Oklahoma, but I am here for you with a seasonally appropriate review of Brown Sheep Nature Spun Sport 100% wool yarn ON CONES! Before we get into my knitting experience, here…
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Organizing My Studio: The Main Room
We moved to our new place last year, and I have a studio! Yay! It’s a small building around 400 square feet just steps from our garage. It’s been a dream come true having a large, dedicated machine knitting space and not just a small craft room, but it’s a…
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Finding Cone Yarn
Knitting machines can use a range of yarn from all kinds of put-ups like we saw in my last post, but the easiest and best put-up for machine knitting is cone yarn. Cones don’t need extra preparation before use, have more yardage in general, and often feature unique textures or…
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