Arachne

@weaverarachne

#Lesbian. #Jew. Academic refugee. #Spin & #Weave. Former #hospice nurse, now case manager for a #Tribal health center. Pining for the PNW On stolen land, no one is illegal

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Arachne@weaverarachne· 18d

Tour de Fleece day 20. Plyed the second lotus fiber fractal spin. Enjoying this woman's dying so much I think I'll just go ahead and spin it up. Really too bad she seems to have shuttered her Etsy shop and has no other web presence.

Colorful yarn on a skein winder some thread barber pole, some some solid green, gold, red, and purple.

Arachne@weaverarachne· 19d

Another week of spotty Tour de Fleece spinning, but I have spun the singles for this second hank of lotus fiber from Pan's Garden. Doing a fractal spin that I will ply today. Not a lot of time left, so I might just play with the plant samples today - at a tribal festival tomorrow.

two bobbins, on black, on light blue, laying on a green cloth with Celtic knot work. The left/black bobbin has areas of purple, red, gold and green the right/blue bobbin has a small area of purple, thed, God, green, gold, green in a very shiny yarn about 32 wpi

Arachne@weaverarachne· 25d

Tour de Fleece day 14 Finally had time to do some spinning. Worked on the other hank of Lotus from Pam's Garden. Got most of the first bobbin done - another fractal spin. Maybe try one of my plant fiber sample pack for challenge day later

View from above of a black plastic bobbin on a Majacraft Suzie. Sections of Kelly green, purple, Chinese red, and gold. A flower pattern carpet is under the wheel.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jul 13

So I had to switch to my Clemes and Clemes. I did quick and dirty chain ply so it's funky as heck. My new Majacraft Woolee Winder came yesterday as well, and I used it to ply the lotus fiber today. Said good-buy to the Ashford knowing it was in good hands.

Top down view of a Majacraft Suzie partially full bobbin of plyed lotus fiber yarn showing barberpole brown with blues and Greens. Visible are the two bobbins that were plied off of, the back of the drive wheel and one treadle.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jul 13

Tour de Fleece days 8 & 9. - Day 8 I finished spinning the second half of the lotus fiber and let it rest. I pulled out my Ashford wheel and accessories as someone was coming to buy it. Two bobbins still full with probably 15 y.o. yarn, quickly chain plyed up. Except my Kromski's drive band broke 1/

Close up of the built-in lazy Kate on a Majacraft Suzie. The bobbin on the Right is clear plastic shows mostly brown with a little bit of two different blues. The bobbin on the right is black plastic and has sections of bright green, bright blue, other blues, greens and browns. You can see the wheels treadles and a multi-sided knob. All on a floral rug

A Kromski Sonota spinning wheel, sans drive band, from the side. On the bobbin is some very chunky denim-colored slightly variegated yarn. A blue-dominant rag rug is on a tile floor, with weaving tools and other oddments in the background.

A Clemes and Clemes spinning wheel from the side and above, with a full bobbin of very chonky white wool yarn on the bobbin. The Bloor is tile, and a bit of the Kromski wheels is visible in the background.

A line up of all my wheels, from left (oldest) to right (newest). Clemes and Clemes that was left at my house by a Ren Faire acquaintance, broken until I saw the Clemes folks at Convergence and got it repaired. Build 1972. Ashford Traditional, gifted to me, and never a great friend, happy to find it a new home. Kromski Sonata (folding wheel) bought used. Majacraft Suzie, purchased new a few years ago, and my Majacraft Little Gem, less than a year old.

In the background are two looms and shelves full of yarn and fiber.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jul 7

Tour de Fleece day 3 was a fibery day! Spun ~1/3 of the second bobbin of lotus fiber - very short runs (split approx. 1 oz into 5 not-even bits) so the ply should be interesting. Then my Tour de Fleece shirt came, As did more plant fiber. And I skeined up the yarn I was finishing up to prep for TdFl

close up of a bobbin and flyer with small stripes of brown/bronze, dark green, peacock, neon green and electric blue. The rest of the drive wheel and treadles of the loom are in the background on a blue and white/beige striped rug

A rather wrinkled, military green t-shirt draped over a chair. The central figured is a sheep on a bicycle with the balls made of balls of yarn, peddling through a forest with mountains in the background. Across the top it says "Tour de Fleece" with the the "O" being a castle style spinning wheel. Under the bicycle with yellow to orange chevrons at either end are the words "July 4-26, 2026"

A series of little zip lock bags with undyed fiber in them labeled: Flax/linen, Bamboo, Ramie, Tencel, Pineapple, Mint, Hemp, Soybean, Egyptian cotton, Hemp, Rose, Banana, Inego Corn, Lotus. From Hearthside Fibers

4 skeins of Camaj Fiber Arts Ohhh Shiny sampler, with the same color fiber. From approximately 12:00 clockwise: Glass Slipper, Shiny cranberry, and while it looks blue, it's really a Christmas green. next is Raspberry and Great Grape; Mellow yellow and Shiny Seas; Maizy and Mossy. Each bump was about 24 g, each skin is between 110 and 130 yds.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jul 6

Tour de Fleece day/stage 2: Half the Pan's Garden lotus hank spun, the other half divided into smaller pieces for the second bobbin. More full day, and then it's back to work for 4 days, so we'll see how long it takes. At least some spinning every day at least is the plan.

Clear plastic bobbin with blues, greens, and browns in the middle of 5 "buns" of the same lotus fiber surrounding it, all laying in a basket on a light green cloth with knotwork border and Celtic style symbols.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jul 5

Day 1 Tour de Fleece. Lotus fiber from Pan's Garden. This (on bobbin and basket) is 1/2 the hank. A mirror colorway. More than halfway on this bobbin, 32 WPI. Planning a fractal spin.

Clear plastic bobbin on a Majacraft wheels. Bands of color left to right electric blue, muted green/blue, emerald green.

Long hank of fiber snakeing on a pale green cloth. From bottom to top: electric blue to emerald green to peacock to forest green to bronze

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jul 4

Tour de Fleece, plant fiber palooza, day 1. First uPaloma, fiber from Pan's Garden Yarns, who appears to be not producing right now, which is a shame. They do lovely dying. This will be another fractal spin

Rope of fiber laid out in a coil, slightly shiny, colorblocked in a rich brown to pale green to aqua blue, alternating to a final brown.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jul 3

For whatever reason, started playing with this merino/Firestar sampler pack recently. Need to ply these off today in prep for my Plant Fiber Tour de fleece. #spinning #handspun #TourdeFleece

Bag of small "buns" of fiber, yellows, greens, blue, red, pink, white, purple black and gray.

Label reads "Camaj Fiber Arts /camajfiberarts.com/info@camajfiberarts.com

OHH SHINY SAMPLER COLLECTION.

On a yellow tile table

Nine bobbins of spun yarn in a circle with the corresponding fiber in front of them. All merino with firestar. Colors, from approximately 1:00 - Red, pale yellow, dark green, white, green, blue, pink, purple, dark yellow.

Colors unfortunately somewhat obscured by shadow.

On a yellow tile table

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jun 27

My Hippy Ridge Fibers non-4-footed fiber for #TourdeFleece came! Details in Alt text. Never spun mint or pearl top. Not used to buying such small quantities, maybe @lionesselise.bsky.social will go for yarn rather than figuring out what I can do with bits and bobs. #spinning #handspun #plantfibers

Four small skeins of hand-dyed fiber on a dark wood background from left to right:
-Muga/Tussah silk, colorway Rainbow Flourite bright greens, dark purple, turquoisey blue.
- Mint fiber, no name in pale blue and purple.
-Lotus fiber colorway Canyon Lake purples, blues, hints of dark green and brown
- Pearl Top fiber (cellulose) different shades of blue
- Rose fiber colorway Imagine Reds,yellows, greens, magenta and pale blue

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jun 24

Yesterday was lovely. I wore this UNR* Pride Shirt. UNR's mascot is the Wolf Pack. When I worked at UNR a group of us got a rainbow UNR logo approved and added to the collection available in the University book shop. I, of course went out and bought one as soon as they were available. 1/4

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jun 21

I've figured out my #TourdeFleece spinning. A dear and talented friend, @lionesselise.bsky.social cannot tolerate "four-footed fiber" no sheep, alpaca, yak, camel, etc. We have talked about my making something for her. I have some rose and lotus fiber and just bought some more plus some mint 1/2

5 skeins of fiber, some rose, some lotus that have been space dyed in reds oranges, purples greens and blues. From Pan's Garden Yarns.

$Spun Pan's Garden fiber. Left is lotus fiber, mostly warm colors reds, oranges, gold and some green including the mini skein. Right is rose fiber mostly greens, blues, copper and purple. Both fractal spun.$

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jun 5

My Dalia exploded. #flowers #photography

In the foreground mass of magenta flowers in a clear glass vase on a beige tiled table. In the background scattered sun-struck trees and bush in an expanse of black landscaping rock

Arachne@weaverarachne· May 3

The shawl is off the loom, fringe twisted, wet finished. All #handspun. Details in alt text. Proportions aren't the best, but it quite soft and yummy, despite near disasters. #Weaving #handwoven #spinning #handspinning #Strickland

Handspun, handwoven shawl, folded over in an open manner to show the entirety of the piece, as well as both sides. Size 18 3/4" by 80" crackle weave Strickland #175.

Warp Merino/Firestar from Camaj Fiber Arts "Fancy Crow" (black) and "Stirling" (gray), weft is all Greenwood Fiberworks mostly yak/silk, the lighter areas are Merino/silk/cashmere. All colorway "Calypso"

Arachne@weaverarachne· Mar 22

Got through enough of the other things I had stuff, and screwing up my courage, I started weaving the shawl. I am so paranoid about having enough yarn so I am throwing in all the handspun in the colorway family, and will separate different spins with warp yarn. #Handweaving #handspun #multishaft

Front of a floor loom, between the breast beam and the beater. woven web shown with a striped design, first the black Merino/firestar from the warp, followed by the self-striping yak/silk in colors teal, brown, green, purple, blue, green brown. An almost empty bobbin sits in a shuttle next to the beater. The yarn ns mostly black, but with grey and grey/black plied areas. It all has a subtle sheen

Arachne@weaverarachne· Mar 2

Loom is dressed! Just need to tie up the treadles and I can start…figuring out exactly what I’m going to do with the two (or possibly three) weft yarns. 1/3 #weaving #handweaving #handspun #merino #silk #yak

From the side, an 8 shaft Schact Baby Wolf showing warp between the heddles and cloth beam. Yarn is black in the foreground and background, grey and mixed grey/black as it progresses across the warp. Little glints of rainbow color are visible in the black from the firestar. Yarn is merino/firestar from Camaj Fiber Arts color names "fancy crow" and "sterling"

Arachne@weaverarachne· Feb 28

Warp beam loaded. Some day I'll calculate my spools right - had to spin more black/grey plied, wind more spools for the black. Now I have to figure out how to space the extra heddles. Only 8 epi and using 24 of 26" that's a lot of heddles to disperse. #weaving #handwoven #handspun

View of back of Schact Baby Wolf loom, looking directly down at the warp which is loaded with black, black/grey, and grey yarn. the harnesses and heddles are visible at the top of the image, the warp beam is visible at the bottom of the image.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Feb 21

MO Boudreaux says Happy #Caturday and "Mine all Mine" (or at least this one sleeve, but try and put it on now). #CatPhotography #Cats

A cat sits on the arm of a wrinkled tan long-sleeved top, staring at the camera. Her body perfectly covers the arm and does not extend beyond. In the foreground is the rest of the shirt lying on a purple - dominant colored patterned blanket with a tag reading "8th Gen Eighth Generation Blanket designed by Lynda Teller Pete (Dine). In the background is the rest of the bed and a teddy bear.

Same image from head-on to the cat. You can see she is a tortoise-shell with a tan racing stripe down her nose, a half tan muzzle, and piercing green eyes. Here you can see that beyond the cuff seen in the other pictures, all of the shirt arm is covered. More of the purple - dominant colored, mauve, white, and black secondary colored patterned blanket dominates most of the frame, in the background a night stand and window are visible.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Feb 8

I still need to set the twist on the Sterling and the Sterling/Fancy Crow ply, but all the yarn for a shawl has been spun. Going to use the black and grey for warp, the colored yarn for weft. Not sure of set or weave yet. Yarn description in alt text. #Fiberarts #handspinning #weaving #handwoven

Six skeins of yarn arranged in a pinwheel. At approx 3:00 is one of two skeins of Camaj Fiber Arts "Ohh Shiney" Merino/firestar in "Fancy Crow" two ply; at 5:00 is Greenwood Fiberworks "Calypso" colorway in Yak/silk chain (3) ply; at 6:00 "Ohh Shiney" in "Sterling" two ply; at 8:00 another hank of the Fancy Crow; at 11:00 Greenwood Fiberworks "Calypso" in Merino, silk and cashmere chain ply; and at 1:00 the Fancy Crow and Sterling plied together.

Same yarn laid out in a linear fashion, L to R: Greenwood Fiberworks colorway "Calypso" in Merino, silk and cashmere chain (3) ply; Greenwood Fiberworks "Calypso" in Yak/silk chain ply; two skeins of Camaj Fiber Arts "Ohh Shiney" Merino/firestar in "Fancy Crow" The Fancy Crow plied with another Ohh Shiney Stirling two ply; And "Ohh Shiney" in Sterling 2 ply

Arachne@weaverarachne· Jan 19

MO Boudreaux says "possession is 9/10ths of the law - this is WHOSE jacket? #catsky #cats #NotCaturday

Tortoise she'll cat lying on a blue plaid jacket, draped over a pink cushioned barrel shaped, sundrenched chairs

Arachne@weaverarachne· Dec 16

Sunrise today. Looks like the atmospheric stream is getting closer - before the precipitation it provides beautiful skys #sunrise #photography #westernskys #skysky #SierraNevadaMountains

Sky full of clouds, looking grey and ominous in the foreground but becoming underlit by the rising sun and turning orange. Behind the mountains a yellow glow of the barely risen sun blazes forth. Bottom of the picture/foreground is the dark silhouettes of mountains and houses, with the small glow of lights peeking through windows.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Dec 3

Last night's sunset as I was leaving work.

Mountains, with a dusting of snow, and turning purple in the gathering darkness silhouetted against a vibrant sunset of bright red fading into streaks of clouds and a lavender/blue sky. In the midground is a ranch-style house, glowing with the warmth of Christmas lights and the yellow luminescence of the front porch. Behind the house are the silhouettes of pine and other trees. In the foreground is a ocean of sage, also looking purple/blue in the fading light

Arachne@weaverarachne· Nov 30

Won't! The 4 oz of yak/silk from Greenwood Fiberworks is spun, about 45 wpi. Let it rest, then chain ply. Other images the unspun fiber; yarn made with the same fiber/colorway; and the same colorway in merino/silk/cashmere #handspun #handspinning #fiberart

A mostly full bobbinin bands of blue, green, brown, teal, brown, blue, green. The colorway alsohas purple.

Braid of unspun fiber in a coil. All the colors mentioned in the first picture, including purple. Thecolorsaremore distinct.

4 skeins. Three are the same fiber and colorway (Calypso), one much lighter and mutedis merino/silk/cashmere.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Nov 11

My mom (on the left) was an Air Evacuation nurse. Died at 101 in 2021. She would have been so honored

Two women in WWII uniforms smiling. The shorter one on the left is my mom, an air evacuation nurse. Note the caduses (sp) on her lapels and wings on her shoulder patch.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Nov 7

interfaiths.substack.com/p/how-much-a...

American Jewish Committee Survey 2024
The 2024 American Jewish Committee survey (post October 7) finds
that:

40% of Americans have personally seen or heard antisemitic
activity in the past 12 months.

74% of American adults say antisemitism is a problem,
including 34% who say it is a “serious problem.”

In the past year, 46% of Jewish adults altered their behavior
because of antisemitism.

50% of Jewish adults said antisemitism increased a lot in
2023, up from 43% in 2022, and 37% in 2021.

30% of American Jews reported feeling uncomfortable
about expressing their views on Israel or identifying
themselves as Jews.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Oct 31

Have fun! Here's a blanket I spun and wove. Turned into a breed study - spun single breed yarn. A lot of it is Shetland or Jacob, but also Finn and Gotland. Claimed by Ms. MO Boudreaux before it was even dry after wet finishing.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Sep 24

For point of reference, I'm barely 5'2"

Selfie in a rather dirty mirror in a rather messy room. Gray haired woman in a black shirt and tan cropped pants, with a large green bag over her shoulder. The bag has the Little Gem in it, and it hangs from my shoulder. The bag comes down a bit past my knee.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Sep 24

Pictures of my new Little Gem ready to spin, folded up, in its bag, & (next post) on my shoulder. It's certainly going to be my go-to for travel. If it didn't have a Willie Winder on my Kromski Sonata, another travel wheel, I'd have to let it go. #SpinningWheel #handspinning #Majacraft #FiberTools

Majacraft Little Gem spinning wheel as seen from the non-treadle side. It is sitting on a tan and beige rug, and there is a tuft of gray metallic fiber visible hanging from the bobbin. The wheel is particularly remarkable for it's very small drive wheel and different style of drive and tension bands.

Same wheel, but folded flat. The shaft, whorl and bobbin spindle are of a piece. The delta flyer, bobbin and drive band are next to it.

Same image of the spinning wheel folded, but with the carry bag next to it. it is "Majacraft Green" ripstop nylon with black handles and shoulder strap.

The Majacraft carry bag with spinning wheel inside.

Arachne@weaverarachne· Sep 23

My #Majacraft #LittleGem came! So cute, a bit of a different spin, but quite lovely. It folds down to nothing, is feather light (especially compared to the Suzie!), and the bag is great. I didn't want to fold it so that twho and tell will have to wait. #SpinningWheel #handspinning #tools #fiberarts