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The Fleece & Wheel Handspun

Handspun yarns and other products made from sustainable natural fibres. All materials sourced from within Australia unless otherwise noted.

25/09/2022

A favourite knit of mine, off to Canada.

It because way too small for me so I decided to let someone else have it. The pattern is Papillon and is not size inclusive. My favourite part to knit was the neckline.

[Image description: a royal purple jumper takes up the bottom left majority of the image. It has a boat neckline and a lace pattern block down the front. You can’t see in the image but it has 3/4 sleeves.]

09/08/2022

Some Dorsey Horn sock yarn coming to the shop soon :)

[Image description: a white persons hand clenched around some bright green hand spun yarn. There’s greens of every kind in it. In the background is a blurry white dog and a messy house.]

04/08/2022

Handwoven bookmarks available in the shop now :) this one features hand spun wool yarn with some recycled sari silk.

[Image description: the image has a white border. It’s a closeup of a woven bookmark hanging out of the bottom of a book. You can just see the title of the book is ‘Fingersmith’. The bookmark is grey, mustard, and rainbow. It’s on a white circular table.]

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30/07/2022

Available in the shop is this hank of nylon-free hand spun sock yarn! It’s spun from Dorset Horn top dyed in NSW by .krita - I think there’s some left in her store if you want to spin your own. It’s a hard wearing wool perfect for socks.

Website link in bio.

[Image description: a loosely wound hank of multicoloured yarn arranged in what I call a ‘cupcake’ as it looks like the icing on a cupcake. Colours include pink, brown, orange, yellow. The background is grey/white.]

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20/06/2022

I have finally finished this scarf/wrap (finished photos to come soon). I wanted to highlight the added texture sewing in the weft threads vertically makes. I enjoy.

The new Fleece and Wheel website is on THE BRINK of existence.

[image description: there is a white border. The image inside is a close up of a woven piece of fabric still on the loom. It is blue in the right hand side and cream/white on the left hand side. You can see thickened areas where I have sewn in the warp ends.]

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09/05/2020

I’m planning a massive destash sale on my Etsy store soon, there will be fabric, wool, batts, yarn, and this beautiful pure silk which I’m attempting to dye prettily today; if I f**k it up there will be some beautiful black silk yarn for sale 😉 help me out folks, I don’t wanna pack all my s**t up.
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We are doing adult things next week; we are meeting with a real estate agent, an accountant, and a mortgage broker. 0/10 not looking forward to being responsible. I always feel weird when meeting with Professionals, like they’ll look at me and see some weird fifteen year old child trying to act like a grown up.
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[image description: close up view of some undyed fine silk yarn on a fluorescent green umbrella swift].
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27/03/2020

Today I’m grateful: that I seem to have grown out of my soap allergy so my hands have never been cleaner.
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[image description: close up of a white persons hands knitting something in grey wool. You can see they are wearing denim and a wedding band.]
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16/03/2020

When I first learnt to knit many moons ago I quickly became obsessed with hand knitted socks. I have a whole Pinterest board. Anyway I tried a few times and decided I hated it but then I was like f**k you all I want to knit some socks! So I worked out it was the yarn, I don’t like commercial sock yarn 🤷🏼 so I spun my own (and now I’m never spinning any other type of yarn again). Lo and behold I enjoyed the yarn so much I finished a whole pair of socks in a matter of weeks! 10/10 would recommend spinning your own yarn for socks. I will probably do a more detailed blog post later, I’m up to my armpits in nursing study s**t.
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Yarn: handspun chained 3 ply Cheviot dyed by .krita .
Pattern: warm feet for everybody by on .ravelry .
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[image description: hairy legged white person standing on wooden steps showing off some hand knit socks in stripes of neon rainbow colours, bright pink stands out the most].
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23/02/2020

New blog post up! It’s basically me just waxing poetic about my ripple bralette.
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Www.thefleeceandwheel.com/blog
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[image description: white person with short brown hair stands in front of a tree and blue fence. They are wearing a purple hand knitted bra and the words ‘new blog post!’ Is superimposed in white].
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03/02/2020

New post up! All about what to do with handspun yarn. Www.thefleeceandwheel.com/blog 😬
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[image description: white persons hands spinning wool from a multicoloured braid. White text overlaid says ‘new blog post!’]
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04/01/2020

Every Friday evening for the next few weeks I’ll be donating 100% of sales from The Fleece and Wheel’s Etsy shop to bushfire collections. And remember it’s 20% off until the end of January :) Last weeks went directly to the NSW rural fire service, next week will go to the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities gofundme. Shop link is in my profile.
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I’m so proud of our fellow Australian’s and overseas friends stepping up to help! The generosity of people can be truly amazing.
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Remember if you can’t financially help THAT IS OKAY! You can share posts like this one on social media, share links to the collections and drives, and pray for rain.
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[image description: 1 - a blue and purple background with white type saying 100% of proceeds from the fleece and wheel Etsy shop will be forwarded to bushfire collection drives; 2 - a blue and purple fluffy background with 20% off typed in skinny white font].
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27/12/2019

Like it says on the tin! Link in profile. Everything in my Etsy shop is 20% off until 26th January because, capitalism! And also I’m running out of storage room 😉 so if you’ve been eyeing something off now is the time to get it.
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We have paid off our cats vet bill, partly thanks to you lot buying a bunch of stuff when I asked so please don’t feel obliged because of sick pets! Charlee thanks you too, except the steroids she is on now makes her ravenous ALL THE TIME.
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As always, a portion of proceeds gets donated, this time to the Queensland and New South Wales Rural Fire Services to help them to stop our country from burning down since our useless government isn’t giving them enough.
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[image description: white skinny text that reads ‘20% off sale!’ superimposed on a background of blue and purple wool.]
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