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Tamarack Spins
@tamarack-spins.bsky.social
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Fiber arts enthusiast! I love to spin, knit and dye fiber.🧶

I’ll be here posting my fiber processing, dye, and knitting projects and learning from the amazing fiber community 🐑🫶🧶🌈

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2025 Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival in the books! I’ve had the best couple weeks, ending the summer on a high! #wisonsinsheepandwool #handspinning #fiberprep #wisonsinsheepandwoolfestival
Looking at some cute Shetland rams at WS&WF Touching one of many fabulous fleeces at WS&WF The fleece haul from WS&WF. One very white Corriedale from Rose the sheep, one BFL & Teeswater cross with an impressively long staple length and gorgeous color and a scruffy but incredibly fine California Variegated Mutant. I learned the CVMs are a conservation breed too! The insane 6in staple length on the dark BFL Teeswater crossbreed.
September 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Mother’s Day with my favorite girl in my favorite place. Also got an amazing gift from my husband and daughter, the Cleo XL project bag 🤩🧶❤️
#LYS #yarn #knitting #alwaysknitting #muudprojectbag #yarnlover
Black Muud Cleo XL project back in the foreground with the Wool and Company yarn store in the background. Mom and daughter smiling in front of a rack of hedgehog fibers yarn skeins.
May 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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IYKYK
❤️🐑🧶
Gnome spindle
#supportspindles #handspun #handspinning #woodlandspindles #supportspinning
Woodland Handcraft gnome spindle laying in a pile of grey/beige carded wool.
March 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Based on a #Booksky recommendation I borrowed a Barbara Comyns book from the library and absolutely loved it! 📚So I was itching to get another and recognized the cover of The Vet’s Daughter…it was already on my shelf. I have a habit of buying NYRBs because they’re pretty. I’m going to read this one!
Two books with title cover facing out resting on top a pillow side by side. The left is The Vet’s Daughter and the right Our Spoons Came From Woolworths both written by Barbara Comyns.
March 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Louspinda getting some action today as I work my way through a MellyKnits mega batt 🐑🧶😊
#spinningwheel #mellyknits #fiberbatt #louetspinningwheel #handspun
A spinning bobbin 🧵 on a Louet S17 spinning wheel 1/4 loaded with a grey with brightly speckled silk spun wool single. A close up of the unspun fiber from the Touski Melly Knits mega batt. The fiber has a grey base with flecks of multi colored silk.
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Took advantage of the warm albeit windy weather to get some wool picking done outside and do a little exploring of Evanston, which included a bike shop, book shop, plant shop and of course a wonderful yarn shop 🧶
#knitsky #fiberprep #wool #handknit #evanstonIllinois #LYS #shoplocal
Hand holding a few locks of washed unpicked fiber in the sun with a bin of fiber and fiber brush in the background. Thirty something in a red skirt, clogs, hand knit cream sweater and rad radishes socks looking very wind blown with shopping bags standing in front of Evanston Stitchworks shop.
March 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Finished just in time for some 78 degree weather 🤦‍♀️ Basically knit this twice after finding an unforgivable error after blocking the first time. Ripped it back got a nice cup of tea and started to redo it. Worth it 🧶
#knitsky #petiteknit #estherjacket #knitting #alwaysknitting
Thirty something female modeling a finished cream sweater with faux leather buttons. The pattern is Esther Jacket by Petite Knit, knit is Harrisville Designs yarn Daylight. Esther Jacket sweater laid out on table blocking. Sweater on knitting needles with a hand holding a cup of tea. Basically finished sweater with the bottom ribbing being ripped out.
March 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Surprise gift 💝 that smells heavenly. Hoping this fluff will absorb some of the sent. Pampering myself with a satisfying spin on this mushroom Woodland spindle and then off to enjoy a long luxurious shower 🧼
#spindlespinners #handspinning #supportspindles #spinningyarn #spinnersofbsky
Pictures is a Woodland Handcrafts mushroom spindle in thuya burl, maple and walnut with some fawn colored wool on the shaft in the background is a floral Lush box with a tin of soap and bottle of body-wash.
February 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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FYI Stephen Willette currently has some absolute stunners in his Etsy shop! www.etsy.com/shop/Stephen...
#spindlespinning #supportspindles #handspinning
Several blown glass tipped support spindles pictured on an etsy page.
February 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Spinning some BFL ❤️ on this beautiful Enid Ashcroft spindle, best way to fend off the Sunday scaries. 🧶🐑🧶
#spindlespinning #handspun #handspinning #spinnersofbsky #supportspindles
On a wooden coffee table an Enid Ashcroft high worl support spindle in pippy yew is laying next to a lapbowl by Visount Woodworking on a pile of white fluff. Fluff is day 6 Melly Knits advent BFL and alpaca blend.
February 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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My current WIPs. The Esther Jacket by Petiteknit & a toddler sweater made with some of my handyed that I’m working to get off sleeve island. I think I learned my lesson, I will not try two color brioche without a pattern again. Doing it in the round has caused some major twist.🧶
#knitsky #knitting
A cream colored ball of yarn on a textured front panel of a hand knit cardigan on knitting needles resting. In the background an ottoman with a mug and fire in a fireplace. Ravelry pattern Esther Jacket #petiteknit A toddler sweater with one sleeve unfinished on knitting needles. The two color brioche is a bright purple as the main color with a hand painted yarn with bright speckles as the second yarn.
February 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Finished my mom’s birthday sweater just in time! My dads’s sweater was a Christmas gift that thankfully now fits after a good blocking. His sweater was a labor of love that was finished on x-mas eve and was a bit of a belly shirt pre blocking. ❤️🫶❤️hand-knit sweater gifts 🎁
#knitsky #knitting #knit
Three people posing outside on a winter day wearing hand-knit sweaters. On the left and right the two people are wearing matching #porcelainsweaters made with Porcelain Sweater Solo pattern by Lene Holme Samoe in a cream and blue color. Center is a taller person wearing a dark green sweater knit using Sweater No.18 pattern by My Favorite Things.
January 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I got an unexpected little bonus so I treated myself to this gorgeous binder that I have eyeing 👀 for a while. @threadandmaple.bsky.social makes the most beautiful and useful knitting and spinning tool organizers! 🧶
#knitsky #spinnersofbsky #knitting #ThreadandMaple #knittersofbsky
January 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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My fiber journey started just a year ago. I’d been an avid knitter and had stumbled into spinning and thought maybe the Suffolk sheep on the farm I grew up on,Tamarack Farm, were more than just market sheep. Now a lot of spindles and fiber prep tools later I don’t know why I didn’t start sooner!🐑🧶
A photo grid with a Suffolk sheep poking it nose through the slots of a wooden fence pictured in top left corner, sheep in a corral with sunset in the background in the top right corner, a pile of sheared fleece with a crimpy locked held in focus by and hand in the bottom left and a photo of tamarack trees against a blue sky and a green pasture in the foreground in the bottom right.
January 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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A little knit crochet mashup collar. It’s freezing but this bright ☀️ is making all these colors pop! 🧶
#knitting #crochet #fiberart #handmade
A bright colorful crocheted floral collar on a person wearing a cream button up blouse with a cream knit cardigan pictured from the neck down.
January 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Very into collars right now. This one knit up very fast in some leftover stash mohair and I am loving it. #knitsky #knitting 🧶 Anyone have any suggestions for good collar knitting patterns? I used the Neverland Collar pattern with some alterations for this one.
January 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Enjoying some of my Christmas presents! Still slowly making my way through #mellyknits True North and figuring out how to spin long wools. Loving this Mirkwood spindle I got through destash. Is Mirkwood still making spindles?
#spinnersofbluesky
#handspun
#spindles
#fiberarts
#supportspindles
January 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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A couple projects I recently wrapped up that I’m pretty pleased with 🙂 especially for not following a pattern. #knitting #crotchet #knittingallthetime #knitwear
January 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Working on a porcelain sweater for my mom after she fell in love with mine ❤️ #knitting #porcelainsweater #colorwork
Also trying out knitting with both hands. As a continental knitter it feels so awkward holding the yarn in my right hand 😬 Any tips?
January 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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This snow day gave me some time to get myself set up on Bluesky and get started on day 4s advent from #mellyknits! I figured I’d be slow getting this advent spun so I’m enjoying taking my time and choosing #supportspindles that suits each fiber type.
#spinningfiber #handspun #woodlandspindle
Woodland dragon egg spindle resting on marble table in a small pile of grey wool fiber. Melly Knits True North day 4 moose tag lays beside it.
January 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM