Archaic Arcane 🇨🇦

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Tammi Canadian, long arm quilter, (yarn)spinner, knitter, weaver, long time amateur photographer, amateur woodturner, semi-retired from IT, sewing machine repair person. Still a bit of a city girl learning to live in the country. https://archaicarcane.com

Two skeins of chocolate brown rustic somewhat neppy handspun yarn (it WAS combing waste after all) in skeins sit atop a table with the base of a lamp beside them. The lamp is lighting the skeins because it’s late enough in the day that there’s not enough natural light for photos in Central Alberta Canada on a late afternoon in the Winter. Author is more than a little done with snow storms for the year and knows another is forecast for the following day and plans to hunker down for the duration. Again. Maybe she’ll spin.
Three maple WooLee Winder bobbins with chocolate brown wool singles on a self made maple lazy kate. A couple of 3D cross arm spindle bodies are stored on the last pin.
The right half of a gas stove with a pot on it containing tallow and peanut butter. Beside the stove is a plastic container with black oil sunflower seeds, shelled peanut halves, oatmeal and grubs.
A blue and grey handspun sock heel is stretched atop a darning mushroom and yarn tails hang out in various spots. The center of the image shows the sock has been mended using the duplicate stitch. #handspun #knitsky #knitting #wastenot #spinning #handspun
A 3D Printed cross arm spindle with one blue arm and one translucent black (which actually ends up looking sort of titanium like for some reason) sits atop a wood table. I designed the arms in CAD and printed them then turned a shaft on the lathe to match. The spindle contains a little bit of thin yarn in a strange muted purple/pink colour that when I dyed it was supposed to be red but somehow wasn’t. #spinning #handspinning #yarn
A cherry wood support spindle being born (on a wood lathe) - it's just about ready to be "parted off" or finished and removed from the lathe. In fact, this spindle had a flying lesson when I rotated my skew chisel wrong and has a small gouge in it as a flight souvenir. It's visually imperfect but spins a lovely thread.
A close up of a mostly blue but with teal highlights lace shawl knit with support spindle handspun yarn comprised of mostly silk and the rest black merino. Pattern by MMario called Queen of Heaven. #showmeyourknits #knitsky #handspun #spindlespun
10 or so skeins of yarn spread out on a faux wood background. There are a couple of blue-ish skeins, a purple one and the rest are natural colours. Most are in the fingering to lace weight ranges. Some are spindle spun, most are plied on a wheel.
A blue partially knit cabled project with several stitch markers on a blanket with a peek of the pattern in the upper left corner.