Tracy White inspires

This week has been the best ever for the Thames Creative Fibre group. On Monday several hundred fibre enthusiasts attended our Open Day. One of the traders was Inspire Fibres aka Tracy White who is a consummate spinner and felter herself. Over the following 4 days Tracy gave 4 workshops to our club members. Her extensive knowledge and love of fibres is apparent in her teaching. Her respect for the fibre and her commitment to supplying her customers with good quality fibre shows in all her work. All her dyed silk and wool is double dyed to ensure deep dye penetration. You can contact Tracy at tracywhite@inspire.net.nz

I was fortunate to host the Core Wrapping Workshop. Here is Tracy and a bobbin of corewrapped yarn on her Majacraft Little Gem wheel.

She had a wonderful selection of her fibres with her including silks, merino, and suri alpaca.

We also learnt how to make punis using a Majacraft blending board -they look so delicious http://www.majacraft.co.nz/blog/

and how to make them using a wild carder.

I was fascinated by the technique of using a diz to draw multiple colours of fibre from a hackle to make a beautiful blends of colours and textures. The dizzed fibre is just behind the hackle. The diz and hackle were also made by Majacraft. http://www.majacraft.co.nz/preparation.php

We had a fun day and can't wait to do this again next year. Thank you Tracy.