DreamEyce Studio Blog

I don’t spin enough anymore, and seems when I do spin, I never finish projects. Why do ya’ll think I keep making new spindles ;) heh My spinning wheels are packed away, and I really need to pull the ashford back out, now that it’s getting colder. I bought the jumbo [...]

I meant to take this piece with me to the national, but just found it in one of my inventory boxes. WHOOPS! I had some interest in spindles before the nationals, so here’s a chance to buy a pre-made one at a discounted price! This is a hand-made and painted drop spindle [...]

After digging through old pics and finding the picture of the siamese rat spindle I made for a friend a few years ago, I was inspired to make myself my own rattie spindle.

A few of the ratties have names beside them, but the ones without names symbolize multiple ‘favorite’ ratties (Like the agouti/brown, [...]

My favorite part about spinning, is knowing the animals the fiber comes from! I actually originally wanted to spin, to use fiber from my beloved Heart Dog, Robbie. That sadly never happened (I didn’t learn to spin ’til after Robin passed), but I make sure to collect fiber from the current pups, even [...]

When I began spinning a few years ago, I made it VERY clear I wanted a “Purple Spinning Wheel”. My first wheel was my Babe Fiber Starter, which is plastic, and PVC. It’s “paintable”, but not worth sanding, priming, and painting, since paint doesn’t hold well on PVC.
My second wheel was [...]

I’ve been working on Traum blend yarn on my new Cardi spindle between other projects. Here’s how it’s looking so far:

I love how it’s even colored like him! The donor Bunny which the Traum fluff was blended with is an agouti, so her color really matches Traumy’s brindling.
I’ve not decided whether [...]