
Our Making in 2024
02/01/24 • 62 min
Dear Spinning Circle,
Another month of Wool n' Spinning radio! I can't believe we are really into 2024 now! This is the second part (Part I here) of Rebecca and my conversation about our goals and thoughts about 2024. We recorded towards to the end of January so we have some initial reflections about the year, how it started and momentuum on projects.
Patreon Post here
Please take a moment to share with us your thoughts on one or all of the questions we were contemplating ourselves in this episode - we'd love to hear from you!
Specific to Our Making in 2024:
- Are there skills you want to develop or projects you want to complete in your making?
- Are there any time-wasting activities you want to reduce?
- Connection within our making is such a huge aspect of what we do and who we are. How can you strengthen your connections with others in the coming year?
If there is someone or something you'd like to hear on future episodes of Wool n' Spinning Radio, please reach out! If you have a making story to share, we'd love to feature you on the show - get in touch be messaging Rachel directly on Patreon, Slack or leaving a comment below!
Until next time,
Happy Spinning & Making!
Rachel & Rebecca
Dear Spinning Circle,
Another month of Wool n' Spinning radio! I can't believe we are really into 2024 now! This is the second part (Part I here) of Rebecca and my conversation about our goals and thoughts about 2024. We recorded towards to the end of January so we have some initial reflections about the year, how it started and momentuum on projects.
Patreon Post here
Please take a moment to share with us your thoughts on one or all of the questions we were contemplating ourselves in this episode - we'd love to hear from you!
Specific to Our Making in 2024:
- Are there skills you want to develop or projects you want to complete in your making?
- Are there any time-wasting activities you want to reduce?
- Connection within our making is such a huge aspect of what we do and who we are. How can you strengthen your connections with others in the coming year?
If there is someone or something you'd like to hear on future episodes of Wool n' Spinning Radio, please reach out! If you have a making story to share, we'd love to feature you on the show - get in touch be messaging Rachel directly on Patreon, Slack or leaving a comment below!
Until next time,
Happy Spinning & Making!
Rachel & Rebecca
Previous Episode

Welcoming 2024!
Dear Spinning Circle,
Welcome 2024! I hope this finds you happy, healthy & excited for the new year. I know here in my home, we have had a very quiet week, watching a couple of movies, soccer games & attending a hockey game (very Canadian of us). The kids had never been to a hockey game before so that was fun sharing that joy with them!
Today, Rebecca and I sat down to chat about the upcoming year here at Wool n' Spinning. The overarching theme of the next two years will be Sarah Anderson's The Spinner’s Book of Yarn Designs. We will be tackling the book in regular increments - see the syllabus here - with regular releases of content (Spinning Purls) from myself that touch on key points from within the book.
For a comprehensive overview of the options involved to engage in our 2-year book study - check out this post here. It is also available on the blog here.
Access to the Ravelry thread here
Access previous Wool n' Spinning Radio Episodes here
We also talked a little bit about the coming year. We began with tackling some overarching goals we both have for 2024, including a discussion of the following questions:
- What are your top priorities for the coming year?
- What specific goals do you want to achieve in the next year? What are your short-term goals for the upcoming months? What are your long-term goals for the upcoming months?
- Are there any recurring challenges or obstacles that you want to address in the new year?
- How do you envision your making or hobbies at the end of next year?
I hope you enjoyed our conversation! We have a few more questions we ran out of time to discuss today so we will pick up the thread of the conversation next month - see you then!
Have a wonderful holiday season - Happy New Year once again! Comment below with questions as they come up - if you're wondering, so are others!
Warmly,
Rachel
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The Importance of Every Day Creativity
Dear Spinning Circle,
This month we are joined by Suzanne Reyes, a long-time member of our community who had the opportunity to work on a year-long project called The Importance of Every Day Creativity. We had a wonderful conversation about the depth and breadth of creativity in our every day lives. She has presented this to faculty, students and now shared her story here! Enjoy!
More is available on Patreon here
Thank you to Suzanne for taking time today to chat with us about her project - it was very inspiring!
Definitions:
Generativity - a concern for establishing and guiding the next generation, originally coined by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson; the ability to transcend personal interests to provide care and concern for younger and older generations
Fibonacci - a sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, etc ...)
Suzanne mentions many books throughout the podcast & I have linked to many of them below:
A Fine Fleece: Knitting with Handspun Yarns by Lisa Lloyd
A Craftsman's Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning by Eric Gorges
Craft in America (YouTube)
Great Barrier Reef Crochet Project here
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
The Quilts of Gee's Bend by Susan Goldman Rubin
Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters by Patricia A. Turner
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