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Fantastic Fibers and How to Blend Them: Your Guide to Art Batt Additives
Art batts are fun to make, and the magical yarns they create are one of a kind. In this post, we’ll introduce you to a few add ins, and how to best integrate them into your batts. Fiber and Yarn … Continue reading
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How to Blend a Candy Corn Batt
A Halloween favorite, candy corn has been an iconic October snack for decades. In this post, we’re sharing a sweet tutorial with you so that you can make your very own candy corn batt for spinning this fall! Supplies: Strauch Drum … Continue reading
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Tagged batt, batts, blending, candy corn, carding, drum carder, Fiber, fiber blending, fiber prep, Roving, strauch, Strauch Fiber, strauch fiber equipment, wool
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Fiber Artist Feature: Nicole Frost – Frostyarn
This industry is filled with amazing and talented artists from all different backgrounds, and it’s always inspiring to get to know them better. This week, we have Nicole Frost, fiber artist behind Frostyarn, and avid user of Strauch Drum Carders. … Continue reading
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Tagged artist feature, batts, Fiber, fiber prep, frostyarn, interview, nicole frost, strauch fiber equipment
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Peacock Batt – Blending Tutorial
Inspiration is everywhere, and today we want to show how to turn your ideas into reality. The jumping off point for this tutorial is a peacock feather. It can be notoriously difficult to capture their beauty and shine, and all of … Continue reading
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Tagged batts, blending, drum carder, Fiber, inspiration, jewel tone, peacock, petite, yarn
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5 Drum Carder Videos You Need to Watch
You may have noticed that we have been posting more videos recently, but did you know that we have a whole YouTube channel devoted to our products and how to use them? In this blog post we will share 5 videos … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 tips, batts, blending fiber, carding, drum carders, fiber prep, How to, petite drum carders, rolags, Roving, strauch fiber equipment, YouTube videos
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Color Theory, Part 2
In our last post we talked about the basics of color theory, and how to combine colors. Today we’re going to show you some examples of batts, and how these follow (and break!) the rules of color theory. Example #1: … Continue reading