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Spring Cleaning Your Strauch Drum Carder
Have you been bitten by the spring cleaning bug? As you tidy up, don’t forget about your drum carder! While our machines are designed to require little to no maintenance or adjustments over a lifetime of use, there are a … Continue reading
How to Wet Felt Coasters from Carded Batts
Wet felting is a technique that uses friction to blend together wool fibers into a solid sheet. Today, we’ll show you how to felt batts straight from your drum carder into a thick sheet of felt that you can cut … Continue reading
Posted in Carding, Felting, Tutorial
Tagged diy, holiday gifts, tutorial, wet felting
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Staple Length: A Quick Guide for Fiber Artists
The term staple length is frequently used when talking about fleece and fiber, but have you ever wondered why staple length matters and how it affects your choice of tools and techniques in a given project? In this post, we’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Carding, Fiber, Handspinning, Resources, Tutorial
Tagged Fiber, fiber processing, handspinning, tutorial
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How to Card a Sweetheart Batt for Handspun Hearts
Looking to add a handmade touch to your Valentine’s Day? There are lots of free knitting and crochet patterns for making hearts for your sweetheart, and today, we’ll not only show you a quick & easy batt project to whip … Continue reading
Posted in Carding, Handspinning, Inspiration, Tutorial
Tagged crochet, drum carding, handspun, holidays, pattern inspiration, tutorial, valentine's day
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How to Make Rolags With a Drum Carder
Have you ever wanted to spin from rolags? This type of fiber preparation is well suited for production-style handspinning, particularly the long-draw woolen method. Today, we’ll show you how to turn prepared fibers into beautiful rolags with a Strauch drum carder! Supplies A Strauch … Continue reading
How to Card a 4-Color Striped Batt
Striped batts are a great way to transform your fiber stash into unique batts you’ll love to spin. When your fiber stash gets out of hand, this is a wonderful way to put those leftover bits of fiber or orphaned braids of roving to good … Continue reading
Get Inspired with 5 Fiber Blending Tutorials
Today we’re sharing some of our favorite fiber blending tutorials. We hope you will be inspired to try something new on your Strauch Drum Carder this summer! 1. The Great Blending Experiment Before moving into color management and texture creating, learning what … Continue reading
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Tagged blending how to, Fiber, roundup, Strauch Fiber, tutorial
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How to Felt in a Jar
Do you love felting but don’t like getting your hands wet, or you want to conserve water? Try felting in a jar! We love all things fiber here at Strauch, and people ask us all the time what they can … Continue reading
Walking in a Wooly Wonderland
Last November we brought you three fun and easy projects to make with wool roving, and we decided that we’d like to continue that holiday tradition with this post. With our button diz and any of our drum carders, you … Continue reading