DTJacobson (she/her)🌞

A big white bag tied shut with blue and silver ribbons and a big name tag.

24 white paper bags, each decorated with festive fiber-related artwork. At the back is a red 25th bag.

Somewhat behind on the 2025 #Spinning Advent Calendar, but hoping to get caught up before Xmas. 25 bags of fibery goodness! 🌞 #fiberarts #handspinning #treadles2threads

Close-up of Shetland lace pattern "Razor Shell" out of handspun yarn in reds, blues, greens, and golds.

"Waves On The Beach" (2020): #handknit Shetland lace of #handspun wool/alpaca/silk/flash blend. #fiberarts #spinning #knitting #warmth #BlueSkyArtShow

Wishing a very happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates it. 🌞

Bouncy, bouncy this afternoon. Only a 3.6, but you really feel it when it's practically under the studio. #earthquake

Generally, the lighter the spindle, the finer the singles. My T-spindles range from 11.6g to 23g, but I have friends with T-spindles that are as little as 6g. They're used for spinning frog hair. 😉

Small white cards with information on each bag's contents next to stitch markers made from antique glass beads and 10g balls of colored Romney-Coopworth top, in front of a cluster of white paper bags.

At this time of year, the studio turns into something like Santa's workshop. Some of the bags for a #spinning guild's Advent Calendar. #fiberprep #fiberarts #artistlife #Treadles2threads #holidays

Siri: Less than owning sheep.

The view #inside the loom of a couple holiday towels in 10/2 cotton. This is double-2-tie on 40 shafts. #BlueSkyArtShow #weaving #handwoven #fiberarts #weavingpictures

Took a break for the local #NoKings protest. You can't be intimidated by authoritarian a$$hole$ when you're being silly. 🌞😜 #grantifa #artistlife

#BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical #NoKings

Petrichor!! 🌨 😃 #firstrain

Just woken up by a 4.5 temblor. 😲 Everybody/everything OK but I Do Not Like Earthquakes.

It's on my calendar. Now it just depends on the weather. 🥵

#Home for the holidays. #BlueSkyArtShow

Somewhere a Reeves is missing 2 bobbins, its "bug" (as in VW) kate, and its distaff. I think the flyer is from a Lendrum. You might contact the seller so these parts can get to the wheel owners.

Big day for the sidewheel ferryboat Eureka and Vallejo! The #NPS and San Francisco Maritime Museum are moving her to Mare Island. There will be a crowd on hand to welcome her this evening. More pix later. #NHL #MINSY #SFMM #localhistory #artistlife

The local museum has its big gala on 9/20 & I'm going. Everything in the studio-- #weaving #spinning, etc--is on the "back burner" until I get an evening suit made. #sewing #fiberarts #goawayimsewing #1940s #artistlife

TBH, I've haven't given it much thought. All the yarns in the studio are US-spun to meet labeling requirements. Everything I've bought in 2025 came from CA, OR, or WA, not because of politics, but because my all suppliers are on the West Coast (many in my fibershed).

A broad river meandering between banks covered with trees and shrubs, under a blue sky flecked with puffy white clouds. The Rio Grande from the Paseo de Onate Bridge, Española, New Mexico, May 2017.

Española NM, 2017. #weaving #fiberarts #artistlife #skyline #BlueSkyArtShow

What you're describing is "intentional" spinning, which takes both knowledge & practice. "The Intentional Spinner" by Judith Mackenzie will supply the knowledge. You know the rest. 😉

It's a lovely day to be outside. I'll clean later. 🌞 #dyepotMonday #weaving #spinning #dyeing #fiberarts #fibrearts #artistlife

A Macomber CP ("Baby Mac") doesn't take up any more floor space than a rigid-heddle loom on its stand. Just sayin'... 😉 #enabler

American Made Yarn Producers - Our Daily Craft These American made yarn producers are great to know about if you want to reduce your carbon footprint and buy more locally.

Here's a nice list of tariff-free yarns. #supportyourfibershed #shoplocal #weaving #spinning #fiberarts #fibrearts www.ourdailycraft.com/2025/01/13/a...

/2 suppliers. It's not nice, and reflects poorly on the person doing the bad-mouthing.

I've been doing business with the owners of Georgia Yarn Company for about 20 years, and they are friendly, honest, and knowledgeable. The fiber arts community knows their reputation, and is happy to do business with them. OTOH, the fiber arts community doesn't really like people who slam their 1/🧵

American Made Yarn Producers - Our Daily Craft These American made yarn producers are great to know about if you want to reduce your carbon footprint and buy more locally.

*Sigh.* Had you bothered to LOOK at what Michael sells, you'd see that he sells Georgia-grown cotton yarns. But you didn't look. Just as you didn't bother to Google "American-made yarns." If you had, you might have found this list of suppliers. www.ourdailycraft.com/2025/01/13/a...

Sorry, but you're wrong: Not ALL yarns are imported. Georgia Yarn Co. & Brown Sheep Yarn Co. are just 2 of many companies producing/selling US-made yarns. #knowyoursuppliers #dontspreadrumors

A jumble of silk scraps in a rainbow of colors and a variety of patterns including stripes and dots.

Where others see #pieces, I see possibilities. #silkscraps #weaving #fiberarts #somethingfromnothing #artistlife #BlueSkyArtShow

The things one does for the one they love. "Honey, could you possibly cut my hair & trim my beard for tomorrow's gig? Please?" I sat him on a kitchen stool on the patio & gave him a haircut & beard trim in less than 20 minutes. As it was getting dark. #artistlife #pandemicskills

That's a really good book for learning art yarns. Sarah taught an advanced spinners' workshop on designing/producing art yarns just after the book came out, so I spent a day learning about art yarns, including that I'm too uptight & finicky to produce really great art yarns. 😆