Episode 3: Jacqui Fink & Julia Billings – Local fiber, Natural Dyeing, Dreams and Revelations

Summary: I’m very excited to share the third episode of the Woolful podcast. Today we get to meet two incredibly talented women, both diverse and coincidently Austrailian, <a href="http://littledandelion.com" target="_blank">Jacqui Fink of Little Dandelion</a> and <a href="http://woollenflower.com" target="_blank">Julia Billings of Woollenflower</a>.<br> <a href="www.knitbot.com/stashbot"></a><br> Sponsor: This week’s episode is sponsored by <a href="http://www.knitbot.com/stashbot" target="_blank">StashBot</a>. Buy yarn smarter with Hannah Fettig’s new iOS app StashBot. If you find a yarn you can’t live without, StashBot will help you determine how much you should buy. It will pay for itself again and again as it saves you from purchasing more skeins of yarn than you need. Just as importantly it will keep your stash useful as you will be sure to have enough yarn to knit the projects you would like.  StashBot will soon be available for Android and is also available in print.  For more information head to <a href="http://www.knitbot.com/stashbot" target="_blank">www.knitbot.com/stashbot</a>.<br> <a href="http://woolful.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/knitbot.jpg"></a><br> Fiber folk 1: Julia is a horticulturalist, experimenter and explorer of natural dyes, and purveyor of all things wool. Her knowledge of plants and natural dyeing was inspiring not only to continue natural dyeing, but around the foraging and identification of plants. You can find her at <a href="http://woollenflower.com" target="_blank">woollenflower.com</a> and on Instagram <a href="http://instagram.com/woollenflower" target="_blank">@woollenflower</a>.<br> <a href="http://woolful.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/juliabillings.jpg"></a><br> Man on the street: For this week’s “Man on the Street” I asked a couple of fiber enthusiasts to answer the following question, “What is one way knitting or another fiber art has changed your life?” We had some amazing replies from Tiffany (<a href="http://instagram.com/knittingfarmer" target="_blank">@knittingfarmer</a>) and Sam (<a href="http://instagram.com/samanthamaylamb" target="_blank">@samanthamaylamb</a>)<br> Fiber folk 2: Over the past few months I’ve heard some amazing stories, but none quite as moving as our next guest Jacqui Fink’s story. A few years ago, Jacqui had a transformational experience that opened doors to her future she never even imagined possible, and all leading to this spectacular thing called unspun wool. You can find her at <a href="http://littledandelion.com" target="_blank">littledandelion.com</a> where she just launched her online shop full of extreme knitting yarn and needles and on Instagram <a href="http://instagram.com/jacquifink" target="_blank">@jacquifink</a><br> <a href="http://woolful.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/jacquifink.jpg"></a><br> Giveaway: The winner of last week’s giveaway, sponsored by <a href="http://monarchknitting.com" target="_blank">Monarch Knitting</a> is Allison from <a href="http://Fieldwonderful.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Fieldwonderful.blogspot.com</a>. You’ve won two skeins of Woolfolk’s Far yarn and the Knop hat pattern! Congratulations!<br> Our giveaway this week is a little different, but just as special. I spent last week in <a href="http://woolful.com/category/idaho-fiber-mill/" target="_blank">Idaho at our ranch</a> where we converted an old milking parlor into a dye studio. It was our first time using the studio, and it was a surreal experience to dye with black walnut from our property and watch the beautiful caramel color emerge. Sooooo, this week we’re giving away those 3 skeins of naturally dyed <a href="http://www.toltyarnandwool.com/products/snoqualmie-valley-yarn" target="_blank">Snoqualmie Valley Yarn</a> created by Tolt Yarn and Wool, and naturally dyed by myself. To enter this giveaway, visit the giveaway post on Instagram <a href="http://instagram.com/woolful" target="_blank">@woolful </a>and tag a friend ...