Jacey and Ford introduce the episode, Patsy, and Amelia.

Patsy teaches us how to dress a cone distaff and wet-spin flax. She starts with how to tell the difference between the root and blossom end of flax and encourages you to try spinning from both and see what works best for you. Then she moves into how to easily tie up and dress a distaff, the use o...

Patsy walks us through dressing a basket and a ponytail distaff as well as spinning from each.

Patsy teaches us to ply linen, talks about scouring, other plant fibers, and how to find a lost end.

Patsy shows us the intricacies of skeining linen (including an endearing niddy noddy song), her handy trick for hitch-tying a skein, and tying extra tie through your loops. She then makes sure we know how to scour linen yarn and tells us why it's important to do so.

Want to learn hour to scour and beetle your flax? Patsy gives a great lesson on both. She starts with the scouring recipe and process and ends by showing you the four post-scouring liquids to demonstrate how very dirty flax can be. She talks about how to hang your linen yarns to dry and then how ...

Wonder what you can make with your handspun linen yarns? Patsy shows all her pretty linens, woven and crochet!

Patsy introduces us to hemp and how to spin it, along with how to replace a drive band. Starting with spinning hemp from the fold (along with how to pull the correct length off for spinning) with what she calls "an open twist" to show you what happens when you let twist between your hands (you ge...

Patsy dives into the history and uses of hemp fiber along with how it's has struggled because of its "crazy cousin". She covers hemps history, preparations available to spinners, different grades and fineness, bleaching, commercial and home-dyeing.

Amelia talks about playing with new fibers (in this case, several different plan fibers) on spindles. She starts with looking at your fiber, thinking about the yarn you want, and then using that information to help choose a spindle. She moves on with a quick lesson on how to spin a leader, starti...

Get to know the charming, intelligent, and talented Patsy Z as she sits for tea with Jacey.